what is a quoted price 
a quoted price is the most recent price at which an investment or any other type of asset has traded the quoted price of investments such as stocks bonds commodities and derivatives changes constantly throughout the day as events occur that affect the financial markets and the perceived value of various investments the quoted price represents the most recent bid and ask prices that buyers and sellers were able to agree on understanding a quoted pricethe quoted prices of stocks are displayed on an electronic ticker tape which shows up to the minute information on trading price and trading volume for most major exchanges trading hours are 9 30 a m to 4 p m est the ticker tape shows the stock indicated by a one to four letter stock symbol or ticker symbol e g aapl for apple inc or tgt for target corporation the number of shares traded the price they traded at in decimal form whether the quoted price represents an increase or decrease from the last quoted price and the amount of the change in price some of the most prominent exchanges in the world are the new york stock exchange nyse the nasdaq the london stock exchange lse and the tokyo stock exchange tse quoted price and bid and ask pricesthe quoted price represents the most up to date agreement between buyers and sellers or the bid and ask prices the bid price is an offer that an investor trader or dealer makes in order to purchase a security commodity or currency the bid price is the highest price a prospective buyer is willing to pay to acquire the security or asset quote services and stock tickers will generally display the highest bid price available for the security the bid price is opposed by the ask price which is the lowest amount of money the seller will accept for an asset or security an ask price also often referred to as the offer price is always higher than the bid price the difference between the bid price and the ask price is the spread the liquidity of the security is often indicative of its spread size low liquidity stocks will often have a wide spread stocks that are especially liquid will have small spreads often just pennies apart or even a fraction of a penny 