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Review the Pricing History for Shares of a Company’s Stock Using BMO InvestorLine

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It’s usually a good idea to do a quick review of how a stock has been trading before entering a purchase order. Some stocks are thinly traded and barely change price but when they do it can be in large jumps. For example, CWL dropped from over $1 to about $0.75 a share in five trading days, but only sold a few thousand shares when it did. Other stocks, like TD can bounce up and down $1.50 on any given trading day and trade hundreds of thousands of shares. Here’s how to check the price history for a specific equity using BMO InvestorLine.

How to Check the Price History for an Equity Using BMO InvestorLine

  1. Go to BMO InvestorLine at: https://www.bmoinvestorline.com/
  2. To sign in to your BMO InvestorLine account/s:
    1. In the User ID or Account # field, type your account number or
      if you have grouped your accounts under one User ID, type your User ID.
    2. In the Password field, type your password.
    3. Click on the Go button.
  3. Under the Quotes & Tools tab, click on Quotes.
  4. In the Symbol field, enter the ticker symbol for the company.
    For example, I typed BNS for the Bank of Nova Scotia.
  5. Click on the Go button.
  6. Review the day’s information about bid, ask, high, low, open and previous close.
    NOTE that all price information on this screen is 15- to 20-minute delayed. You will only see the current or spot price when you are in the Buy Order screen.
  7. Look at the 52-week high and low, the EPS and P/E ratio.
  8. There’s a handy little chart to the right that shows how the stock has been trading today.
    I can see at a glance that BNS took a 25 cent per share dive after the opening of trading but has since rebounded and is now trading within a very narrow range.
  9. Click on the 5 day; 1 month; 6 months; 1 year and 5 years tabs to see the chart for the various time periods.
    For example, a review of the chart for BNS for 1 year shows that last year it climbed significantly through December to March, then peaked and has fallen. In early May it began to climb again. It has not yet fallen to last summer’s prices.
  10. A look at the five year price history also shows a tendency for this stock to bounce around quite a bit. It’s currently trading near its all time highs.
    Do I want to buy or wait and hope for a pull back?
    Do I want to only buy part of a position now, and pay a second commission to buy another part a few months from now?
    I need to decide these things BEFORE I place my purchase order.
  11. When your review is complete, click on the Sign Out link.
  12. For increased security, close your browser session.

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Checking the Current Real Time Price for an Equity Using CIBC Investor’s Edge

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Twenty-minute delayed quotes are fine if you are watching a stock that barely moves in price all day. But there are times when you are curious about a stock that’s about as flighty as a monarch butterfly on high fructose nectar. You can use your CIBC Investor’s Edge account to check what the stock is really selling for right this minute.

To Check the Up to the Second Price for Shares Using CIBC Investor’s Edge

  1. Sign on to your CIBC Investor’s Edge account.
    1. Go to CIBC Investor’s Edge at: https://www.investorsedge.cibc.com/ie/index.html
    2. To sign on to your Investor’s Edge account/s:
    3. In the User ID field, type your User ID.
    4. In the Password field, type your password.
    5. Click on the Sign On button.
  2. From the list on the left side of the screen, click on the Trading link.
  3. In the Symbol field, type the trading symbol for the company you are interested in.
    For example, I typed: TD
  4. Click to select the radio button beside the desired country, Cdn or US.
  5. Click on the Get Real Time Quote button.
    On the right side of the screen, a small chart will display the current price and how much it is up or down since the open price.
    It will give the hour and minute and second of the last trade.
  6. You can update the price by clicking on the Get Real Time Quote button.
    You have to keep clicking it if you want to see the most recent price.
    For an actively traded stock like TD, the price can change several times a minute.
  7. When you’re done, click on the Sign Off link.
  8. For higher security, also close your Browser session.

What a Pain, Doesn’t Investor’s Edge Stream the Quotes?

There are no “streaming” or automatically updated real-time quotes available at the regular trading level of Investor’s Edge account.

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