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How do you caluclate the average price you bought a stock Carmine782 09-02-2008
Posted by Carmine782 on September 2, 2008, 10:03 pm


Hey Eveyrone, I hear everyone talk about my average price i bought a
stock is (A number) How do you calcualte that, for example lets say i
bought 50 shares of Citi at 18.25 and then bought 100 shares at 16.25,
what would be my average price? I cant be 17.25 becuase i have more
shares on the lower price then the higher price, anyone know how to
caluclate that?

Write back
Thanks
Carmine


Posted by Blash on September 2, 2008, 10:26 pm


Carmine782 wrote on 9/2/08 10:03 PM:

> Hey Eveyrone, I hear everyone talk about my average price i bought a
> stock is (A number) How do you calcualte that, for example lets say i
> bought 50 shares of Citi at 18.25 and then bought 100 shares at 16.25,
> what would be my average price? I cant be 17.25 becuase i have more
> shares on the lower price then the higher price, anyone know how to
> caluclate that?
>
> Write back
> Thanks
> Carmine
>

Maybe cutting your 5th grade arithmetic class wasn't such a good
idea........


Posted by shortT on September 2, 2008, 11:02 pm


> Hey Eveyrone, I hear everyone talk about my average price i bought a
> stock is (A number) =A0How do you calcualte that, for example lets say i
> bought 50 shares of Citi at 18.25 and then bought 100 shares at 16.25,
> what would be my average price? =A0I cant be 17.25 becuase i have more
> shares on the lower price then the higher price, anyone know how to
> caluclate that?
>
> Write back
> Thanks
> Carmine

First purchase 50 shares time 18.25/share that is $912.50
Second purchase 100 shares times 16.25/share that is $1625
so the total you spent is $2537.50 now divide that by the total number
of shares (150)
and you get $16.917 per share. This is your average.

I can not understand people that will take the time to reply and poke
fun when
for roughly the same amount of time they can help someone out. Go
frikin figure.

shortT


Posted by Nomen Nescio on September 2, 2008, 11:50 pm



>I can not understand people that will take the time to reply and poke
>fun when
>for roughly the same amount of time they can help someone out. Go
>frikin figure.
>
>shortT

I can't understand how someone with less than 5th grade math skills
thinks he should be trading stocks.
But I'm glad they do. <evil grin>




Posted by shortT on September 3, 2008, 10:10 pm


>
> >I can not understand people that will take the time to reply and poke
> >fun when
> >for roughly the same amount of time they can help someone out. Go
> >frikin figure.
>
> >shortT
>
> I can't understand how someone with less than 5th grade math skills
> thinks he should be trading stocks.
> But I'm glad they do. <evil grin>

LOL <evil grin>

shortT


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