Trading: What Really Makes Markets Move?

Explanation of Why Buying and Selling Moves Market Prices.  Trading: What Makes a Market Move?  Markets move based on supply and demand.  In practice this is an auction process.  The price of a market is where a buyer and a seller have agreed a price and a trade has take place.  Markets trade on a centralised exchange example: LSE, NYSE, NASDAQ, NYMEX..etc  Forex does not but is priced from a group of banks trading with each other.

Players and participants:
Institutions: Banks, hedge funds, pensions, mutual funds,
Reail - Small trading firms, independent traders, investors
HFT - Algos used to purely scalp small price movements.

What moves a market? A person buys because he thinks the market will go up.  He/she is hoping someone will buy the market after he has causing it to keep rising.

[Note: For every buyer there is a seller.  So for a market to rise buyers have to become more aggressive than sellers, paying a higher and higher price causing the market  to go up]

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