Stock Price Charts

how to understand stock charts??

hi. what does the volume number indicate in a stock chart? i see it changes when the stock price changes! what does this indicate? how much stocks are issued by each company and why? can all stocks be bought? what happens if there are no more stocks to sell for a company, is this possible?

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1. Volume means the number of stocks trading at the present time. The reason the stock price changes when volume changes is that transactions are being made for certain prices. If the prices come in higher than the previous transactions, the stock price increases. Volume will still change if investors are selling stock. The price of the stock will generally fall when there are more sell orders coming in than buy orders. If a company wants to raise capital for special projects or additional funding/financing, they will consult with an investment banker to determine what stock price they will ask for in an initial public offering. Once all the shares are bought in the IPO, the stock price is then determined by supply and demand on the secondary market. Yes, all stocks (common) can be bought if the company is public. It would be very difficult for a company to run out of stock for someone to buy. There are investors buying and selling stock every minute. If you want to buy, there is always someone out there wanting to sell (and vice versa). One exception would be a company that wants to take their company private and buys up all the stock. In this case, they will most likely consult with an investment banker again to determine a fair market value for the entire volume. They will buy the public stock at that total price and no more shares will be available for the public to purchase.
2. for share details .........i got from this only.......... i hope this will help u.....
3. Really, if you know nothing about stocks and the stock market, asking a question on Yahoo answers is not the way to learn. Go to Barnes and Noble or Amazon.com and buy a book or go to the public library and find books on the basics of the structure of corporations and their stocks and read it.