I'm fairly new to investing in the stock market world and have wondered this for sometime. When you buy a share do you actually buy it from someone who is selling it? The reason I ponder this is ...
it doesn't matter how many people are buying and selling, what matters is how many shares are being bought and sold, and for what price. If someone wants to buy and someone wants to sell at the ...
Category: Investing
That is, if 1. a market maker sells 100 puts on XYZ, causing open interest to go up to 100. 2. other everyday investors also offer to sell 100 puts on XYZ 3. The market maker realizes that the 100 ...
You are very confused because you are not adhering to the definitions and guidelines and conventions of trading. Plus, you throw in some kind of conspiracy theory here of "manipulation". There is no ...
Category: Investing
Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling You read that headline correctly. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil. The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to ...
To make the silent leader of the Democratic party money. George Soros invested 900 million dollars in PetroBra. The 6 months moratorium for offshore drilling will send all the deep water rigs to ...
Category: Politics
Once a company goes 'public' and receives capital from its Initial Public Offering (IPO), it just takes those funds and is done with the transaction, right? Now there are all these stocks ...
The new shareholders after the IPO care what happens to the company and what management does. If management actions dont increase shareholder returns then they are going to sell and invest in ...
Category: Investing