• nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    the stock market has a LOT of automated trade. when the price of a highly traded stock falls and reaches certain points it triggers limit orders to buy, and when it rises it triggers limit orders to sell. that’s why you never see a clean rising line or falling line for more than a few days at a time, these auto orders run by the huge investment companies always stabilise things a bit. to see larger trends you have to scale up your chart to see past the stabilising periods.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah, that makes sense, 100%. I think I was just feeling anxious because everything is so overwhelming, any positive sign for the fascists is scary to me. Thanks for helping explain that.

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        11 hours ago

        This little exchange warmed my heart.

        Just wanted to pop in and say it’s up over the 5 day mark. I think it will still go down just frustrating to see.