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Is There A Minimum Amount Of Stock You Have To Purchase?

Lets say I want to buy stock in a company. Do I have to buy a minimum amount of shares (like 100)? Could I buy 1 share?
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Is The Stock Market Running 24/7 Or Does It Run Only For A Certain Amount Of Time Each Day?

Each stock exchange sets its own trading hours. Ditto for commodities exchanges, forex, etc. No one exchange operates 24/7, but different exchanges/markets have links, or you can trade on different exchanges and thereby get 24/7 trading or fairly close to it, except weekends.
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Is The Earnings Per Share (eps) Amount Given To The Investor By Being Added Onto The Price?

Is this following example right? A company had $2.00 in earnings per share for Q1, but when it reported the earnings investors sold a lot of it, and the price would have dropped $3.00 but since there was a $2.00 earnings per share the share only dropped by $1.00. Or am I completely missing something [...]
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How Different Can The Market Price Of A Stock Be Than My Stop-loss Amount?

I’m reading up on day-trading, and one of the warnings that I keep coming across is the threat of having a stop-loss order at one amount, but the market price can be far different which might drastically increase my loss. I understand the pricipal, but I’d like some info on just how how much of [...]
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