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November 3, 2006
Quiz: Stock Ticker Letters
As an entirely unrelated part of another recent project I was messing around with a list of stock tickers. So, some quiz questions. As always, highlight after the question mark on each line to see the answer:- Which first-letter is most popular among U.S. stock tickers? "C" is most popular. "A", which I thought would be most popular, comes in second place.
- Which first-letter of a ticker is the most unpopular? "Y" with only 15 companies using it as the first letter of their ticker.
- Which first letter is the most sought after, in percentage terms? In other words, if you go after a different ticker than the first letter of your company name, what letter do you go to? "X" is way ahead as the most popular.
- Which first letter is the least sought after, in percentage terms? In other words, if you go after a different ticker than the first letter of your company name, what letter do you tend to avoid? "Q" is way ahead as the most abandoned.
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There are reasons for everything, grasshopper. And when you can snatch this pebble from my hand, etc.
your roll overs don't work in firfox 1.5ish on a linux platform.
I went to my microsquish machine and they did not work in firefox 1.5 or 2.0.
I am not 6 months not opening IE I would like to stay that way.
I have no idea what the meaning or value in this one is.
You do OWN the "mouse-over quiz" vertical, however. Jordan had the tongue, Tiger has the red shirt...
TOmmy -- That's interesting. THey work fine in Firefox here on Windows.
there are reasons for this actually