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The price of stocks decrease if everyone sells them. Your examples are incompatible.

• abduhl 6y ago
  Well if everyone is selling then nobody is buying and the quoted stock price remains unchanged. See how ridiculous it is to nitpick purely hypothetical situations?
  • boh 6y ago
    It's not hypothetical because it happens. Stocks don't operate in low-entropy hypothetical planes of existence, they trade on markets. If your ask has no bids you lower your ask. Sellers will keep lowering it and if there's no bids it will get very near zero in which case the exchange will likely de-list the stock. A hypothetical where you sell one flying car doesn't illustrate a comparable dynamic.