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Compliments of the Season, Crazies!
One thing to remember at this time of year, gang, is that share volumes are not much.
By that we mean not many shares in any company are sold or bought in the run up to Christmas and in the first few trading days afterwards. This is for the obvious reason that the big traders are partying, or more likely late Christmas shopping.
What does this mean to armchair tycoons like us, though? Well it means that a tiny bit of news can have a big effect on a share. Few shares are sold or bought so the effect of news can be magnified.
Or at least shares dive up and down a lot as the market makers try to spark some interest. If they don't buy or sell shares, their income isn't helped. So they try to make us buy or sell by increasing the movements up or down, depending on the usual things - mostly are the shares popular today or not?
This is my theory anyway. It could be wrong. There doesn't seem to be a rule book of any kind in Crazyland. Not a super reliable one, anyway.
What I have noticed, though, is that shares are particulalry volatile (prone to big ups and downs) at this happy time of year - and it's a great time for the short term punter to do a bit of extra buying and selling. Rockin' on!
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