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Thursday, 10/25/2018 4:11:30 PM

Thursday, October 25, 2018 4:11:30 PM

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You might be selling stocks because you need the money, because you're rebalancing your portfolio, because you think it’s the right thing to do, or because emotions have gotten the better of you. Whatever the reason, the person buying from you might have a different time frame or opinion, or simply a cooler head.

Institutions account for 75 percent of all trading, so chances are you will be selling your stock to a professional – a specialist or market maker, an institutional trader, a mutual fund, a pension fund or a hedge fund. These institutions often trade in large blocks, so your shares may be rounded up with those from other individual investors and sold en masse in a block trade.

What we may have:
A professional trader is most likely to trade against you: Your loss is his gain. He buys from you because he thinks he can resell your shares at a profit. Professional traders often try to shake retail investors out of their positions by orchestrating sudden price drops to induce them to sell.

RLBD in the dollars guys!