RE: Double17 Nov 2022 16:16
no Rah, It was 3 years of day trading 30yr T-bils, 10yr Bunds and the Dow. (Its 40 odd years of buying and selling stocks generally .) Those indicis are so huge that there is no way (as no trading house have sufficient resource), they can be influenced which is one reason they are so heavily traded.
The "problem" with Aim and all ftse stocks that they can be manipulated by the buyers/sellers through the amount thrown at them but that is not to do with the MM's and again those trading houses would be in trouble if found out to be deliberately distorting the market. So again I am not naive to think nothing ever happens but at the same time I don't assume that every down turn in the SP is false either.
As I can't do anything about the buy/sell spread, and I know, for me, its neither transparent enough or accurate enough to profit from L2 data, I stopped looking at it and worrying about it years ago.
It perhaps should just be accepted, whether anyone likes it or not, that it is easy to set up accounts and gamble away to their hearts content and just flitter from one stock to another.
As most here post, this could be £50-100 if only this happens or that happens.... That sucks in a lot of people, some often desperate. And again whether some here like it or not, that mindset is predictably vulnerable to price swings.