• FlowVoid@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The listed value is more or less the amount currently being offered by people who want to buy the stock. So if it has a listed value then he can sell it.

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      2 months ago

      If there’s a single copy of a comic book that sells for $1,000 that doesn’t mean you can sell 100 of them for that price.

      If there’s a couple dozen shares of a stock selling for $15, that doesn’t mean there’s enough buyers to pay for a million of them at that price.

      If trump dumps all his shares, the stock price will crash, and eventually there won’t be ANYONE to buy the stock and the price will be effectively $0.

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        2 months ago

        Comic books don’t have market makers. Stocks generally do.

        They act as intermediaries so individual stock buyers don’t have to find individual stock sellers. Which means the companies that agree to act as market makers are always willing to buy a stock and always willing to sell it. When buyers and sellers don’t balance, they adjust the stock price until they do (always making a slight profit on arbitrage).