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Microcap & Penny Stocks : TSIG.com TIGI (formerly TSIG)
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To: James Kelso who wrote (18091)2/25/1999 3:50:00 PM
From: Robert B.  Read Replies (1) of 44908
 
MM = Market Maker. When you trade, they buy shares from you at the bid price and sell shares to you at the ask price. They make money by selling their shares at a higher price than they bought them. That is why you see a difference between the bid and ask price.. The share prices should rise and fall by supply and demand, but it doesn't always happen that way. Sometimes, when the MMs want shares at a cheap price, they will lower the bid and ask prices to make it look like selling is coming in hoping that shareholders will panic and sell their shares back to them. It's more complicated than that, but you have something to chew on now.
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