RE: Hopeful21 Apr 2022 13:23
MacF1,
Absolutely!! The MM's MUST keep a float of stock in order to ensure they can maintain an orderly market when news hits. People do not just buy through matched trades on SETS, they also buy from and sell to MM's, either through SETS or outside of it.
The usual garbage about 'for every buyer there is a seller' is just that, garbage.
When the MM's float drops, they increase the price, and vice versa. This is how the market has always operated. The buyer/seller on the other end of your trades can easily be an MM, which is someone with no interest in the stock, no sentiment for the stock whatsoever, so calling them a buyer or seller is missing the point, all they are doing is ensuring liquidity and making some money by doing that.