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Stock quotes provides details about the price and price changes of a stock at a time. They are recognized as the primary tool for any stock traders and valuable for technical analysis and stock picking.

Stock quotes from different portals/sources can be displayed differently. They can be just simple last price of trade or be details having data about price change, daily trading range, yearly trading range, daily and average traded volume, dividend yielded, EPS, P/E ratio, market capitalization, closing price, and highest and lowest traded price etc. Each stock quote have two values the bid and ask price, the difference between them is the spread.

Stock quotes can be historical, delayed and real-time. Historical stock quotes provide valuable information about the position of the stock in the past history, which is useful to determine the stock market cycles and periodical trends. Delayed stock quotes are the common free stock quotes provided by a variety of financial portals, market websites, and journals and papers. They are so called because there is a delay of 15 to 20 minutes in getting the quotes - useful for small scale traders and position traders. Real-time or live or streaming stock quotes are stock quotes with less than a minute delay. They are provided by special quote sites or through trading systems as free or for fee and are important for day traders.

This information is provided by NobleTrading.com, a worldwide brokerage firm, offering direct access services for online stocks trading, options trading, futures trading, commodities trading and forex trading on a variety of trading software platform.