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Most active stocks aren't the ones excelling in Couch to 5K...so what are they? Hit play to find out.

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finance a la shmoop what does most active mean all right people there's a

00:07

race every day all the stocks in all the markets line up at the starting line [stock lining up for track race]

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then at 9:30 a.m. New York time blam gun goes off and well the stocks are off [gun fires]

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running one trade between a buyer and a seller is a laugh and all the stocks run

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those laps as best as they can at the end of the day italia is made and the [stock running laps]

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winner with the most laps gets put into that day's pantheon of most active [stock tally]

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stocks the list looks something like this yes there are winners and there are [stock list document]

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losers sorry there Polka masters calm just keeping it real so what usually [Tesla wins race, Polkamaster.com loses]

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makes a stock most active well a bunch of things a quarterly earnings

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announcement that surprises on the upside or the down or an announcement of

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a secondary offering of stock or a hostile takeover bid by a competitor or

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goog or a mention on Oprah yeah that usually helps or steroids yeah they help

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too but they're not legal unless you know you're on the russian biathlon team [pills, Russian skier]

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yeah so yeah the most active stocks are these guys like Charlie Sheen and Trump

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they're all about the winning yeah winning

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