Originally Posted by Portia
Me: What are you doing?

DS7: I found a stock with a small market cap. I am trying to buy the majority of the stock in my account so I can control the supply. If I control the supply, I should be able to control the price. WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING!!!

Thank goodness this was in a PAPER trade account. Insert discussion on trading laws. Insert discussion on how the paper trade account is not linked to the real exchange.

Reminded me of Dude.


I am DELIGHTED he's catching on so well! Awesome brag, Portia.

You could talk to him about the flip side of price control for a small market cap firm, which is illiquidity (if the market for the stock is a thinly traded market).

I don't know if you're in the market for financial analytics web-based software, but I bet your DS would love Capital IQ. Short of a Bloomberg terminal, it offers a lot of valuable data. He can access analyst reports, comps, financial statements, filter by a number of variables there. He'd have access to firm betas, which could help him build an efficient frontier in his paper trade account.

Actually, I'll PM you regarding Capital IQ.

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