Like, 20 minutes...or 15 minutes, why?
2006-10-28 08:07:51 · 8 answers · asked by adklsjfklsdj 6 in Business & Finance ➔ Investing
It's all about the MONEY!!! Many services (Yahoo, MSN, Marketwatch) will provide free stock quotes that are delayed by 15 or 20 minutes. However, for a price, they will provide stock quotes in real time. In essence, if you want the absolute latest quotes, they want you to pay them.
Truthfully, if you're simply monitoring stocks you own, there's no need to have real time quotes. Actually, real time quotes can be quite irritating. Stock prices can change by pennies every couple of seconds. Yahoo recently offered their real time stock quotes for free and I found myself turning it off whenever I logged on. I found it too hard to concentrate as the information kept changing every two seconds or so.
2006-10-28 08:38:49 · answer #1 · answered by Tom D 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Unless you are a professional day trader, you really won't need real time qoutes. Even professional swing traders like myself don't use real time quotes. Real time quotes definitely take up a lot more bandwidth from the exchanges and whoever is distributing it and if it is unnecessary for general users, then there is no point to go that far, right? For professional day traders who MUST have real time quotes, they will have to pay for the extra bandwidth, admin and things like that in the form of a fee.
HOWEVER, that being said, there are a lot of online brokers like optionsxpress.com that offers real time quotes for free, so if you must have real time quotes and you want them for free, you might want to check out optionsxpress.com . One thing though, they give free real time quotes only to individual accounts, not company accounts.
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2006-10-28 14:56:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of these answers have part of the reason. The real reason is that the quotes are property of the various exchanges and, as such, they charge a price for that information. Of course real time quote subscriptions are big business too, and why would you give a valuable product away for free when you can charge a premium for it!
2006-10-28 10:21:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is about money -- but it is actually the exchange (not Yahoo, Dow Jones, etc) that requires the delay. They charge extra for real time quotations because they are a monopoly and can get away with it.
2006-10-28 11:11:44 · answer #4 · answered by Ranto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To differentiate a product that has value, and a novelty.
Anyone who needs real-time quotes, is using it to make money, and are willing to pay for it.
2006-10-28 10:00:44 · answer #5 · answered by dredude52 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are free. You can get get real-time quotes, but you have to pay for it...
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2014-04-09 03:30:21 · answer #7 · answered by sakill 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to prevent you from buying then turn around and sell it in 5 min (the market would crash.
2006-10-28 08:16:51 · answer #8 · answered by jon_8ball 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋