QuickQuote is an excellent tool to display real-time fundamental information for a single stock. QuickQuote is a key advantage tool for anyone involved in stock market trading. You'll find it near the center of the menu bar across the top of your Scottrader window.

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When you enter a valid stock symbol, QuickQuote will display more than 20 different fields of streaming real-time and fundamental data. Scottrader will fill every field in the QuickQuote window with available information, including Last, Bid, Ask, High and Low fields. Each detail is color-coded, so when a trade occurs or the stock quote is changed, based on previous data, any of the mentioned fields might change their colors. You'll know when a change has occurred, the moment it happens.

Here's what your QuickQuote may look like:

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You will see the company information next to the stock symbol, and the CUSIP # is listed at the bottom of the QuickQuote window, as shown above.

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To retrieve information on a stock once you have opened the QuickQuote window, type a valid stock symbol into the green field in the top left corner and press Enter or click on the Go button.

If the symbol is valid, Scottrader will fill every field in the QuickQuote window with available information on that particular stock. Last, Bid, Ask, High and Low fields are color-coded fields. What this means is, when the trade occurs or the quote is changed on the stock, based on previous data, any of the mentioned fields might change their colors.

For Last, Bid or Ask, the color might change to green or red; and for High and Low, the color might change to yellow. If the color has changed to red, the new data for the field came in lower than the previous displayed data. If the color changes to green, the new data for the field came in higher than the previous displayed data. The yellow color signifies the new data was higher for the High field or lower for the Low field.

Linked Charts

Many active traders can greatly benefit from using linked charts. Linked charts are an excellent feature to quickly pull charts every time you enter a different symbol into the QuickQuote window. To enable pulling a chart along with a QuickQuote, click on the Linked chart box located in the bottom right corner of the QuickQuote window.

If there is no quote in QuickQuote, the new linked chart will not show any charts until a valid symbol is entered into QuickQuote.

There is a limit to how many QuickQuote windows and charts a user can open. Please reference the usage number from the main quote screen, located in the top right corner:

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The maximum allowed quantities are listed here:

• Symbols - 20
• Quick Quotes - 5
• Charts - 5
• Top Ten - 1
• Option Chain - 1

Note: If the number of opened charts is at the maximum number, and you try to create a new linked chart, the new chart will not load.

Below are brief descriptions of all fields in the QuickQuote window:

Last - Last traded price

Bid - Current bid, a price where a market sell order would likely execute

Ask - Current ask, a price where a market buy order would likely get filled

High - Intra-day high price for the stock. Market hours only 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. ET

Low - Intra-day low price for the stock

Vol - Intra-day volume of shares traded

Last Tick - Displays the up or down of the last trade

PrevClose - Previous market day close price of the stock

BxA Sizes - Bid & Ask sizes at these prices. For example, 2X2 means 200 X 200 shares.

BxA Ids - Bid & Ask IDs show the exchange at which the current Bid and Ask prices were recorded

52WeekH - 52-week High for the stock

52WeekL - 52-week Low for the stock

$Chg - Intra-day net change from previous close

%Chg - Same as net change, except in percentages

LastSize - Last size of shares traded

Exch - Primary exchange for this stock

Shrs Out - (In millions) outstanding common shares

Yield­ - Annual rate of return on an investment, expressed in percentages

Time Traded - Time of the last trade

Annual Div - Annual Dividend, if any

Div PayDate - Pay date of the dividend, if any

LastQtr EPS - Earnings per share for the last quarter

CurrQtr EPS - Estimated earnings per share for current quarter

PE Ratio - Price over earnings ratio

Along with the QuickQuote information listed above, you can also retrieve fundamentals on the selected symbol by clicking the buttons titled Dividends, Earnings, BalanceSheet, Calcs, HistCalcs and Splits along the bottom of the window.

Dividends - Includes previous ex-dividend date and cash amount, cash pay, record and declare date, special amount, indicated annual dividend, estimated next ex-dividend dates and amounts. View Graphic

Dividend Currency:

• USD = United States currency
• CAD = Canadian currency
• N/A = Not Applicable

Earnings - Provides previous, current and future estimated EPS data along with five-year growth information. View Graphic

Balance Sheet - Provides a detailed balance sheet for the company selected.

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Calculations - Provides high date and price, low date and price, closing price information, YTD rate of return, moving average, average daily volume and average volatility. View Graphic

Historic Calculations - Provides information on call and put implied volatility and the volatility for one to 12 months. View Graphic

Splits - Provides detailed current and previous split information. View Graphic