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by wintogreen74 1149 days ago
>> You can point to any instant, and even any decade in time, and point major inaccuracies in the public's collective financial thinking.

Examples: today Halliburton and GE Health both posted numbers that be the market and saw big drops in value, while Spotify missed big time and swung to a loss, yet saw their stock price go up. Everybody points to potential but totally dismisses today's reality.
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FredPret 1149 days ago
The key thing to remember is “market” is simply a collective noun for “investor”.

It doesn’t have to follow any logical law. People can buy or sell at any time, for any reason, and the market price will move along with it.

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red-iron-pine 1148 days ago
At this point the average individual (aka retail investor) is functionally irrelevant for big moves like the one the parent poster made.

Large firms, often leveraging complex, autonomous systems, are the ones pushing around $20MM worth of stocks and moving the markets (or keeping them from moving). Jim the SE III dropping $30k in RSUs isn't doing to do anything except alter Jim's opinion on the capital gains tax.

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