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Friday 7 October 2011

Why Costs Go Up And Back Down In The Stock Market

By David Costello


As streetwise shoppers, we are expecting to see a prefixed price on a package. We like to scan price list and menu cards in hostels and eateries because they let us know what services and goods we are coughing up for. Costs of these sort of things change naturally, but they definitely don't change each second.

Markets are dissimilar. It's an accepted fact that costs change from moment to moment ; actually fluctuation in price is the sole consistent factor. Ever attempted to work out why this occurs with exchanges and not with other markets? Let us attempt to clarify the issue.

Going back to the fundamentals of the pricing idea in economics, price is created at the level at which demand matches supply. From one perspective, the provision of share stocks is fixed since the company can't decrease or increase its capital on a common basis. But the profit motive has most investors, not concerned in the management of the company, to keep attempting to find good bargains, opportune moments at which to dump their holdings. Such people would like to exit from the company if they get a great price.

On the demand side, there are many developments in the economy and industry that makes a company's shares a great purchase at a selected rate. Therefore , we have got an enormous set of customers who place a requirement for these shares. With 2,000,000 speculators taking part in the market, a couple of thousand would have an interest in the paper of a specific company. Technology has helped us to consistently match demand and supply necessities on a second-to-second basis. This balance between demand and supply consistently changes the cost of a share.

Therefore , the share is an instrument, representing a valuable asset which is acquired and sold with a good profit motive. It's this objective which drives customers and sellers to the market and their perception of a worth attached to a company share that decides the cost.

The subsequent logical question : Do perceptions about company performance change from minute to minute? No. Based on a specified set of facts, a selected investor's perception is the same, though this would possibly not be so for others. Again, if something were to befall the company or the industry in which it operates, if a place with which it is prominently associated were to be influenced negatively, or some other factor were to impact the company, perceptions will change. And it's this that influences price from second to 2nd.

Changing perceptions trigger either a buy action, leading to pushing the price up, followed by a sell trigger at a raised level, with balance at last being revived at another point between customer and seller.

A negative perception would result in a sell action, pushing the price down, followed by a buy trigger from backers, who find good bargains at a lower level, which helps regain lost ground to a certain degree and a new point of balance between customers and sellers.

Ironically, the price movement on its own generates action from a collection of participators known as jobbers or scalpers, who with a particularly fast movement of fingers on the trading PC and fast reflexes in researching the changes in price, keep causing purchase and sell orders in an endeavour to capture the price difference.

The difference is clear then : those that are a part of a purchaser exchange in a hotel or restaurant are highly tiny in number and have other concerns. So price negotiation, if any, infrequently occurs. But stock exchange participators run into millions in number, and negotiating is, for them, a way of living. In an highly efficient screen-based trading technique the price can remain anything apart from steady. Thus , next time you see a continually changing price list card of share market costs, regard it as a possibility, judging the perceptions of those active in the market. There may be a pot of gold waiting to be earned.




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