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Re: Truenorth2016 post# 29397

Wednesday, 10/07/2020 12:34:59 AM

Wednesday, October 07, 2020 12:34:59 AM

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True. A number of buys on bid are listed as sells.
When you buy or sell a stock you buy or sell it to the MM. Ask and bid are only the amount of shares the MM is willing to sell at that price at that moment. Those number can change in a heartbeat. If aMM buys shares from you he could hold on to them in definately until he pleases to sell them. All trades are between you and the MM. No other trader is involved in the trade. AMM will always have shares to sell you if he is at the active bid spot. If not he can borrow them from brokers clients margin accounts.