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Buyers, Sellers & Prices

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A price happens when a buyer and a seller agree. If more people want to buy than sell, the price often rises. If more want to sell than buy, it often falls.

Volume means how many shares changed hands. Big volume means lots of trading activity that day.

'Often' is not 'always'. Even experts cannot know what a price will do next.

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