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Suppose I a (hypothetical) very low frequency value based trader buy a million dollars worth of Apple. Apple should go up in price slightly, because someone (m
by gpm 3y ago
Suppose I a (hypothetical) very low frequency value based trader buy a million dollars worth of Apple.
Apple should go up in price slightly, because someone (me) just made a big bet that it's going to do well. The market does this automatically.
TSMC should also go up in price very slightly, because Apple doing well makes it more likely that TSMC (a major vendor of theirs) will also do well, and the market just learned that Apple is slightly more likely to do well, so it also just learned that TSMC is more likely to do well. In other words the companies performance is correlated, so the stock prices should be as well.
By my understanding HFT is the mechanism by which the market can make TSMC go up slightly as well. High frequency traders can react to the information that apple is going to do better (as per it's increased stock price) and buy a bit of TSMC.
This seems like it should make the market more accurate, and if you buy that the market accurately assigning values to a company is a good thing, seems like a good thing.
- chrismorgan 3y agoBut for you to buy a million dollars worth of Apple, someone sold a million dollars worth of Apple, right?
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- throwaway744678 3y agoOr 1 million people sold $1 worth of Apple. If you want to execute a large trade, you'd probably have to buy from several sellers, and (my limited understanding of the market is that) you'd do so by matching sell orders in ascending order, thus pushing the market value up.
- gpm 3y agoSure, but assume for the hypothetical that the counter parties were a list of existing "I'll sell this much at this price" orders. I.e. they were existing information that the market already took into account.