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Where can I find time and sales?
Time and sales data is most frequently accessed via a trading platform and is displayed in the time and sales window. The window displays a running tally of trades for shares of a particular stock in a table format.
What is tick data in trading?
What Is a Tick? A tick is a measure of the minimum upward or downward movement in the price of a security. A tick can also refer to the change in the price of a security from one trade to the next trade. Since 2001 and the advent of decimalization, the minimum tick size for stocks trading above $1 is one cent.
What data is not included in time and sales?
Some time and sales displays also include additional information such as the current bid and ask prices, the order book (or level two information), or the cumulative volume, but this additional information is not technically part of the time and sales.
What is time and sales thinkorswim?
Times and Sales is a thinkorswim gadget that provides you with more in-depth data on a specified instrument. By default, the gadget will also display the price and the volume of each recorded transaction. The list of records is refreshed every five minutes and transactions older than that are removed.
What is timetime and sales (the tape)?
Time and sales, also known as “the tape”, is a record of all stock transactions throughout the trading day and typically includes trade size, price and time of trade. The tape got its name from the mechanical ticker tapes used in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What is a ticker tape and how does it work?
The tape got its name from the mechanical ticker tapes used in the late 1800s and early 1900s. These machines used to print stock prices on small strips of paper, looking like the picture below:
Where can I find timetime and sales data?
Time and sales data is most frequently accessed via a trading platform, and is displayed in the time and sales window. The window displays a running tally of trades for shares of a particular stock in a table format.
What does time and sales data indicate about a stock?
For example, time and sales data would indicate that a buy order for +100 shares of XYZ stock was made on the NASDAQ at 12:31:54 EST for $65.84, which is 1 cent higher than the previous trade. Investors follow a number of different strategies and tools when deciding which stocks to buy and sell.