'Stop Buy Order'

In a previous article I had explained the significance of 'Stop Sell Order'. In this article I will be explaining the details of a 'Stop Buy Order'.

As the name says, 'Stop Buy Order' is useful for a trader who wants to 'buy' a particular stock.

Similar to 'Stop Sell Order', 'Stop Buy Order' has 3 factors:
 

1. Stop price - the price at which you want to your stop order to become a limit order.
2. Stop limit - your 'bid price' for the limit order. (optional most of the time)
3. Quantity - the number of shares you would like to buy.

When the 'Stop Price' is triggered, the 'Stop Order' becomes a 'Market Order'. But in the presence of a 'Stop Limit' price, when the 'Stop Price' is triggered, the 'Stop Order' becomes a 'Limit Order'.

Suppose the price of a stock increases. By placing a 'Stop Buy Order' we can avoid paying a higher price. Suppose a stock is trading at $10.00 and you are deciding whether to buy at this price or wait for it to decrease further. However, there is a possibility that the stock price goes higher than $10.00. In this scenario you might end up paying a price which is much higher than $10.00. However, by placing 'Stop Buy Order', with a Stop price of $10.10, Stop limit of $10.10 and a quantity of 100, the maximum price you may pay for the stock is $10.10!

We do not need to keep checking the prices all the time to place a buy order. Stop order will take care of it.

Zillow (Z) !

Zacks named Z as the bull of the day on Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:35:01 GMT (Zacks bull of the day). Z trades in NASDAQ stock exchange.

This article provides a summary of Z at the close of today's market, such as the summary of Z's activity during the day, and in the past 52 weeks, recommendations/opinions by different analysts and researchers, earning estimates, and recent news articles which talk about this particular symbol.

Zacks has a short term rank of 1 and a long term recommendation of Outperform for Z. Z closed at 81.48 on Mon, 14 Oct 2013, with a change of -0.87 (-1.06 %). The volume of shares traded was 909,550, which is a change of -458,144 compared to its average volume of 1,367,694. 52 week low and 52 week high of Z are 23.00 and 103.00 (Zacks).

According to Yahoo Finance, the mean price target of Z is 87.36 based on the opinion of 11 brokers. Moreover, the low and high price targets of Z are 50.00 and 115.00. Based on Analyst opinions, this week's mean recommendation for Z is 2.6, where 1.0 indicates strong buy and 5.0 indicates strong sell.

StockScouter, a stock rating sytem, gave a rating of 3 for Z, in a rating scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is considered the best.

Recent articles related to Z (Yahoo Finance RSS) as of the date of this blog post:

1. Bull Of The Day: Zillow
2. A Small Tech Stock With Huge Real-Estate Upside
3. Investors Take Note: The Worst Is Still Ahead

An alternative to changing remote proxy servers used by Ultrasurf

Ultrasurf is an awesome way to use remote proxies via a locally created proxy server. As mentioned in my previous post, you can either set the browser proxy settings to use 127.0.0.1 (localhost) as the IP address and 9666 as the port number. This is the default setting used by Ultrasurf, which acts as a local proxy server and connects to remote proxies.

There could be situation where we have such a requirement. Suppose you are accessing a website via Ultrasurf and the website blocks the specific proxy IP address. In this case you will have to change the remote proxy server used by Ultrasurf. One way of doing this is via the Ultrasurf user interface, which gives an option of choosing one of three servers. However, it is not easy to programmatically change the remote proxy server Ultrasurf uses.




Note that, if you close the Ultrasurf application and reopen it, most of the time it connects to a new remote proxy server. Hence, a solution for the above problem is to close and reopen the Ultrasurf application as and when you need to change the remote proxy server used by Ultrasurf. This can be achieved from the following simple python code.

Herbalife (HLF)

Zacks named HLF as the bull of the day on Wed, 02 Oct 2013 07:22:01 GMT (Zacks bull of the day).

This article provides a summary of HLF at the close of today's market, such as the summary of HLF's activity during the day, and in the past 52 weeks, recommendations/opinions by different analysts and researchers, earning estimates, and recent news articles which talk about this particular symbol.

Zacks has a short term rank of 1 and a long term recommendation of Neutral for HLF. HLF closed at 73.09 on Wed, 02 Oct 2013, with a change of 0.25 (0.34 %). The volume of shares traded was 2,591,187, which is a change of -760,216 compared to its average volume of 3,351,403. 52 week low and 52 week high of HLF are 24.24 and 74.94 (Zacks).

According to Yahoo Finance, the mean price target of HLF is 76.50 based on the opinion of 6 brokers. Moreover, the low and high price targets of HLF are 69.00 and 92.00. Based on Analyst opinions, this week's mean recommendation for HLF is 1.6, where 1.0 indicates strong buy and 5.0 indicates strong sell.

StockScouter, a stock rating sytem, gave a rating of 2 for HLF, in a rating scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is considered the best.

Recent articles related to HLF (Yahoo Finance RSS) as of the date of this blog post:

1. Pershing���s Ackman Moves to Soften Risk on Herbalife Pyramid Bet
2. Bull Of The Day: Herbalife
3. The Man Bill Ackman Really Needs To Worry About In The Herbalife War