RE: Artificial price on google15 Apr 2021 16:52
As TFG says,
Google is actually live prices. but shows the last traded price and not the actual price, so can be very misleading.
L2 can be a good guide, but even then, that is the price they will sell you shares over and above the level that they are dealing at. (EMS) - Set by the London Stock Exchange) - and then Each MM chooses the minimum number of shares that they will deal with.
I use the L2 live trade list - and whist each broker sets their own, you can gauge a trend, and what the current prices are.
Watch it long enough and you can watch the pressure build before the next share price change.
However one should not get to hooked on what is a "buy" and a "sell" - they are just trades and a computer is taking a guess at what the trade is. they can, and will let the price run to the wrong side of the mid-price so that every trade looks like a buy or a sell and it gets miss printed.
can be mesmerizing sometimes, especially when it gets going and the MM do some work.
GL - BR