RE: More delayed trades1 Feb 2021 20:29
The sell off...
I was thinking that the sell of was mainly due to large investors (II's) dumping stock. I cant prove this one way or the other, all I am doing is reading the transactions as they happened, and trying to speculate on the other details. Mainly out of curiosity.
Tonight I used the log from the 29th, when the SP dropped from 978 to 895 over the day. (Results day).
I divided the trades in to 4 groups based on volume.
under 1000 shares.
1000 - 5000
5000 - 10000
over 10000
I then counted the occurrence of each group. I do not count the UT or any delayed trades after 4.30 pm.
Under 1000 = 3,836 trades
1000 - 5000 = 590
5000 - 10000 = 24
Over 10000 = 9
I then summed the volume of each group showing total shares traded in that particular group. I am unable to determine buys or sells (still working on that). That isn't part of the info you get from the stock exchange.
Under 1000 = 1M shares
1000 - 5000 = 0.5M
5000 - 10000 = 154k
Over 10000 = 155k
I do not know how many of the small trades, could be bits of larger trades (icebergs), but I was expecting to see more large trades. I thought it might reveal II selling, but it does not. Also, I likely missing some of the trades as I discussed in my last below below.
It probably doesn't reveal anything, but you could surmise that the sell off may have been more retail investors than II's. The average small trade was for 268 shares (circa £2.5k).
Of the 9 large ones, I felt 2 of them may have been buys. When others on here say that the price is being dropped to get stop losses etc, I think its just a flood of volume hitting the order book. If someone dumps a medium sized sell for say 20,000 shares and the average small buy is about 10 times smaller, you can see why the price drops as we have to suck them all up as I say, before the price has any chance of going up. Also typically there are around 2 - 4 trades each minute once the rush in the morning slows down. I wonder if when people say they cant buy, is it because the brokers get overwhelmed with orders, rather than refuse to sell any? They profit from each trade what ever. I learnt on GDR, that PEEL made more money selling GDR than GDR did in business.
These results were probably predicable, but somewhat surprising to me. I guess it has just sold off, for all of the reasons being discussed in the other thread right now.