Obama, I suppose we're making headway since last week you didn't even believe the TA was important or believable; now you're quoting what their role is. lol
The prices quoted by market makers at any one time reflect the balance of supply and demand at that time, and they have to pitch their prices so as to be able to both buy and sell the shares. What you have to do when you want to buy some shares is get the shares from an existing shareholder.
Outstanding shares are those already held, both restricted and unrestricted.
The float are free trading or unrestricted shares.
When the company issues new shares (within the authorized amount), they report it to the TA. That is how we get our OS. When those shares have the restriction lifted, they become free trading, aka the float.
All of this goes through our TA.
I hope you decide to do some dd. Imo, much of the info you are posting here is inaccurate and misleading. We've all tried helping but it's probably best you do your own research.
Good luck.
