Focus List
Categories: Managed Funds, Banking, Stocks, Investing
Brokerages selling research to clients spend a lot of time analyzing which stocks look like good buys, and which stocks, eh...don’t. Once they figure out the stocks they like (blindfolds and dartboards usually involved), they put them onto a marketing list known as a focus list. Buy this. Sell that.
But mainly, "Transact with us for our 3 cents a share commish."
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finance a la shmoop what does most active mean all right people there's a
race every day all the stocks in all the markets line up at the starting line [stock lining up for track race]
then at 9:30 a.m. New York time blam gun goes off and well the stocks are off [gun fires]
running one trade between a buyer and a seller is a laugh and all the stocks run
those laps as best as they can at the end of the day italia is made and the [stock running laps]
winner with the most laps gets put into that day's pantheon of most active [stock tally]
stocks the list looks something like this yes there are winners and there are [stock list document]
losers sorry there Polka masters calm just keeping it real so what usually [Tesla wins race, Polkamaster.com loses]
makes a stock most active well a bunch of things a quarterly earnings
announcement that surprises on the upside or the down or an announcement of
a secondary offering of stock or a hostile takeover bid by a competitor or
goog or a mention on Oprah yeah that usually helps or steroids yeah they help
too but they're not legal unless you know you're on the russian biathlon team [pills, Russian skier]
yeah so yeah the most active stocks are these guys like Charlie Sheen and Trump
they're all about the winning yeah winning