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HarryAloof
08-02-2014,
We had been talking before that you could not sell a stock unless there was someone that was wanting to buy it. I had mentioned something like this...we have 50 people sitting around a table and only 25 of them had one share of stock. It was mentioned I think that it did not matter which ones owned the stock but here is my question today. Radio Shack is hitting the floor. It is going down and down. So you are telling me that someone is buying the stock (after all you can't sell unless someone wants to buy)

Second question. With the stock crash of the 20's it was sell sell sell. Who bought the stock? After all you can't sell unless someone wants to buy. With just that example the market would never move. So...guys?

JoshuaBrown
08-02-2014,
Market Makers, Short sellers covering, and long term investors.

Market Makers, it is their job to "make the market" if there is not one. Short Sellers when covering have to buy to cover the position they had sold previously. Long term investors, they see a sell off or a pullback to get in on a "blue chip" at a discount.