Disliked{quote} Good day Sir. I have a question about your long term trade explained on a picture. Thank you. {image}Ignored
It takes millions of dollars to move the price of most financial markets. The screen shot you posted are orders being filled. A person, institution, etc could place an order to purchase 500 contracts, or a person or institution, etc could place an order for 1 contract. If you pay attention to the bid / ask price in the last few weeks... most of the orders appearing are like 5, 7 10, 16, etc are small numbers. However, they are still big enough, to move the market enough, for traders to use their TA skills to make positive points. So, if we knew how many actual contracts were coming in either buy or sell, well...that would give someone an advantage. And if they got caught, they would be criminally charged... most likely with insider trading. So, it kind of makes sense why orders appear but not how many contracts are contained within each order.
If I am wrong, and there is a way to know the amount of actual contracts being bought/sold, as opposed to orders, I am all ears. And I assume others would be delighted to have that almost holy grail level of inside knowledge.
So, as far as Mr.Pip's contracts that he buys or sells, among a sea of other contracts being bought or sold, only the market makers know this, and they lump them together into orders that match the price that they are being bought or sold at. If the market makers can't find a match, then they give you the closest price they can find, which is known as "slippage". So, although you want to see where Mr.Pip sold his contracts, it would be impossible to know, because Mr.Pip is but a single drop of water in a large ocean of contracts that are bought and sold be market makers. Sorry for the long winded answer. In a nut shell, you should learn how market makers create the financial markets that exist so that you can buy something that I sell and vice versa. Take care and good luck.
Luck has no place in trading. Leave that for the poker table.