Apolo well put that should answer his question. Its always the volume and market value. To kinda get a feeling of a trend. But then 5 million shares could be sold. And many follow like sheep. But right there the lag in retail to level 3 the split second is huge. I hit the ask on another stock the other day. And I paid .15 more per shares I was so pissed off. So I just stick to limit ordering now with my limit so that dont happen again. So from when I hit buy that split second cost me. Then it dipped .07 when I went to another screen so 3 seconds. Uhhh.
They are trying now to cut the lag in half to I believe. 10 of a sec but the companies are pissed. They made millions off those split second delay. The 2 companies do the trades for all the internet retail. So our broker buys the shares from them they are the ones who do the trades a big super like computer system. Tho they make multi millions most people dont know about it. So i would advise people to do limit trades so this dont happen to others. But i bet its happen to most of us. Its easy to find. I dont want to put their names. Just never know of legal issues.
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