You’d be surprised how little volume it takes to make prices move intraday. Market makers are not rigidly stupid and sell you as much as you want at a fixed pr

You’d be surprised how little volume it takes to make prices move intraday. Market makers are not rigidly stupid and sell you as much as you want at a fixed price. If you continue to buy aggressively, they will raise the prices while you are buying. Also retail isn’t really well defined in terms of dollar amounts. there are some extremely wealthy people classified as retail. And they don’t need to be as ultra conservative with their trading as institutional traders because they are trading their own money.