RE: ***Up 8.1% now folks!!!***3 Nov 2023 00:42
VincentVega.
I checked all this out some years ago, maybe the time frame has been changed. It's on the London Stock Exchange site in the "small print" so to speak.
However the bid price is the ***all important price to watch***.
The ask can be varied by the market makers...... affects the %up and down don't forget. They can ask more and not get it for hours, then drop the ask. The bid on the other hand is set in stone.
The bid price is the minimum you will get for a share sale guaranteed. WATCH THE BID PRICE, the only one you can be sure of.
So if the bid SUDDENLY DROPS a lot and not much seems to be happening............you got it, an unshown big sell has gone through, even though you see nothing in the trades reported. Then some days later you will see it mixed in with other trades during the day, or shown after the market has closed. Yes, masked and totally legal.
All IMHO.