✅ If there are higher number of buyers (bids) means the stock is in demand and will go up.
✅ If there are higher number of sellers (offers) means the stock is in supply and will go down.
But that is not how it works.
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- Total Buyers: 50000
- Total Sellers: 2000
🔸 Many will interpret this as a high demand stock & expect it to go up.
🔸 But still sometimes the stock rapidly goes down despite more buyers.
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🔸 In above case, if a big player puts in a 100000 sell order at market rate, all the buying pressure gets absorbed in one go.
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🔸 Retailers who had put in small BUY orders got their orders eaten up and the stock starts to fall down further.
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🔸 Most important of all, always think from the high level perspective.
🔸 Try to think of how the big players in the market would think. It will give you a much clearer picture.
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