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Experts please - how do the markets work?? (WORK)     

Kivver - 18 Jan 2006 14:25

How can there be a day of buying and very little selling and the price doesnt move. Today (so far) there has been over milion and a half buys of iqe (iqe) a 100,000 sells of shares and price hasn't moved!!!! How does that happen?????

Gausie - 18 Jan 2006 22:07 - 7 of 7

This comes up time and time again.

There is no such thing as a buy without a sell, and no such thing as a sell without a buy.

If you buy - then someone has sold. If you sell, then someone has bought.

MAM classifies trades as buys and sells because there is a demand among less sophisticated traders for this information. But it IS MEANINGLESS.

Kivver - you have observed that there is no correlation between 'buys', 'sells' and prices. You're right.

G
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