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Investors increasingly access stock quotes online or on mobile devices, such as smartphones, rather than through print media, such as newspapers and magazines. A large number of Internet portals and websites offer delayed stock quotes at no charge, with real-time stock quotes generally restricted to paying subscribers.

Stock quotes can be presented with supplemental information and data, such as the high and low prices for given security that have been recorded over the course of the trading day. It may also show the change in the value of the security compared against the prior day’s closing price or the opening price of the current trading day. This difference in price might be shown as a percentage, revealing how much security has increased or declined in value. Analyst recommendations for a given security might also be presented with a stock quote. Such recommendations could be shown for hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly intervals.

Depending on the service and platform providing stock quotes, the information might strictly revolve around the current, latest pricing, or there can be expanded details such as metrics on the daily, weekly, monthly, and annual performance of the security. A stock quote can also include performance metrics on share prices for a multi-year period.

The pricing displayed with a stock quote reflects the buying and selling activity that influences the value of a given security. As each trading day unfolds, news and industry trends related to a security can affect the way investors choose to handle the shares. When beneficial updates are revealed, such as strong revenue and earnings reported by the company or positive test results for a product, the value of the shares can increase as more investors buy into the company. These shifts are reflected in the stock quotes that shareholders and other watchers of the company will use to make investment decisions.

Level 1 is a type of trading screen used with stock trading that displays the best bid-offer-volume quotes in real-time, or the national best bid and offer (NBBO). Level 1 quotes supply basic information that, for the most part, is more than sufficient for most investors, though some extremely active traders prefer order book and market depth information that can be found in higher-level quotes.

The U.S. stock market has three tiers of quotes: Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3. Looking at these quotes allows an investor to see how a specific stock is performing over time as well as where the market action is consolidating.

Level 1 quotes were relatively rare before the advent of the internet and online trading, but are now widely offered, and investors can access them for free. These quotes can be found on brokers" websites as well as across financial news and media portals, such as Morningstar or Yahoo! Finance. The information is often provided directly by an exchange or through a data broker intermediary.

Reliable Level 1 quotes aid investors in getting better prices for security purchases and sales, especially in fast-moving markets, where investors may prefer limit orders rather than market orders.

Level 1 quotes are often enough for long-term investors that don"t care too much about the price changing slightly. However, active traders looking to capture much smaller gains often use Level 2 quotes so they can gather more information.

Level 2 quotes provide more information than Level 1 quotes by adding market depth. Level 2 shows market depth typically up to the 5-10 best bid and offer prices.

Level 3 quotes add greater market depth by providing up to 20 of the best bid and ask prices. Users can also input data directly. These are primarily used by brokers and market makers.

All three levels of quotes build on top of each other. Level 1 quotes provide investors with the highest bid and the lowest ask prices for an individual stock. This will also represent the most recent data for the particular security based on the order book in an exchange. These types of quotes are the most common and are what individual investors see when they request information from their financial services company. Level 1 quotes provide the best real-time bid/ask for a given security.

Level 2 quotes go a step further by offering market depth to real-time quotes for each symbol. The added granularity helps active traders determine the magnitude of buy and sell orders at different prices (depth) and shows where most orders are concentrated among market makers (order book). This allows investors to identify the tightest, lowest bid/ask spread, which is important for larger investors who conduct high volume and high-frequency trades (HFT).

For example, suppose that an active trader sees that Acme Co. has a Level 1 quote showing a $5.00 price with a $5.10x100 ask and a $4.90x500 bid. The trader may assume there is strong support at $4.90 with an order for 500 shares and relatively weak resistance at $5.10 with just 100 shares on the market. However, Level 2 quotes may show an order for 1,000 shares at $5.11 and no orders below $4.90 until $4.85, which makes the stock look a lot weaker than the Level 1 quotes would imply.

There are also Level 3 quotes, which provide all the information and services of Level 1 and Level 2 quotes as well as granting an investor the ability to enter or change quotes, execute orders, and send out confirmations of trades. These types of quotes are reserved for registered brokers and financial institutions. Market makers, for example, participate in Level 3 quotes, which allows them to execute customer orders.

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China Display Optoelectronics Technology Holdings Limited, formerly TCL Display Technology Holdings Limited, is a Hong Kong-based investment holding company principally engaged in flat panel display products-related businesses. The main businesses of the Company include the manufacture and sales of liquid crystal display (LCD) modules for computers and mobile phones, as well as flat panel display products, such as thin-film transistor (TFT)-LCDs. The Company operates...More