Stock markets and shares have a great influence on people and investors in this fast-changing world. People see the stock markets as a platform to invest their hard-earned money in and earn handsomely. We have live examples throughout the world of people who have become millionaires through investment in stocks. Stock markets in this world run on several complex things, factors, and fundamentals. However, there are many basic factors that need to be known about the stock market in order to invest in it. One of that is knowing and following the real-time stock quote.

Basics of real-time stock quotes
The real-time stock quote is the price of a security at that instant in time.

In most of the websites or other media and apps, the price of the security displayed is usually delayed. Sometimes, they are delayed for as long as up to 20 minutes, whereas the real-time stock quotes are those that are displayed with zero delay. There exist two factors in the real-time stock quotes. They are the bid price and the ask price. The sellers will receive a specific price for the stock, which is called as the bid price, and there is the price for which the buyer must pay and that is called as the ask price. The real times quotes are available in several websites including the website of NASDAQ.

The real-time stock quotes of all public companies in the US are displayed on the website. There are many other websites too to check the real-time quote but people who trade need to check the authenticity of the website.

One needs be known about the basics of the real-time quotes. They are listed below:
Stock symbol: Stock symbol is a particular symbol assigned to a stock. They will be always unique. The character of the stocks changes as of the stock exchange. The NASDAQ stocks has 5 letters, while New York stock exchange has stocks of characters ranging from one to three.
NASDAQ Last Sale Price: They are the price in which the stock is traded during the market hours.
Net change: Net change is the difference in price of the stock in the last sale price and the official closing price of the previous day.
Percent change: It is the official percent change that is represented in percentage value of the last sale price of the stock changed from the previous day’s closing price.
NASDAQ Share Volume: It displays the number of stocks that are traded on the list during the regular market hours.
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