Antoine " A 100 share market order can have dramatic effect if there is not a party taking up the other side of the trade"
Well it could have an effect in the short term in a very thin stock. What 'seems lost on a lot of investors' is that not all offerings or bids are actually shown at any one time. That is why market depth on both sides can be so misleading.
You might say to your broker. particularly on a thin stock, "look I'd like to get out of this - let's watch and hit the bids when they come - but don't show any offerings" Similarly, and conversely, on the buy side.
Of course with a nice liquid stock like Barrick 100 shares is neither here nor there. TA can show many things . Nothing is certain, but it does seem that with certain stocks certain things seem to have worked eg with a couple of stocks I sold recently the MACD gave, time and time again, signals that the stock was in a downtrend/uptrend. No doubt this will be the time it doesn't work - but I took a profit by doing this, and hopefully limited a loss. Also, if you have certain TA indications that look like they have worked, it does give you some discipline over emotion, I think you can become increasingly sophisticated over all of this, and am not sure at what point you reach the law of diminishing returns and/or develop a recipe for inaction? E |
