Okay, I'm sort of new to trading stocks, but now quite. I currently trade through Sharebuilder, even though I'm beginning to not like them so much. A lot of "fine print", if you know what I mean. Anyways, here's my problem:
I bought a stock, 5,000 shares at .09 cents. I meant to buy at .05 cents, and that's what my confirmation said before I placed the order, but I didn't realize that the quote of the stocks are 20 mins delayed. Sharebuilder doesn't offer actual real-time quotes, imagine that. Anyways, my account ended up a couple of hundred dollars short, mainly because it still processed as 5,000 shares at $0.09. Anyways, I put a limit order in to sell all of the shares when they hit $.010, low and behold, it hit 0.10 today, but my shares haven't been sold. Called SB, and they said for large orders, it could take a couple of days over a few different trades, and that I would be charged $11.95 for each trade.
Is there a better place or way to do these types of trades? Thanks!
In every market transaction there's a buyer and a seller. Just because at some point today there was a buyer at that price doesn't mean that there's currently someone that wants to buy (your) shares at that price. Also, when or if someone does decide that they want to buy your shares at .10, they won't necessarily want 5,000 shares. You could set your shares to sell all or nothing, meaning that unless someone wants 5,000 shares the trade will not execute. The advantage of course is that you don't get hacked to death with commissions. The disadvantage is if someone wants 4,999 shares your trade won't execute. With all of that said, penny stocks are a very dangerous game which I would STRONGLY advise against. If you want to gamble with cheap securities, learn a little bit about options and start trading out of the money calls and puts on companies you like and don't like respectively. Hope that helped.
One other thing, I use scottrade and am very happy with them.
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