for those who actively trade stocks, is any one else experiencing a glitch that says you bought a particular share for a negative price, and sometimes those aren't even the prices you bought hem for?
This happens when you buy stock at a low price and somewhere down the road that stock splits a few times and increases in value. If you do see this then you did a super job picking that stock and buying it. : D Basically it means that the price you paid for that stock initially has been completely over taken by the worth and value the shares you currently own.
sounds like reverse split. Stock shrunk and shares were reverse split making it look like you paid more when you paid the same, you just have less shares now.
The other way to get the extreme numbers is to keep trading in that stock. If you buy 1000 shares at $1000 (total cost $1,000,000) and it later drops to $1 and you sell 999 shares (got only $999 back), it will say you are left with 1 share that cost you:
$1,000,000 - $999 = $999,001.
Even though you never paid $999,901 for a share, that is what your last share will list as the price you paid. In effect it is how much you have put into the stock net.