Liquidity is an important factor for stocks as it affects whether you can buy or sell your stocks easily and the difference between the buying and selling price, which is also known as the spread. If you purchase a stock which has a low liquidity, you may have problems selling it as there may be a lack of buyers. Even if there are buyers, they may not be willing to pay the price that you wish to sell your stock at, and this may result in an unfavourable selling price for you.
Monday, April 13
Liquidity
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Monday, April 13, 2009
I received quite a number of mails that ask me on what is liquidity so I thought it will be good to do a post regarding this. Liquidity with regards to stocks can be defined as the trading volume of the stock. You can also see it as a measure of the number of times which the stock change hands between buyers and sellers. I have taken a snapshot of some of the stocks listed on SGX which you can see below and highlighted the trading volume with a green rectangular box. In a nutshell, if the trading volume is low, it means that the stock has a poor liquidity and vice versa.
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