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Scalping happens when the list price is lower than the market price. Nobody scalps shares of Alphabet, because the price floats. Merchants don't want to increa
by sbierwagen 5y ago
Scalping happens when the list price is lower than the market price.
Nobody scalps shares of Alphabet, because the price floats. Merchants don't want to increase list prices, because they'll get yelled at, so instead they run out of stock and middlemen collect the arbitrage price. If you don't like it, tell stores to increase prices, and tell CNN to stop running stories about how awful greedy businessmen are causing inflation purely out of spite.
- valdiorn 5y agoA short squeeze, like happened with gamestop, is basically scalping on stock markets. the market really, really needs those shares, but not enough are available, so price shoots up.