RE:RE:Can’t live with 'em, can’t live without 'em The market is looking at the average daily trading volume that is typically calculated over 20 or 30 days.
Market makers help keep the market functioning, meaning if you want to sell a stock, they are there to buy it. Similarly, if you want to buy, they are there to have that stock available to sell to you.
It is often felt that the Market Makers manipulate the prices. "Market Manipulation" is an emotive term, and conjurers images of shady deals and exploitation. Market Makers are not elusive companies that appear then vanish overnight. Market Makers are duty bound to make a market and to meet the needs of those they are responsible, to this end they may try to influence the market.
Market Makers are however known to lower prices to "panic" investors into selling, sometimes called "shaking the tree"? Moving the price up, encourages sells, moving it down also encourage sell, hence also the term dead cat bounce when a Market Maker will mark a falling stock up to encourage buyers in thinking they have reached the bottom.
A good pricing system such as Level 2 will give you an indication which Market Makers are keenly priced
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