I wonder if somebody could help me understand this part about level 2.
if you have more buyers on the bid with more shares then it takes out the ask wich has less sellers with less shares. So the price goes up because the bid is pressuring the ask. The stock is going up.
And if you have a lot of sellers on the ask with a lot of shares to sell, and there is not so much buyers on the bid and also there is less shares to buy(the buying volume is fading) so the ask is pressuring the bid and the price goes down. The stock goes down.
I know that you can fake bids, not all brokers have this function but i am aware that you can do this.
So basically the bid and the ask are fighting, and he who has the most buyers/sellers with more shares wins the battle, and the goal is for bid to push the stock up if it wins and for ask to push the stock down if it wins?
Am i thinking right?
And also what does the red and the green and the white mean in time and sells (the print)
And what does taking out the bid, or taking out the ask mean or hitting the bid or hitting the ask?
Would really appreciate if somebody could explain to me
Thanks for the info, but what does it mean hit the ask and hit the bid mean? and what does stacking mean? is it when for an example if there is a lot of byers on the bid, the bid stacks up (the green color wich shows the highest price gets bigger) or do you see "stacking effect" on the time & sales section?
"Hitting" is simply where the order is placed. If you want to buy right now and not try to do so on the bid, you "hit" the ask buy paying the price on the ask. If you want to sell right now and not wait for a buyer to "hit" the ask, you sell at the price on the bid, "hitting" it. "Stacking" is when the shares are piling up at a given price on either side. It's usually indicative of which side is stronger at the moment but can change VERY rapidly with just one or a few sales and the tide turns.
Also, here are Tim Grittani's videos on lvl2: http://tradetheticker.blogspot.com/p/level-2-videos.html
Thanks for the support i realy appreciate it
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