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Closing bid is 407, offer is 409, share price is 405.
Can someone explain this for an amateur like me.

Buys outnumber sells 4:1, price is down???????

Strange game this 'investing'.....purchase of just over a thousand shares and price is up 4%. Hope someone buys another thousand!

Purchase of 1000+ shares drives price up over 4%.
Really?

Shares bought outnumber shares sold 4:1 yet price down 2 1/2 %
Are no. of shares bought and sold meaningless?
I see these contradictions all the time!

This makes accurate figures redundant.
Who is aware of mid price at any time of execution?

Sells = 21M, Buys = 57M, closing price down from yesterday???
Will never understand the market.....

Thanks for that explanation; I still scratch my head though.
In today's example people are buying the stock cheaply with no effect on the price going up.
Also, does every stock need a marketmaker? Can't the simple matching of a bid to offer automatically constitute a trade?
Stock today has ended well down though buys much stronger than sales. What will it take to raise the price?

People may be getting bored with my previous posts on this subject but here's another example.
Buys outnumbering sales (1:30 pm) by 5:2 yet price down 3%. Is this not another ****eyed case of supply and demand? Maybe I need an expert to explain how the mkt really works!!!

@ 12:07 buys outstripped sales by roughly 4:3, price down over 6% (??????).

This daily price tease is becoming most odd.
Price rise in the morning and pretty much through most of the day, then clobbered at the death.
Manipulation?

To The Old Bee, many thanks for opening my eyes to the AIM mkt. I can appreciate the need for MMs to sometimes maintain a price but in an actively traded stock I would think a genuine bid and ask could be established to reflect prices based on buy versus sale volumes. A day's exposure to a trading desk would be a real education.

How does a sale to buy ratio of approx 6:5 justify an 11.5 % price decline? Does price not depend on true supply / demand or am I being naive as to how prices are determined?

Buys outrade sales by 4:1 but price down over 5%.
Can anyone explain that?
Are prices not order driven?

Colour me dense perhaps but how can purchases be 4 times the number of sales and the price goes DOWN?
Trading volumes today would normally signal a run on the stock. Don't know why I'm investing.
I clearly haven't any understanding.

What am I, as an average punter missing with AJB's diving price? We had a stock WELL over £4, now it's arrived at £3.75. Appears again that investment logic is on its head.
Company is losing more 'friends' every day. Beats me!!

Buys outnumbered sales by 6:1. Price down almost 2%. How can the average punter have any belief in the basic workings of the market. If I want to sell my car and have six offers am I going to knock the price lower?
Company had excellent update and the stock thanks. Time to get rid of my few holdings. It's all in favour of the crooks running their books.

Bought 1.4million, sold 234 thousand....price dropped....does that not defy the idea of prices based on supply and demand? I'm now waiting for a day of massive selling for the price to rise!!!

Buys 436m, sold 370m, price falling like a stone. Where's the logic?

Far more shares bought than sold yet price down 43p. Pls educate me, is the price all down to a market-maker's whim rather than actual demand?