RE: Someone is confident8 Feb 2021 23:41
On days like today I tend to make a few hundred quid just playing to market makers by placing limit orders to counter their signals then rebuying straight away. My experience is irrelevant but no not a trader, I have worked with exchanges and payment networks before so have an interest in the mechanics.
That said, if you take emotions out of it and look at the cold hard trades. There is a trade of 1 million, if its a buy then market makers have lost 1mil shares, if its a sell they have 1 mil extra shares. Given its so many times greater than the NMS they won't just absorb it they will want to rebalance and that means selling or buying more themselves.
If they paid let's say 8p they will want to sell 1mil share for MORE than 8p to make a profit, they do this by raising the average sp and making everyone think people are buying as people follow the herd.
If on the other hand the MM sold 1m shares for 8p then they will be dry or short and will want to reload, but they don't want to pay you 8p,they want to make a profit, so they drop the sp, make it look red all day and encourage people to panic and sell, hit stop losses etc.
Its common sense and experience, I have been watching this and several other shares carefully for the past year and patterns always emerge.
Anyway good to see I'm living rent free in swimming head. It's like he cannot post on here without making some snide comment about or to me, very sad.