Talk:Layering (finance)
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How can higher ask prices lower the selling price?
How can ask prices (which in stock markets is known as the the price the seller is asking for) above market prices push sales prices down??
Just by the pure pressure of seeing other sellers, even though the layers are offering higher??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.105.126.227 (talk) 00:17, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
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Placing "orders to sell at or below the market ask price" does not look consistent with "a trader makes and then cancels orders that they never intend to have executed" as the former strategy will or is likely to lead to execution of the order.
I would have thought layering was placing several orders to sell at several different prices (layers) above the market price to suggest substantial supply to encourage others to sell at the market price (or placing several orders to buy at different prices below the market price to suggest substantial demand to encourage others to buy at the market price). It is a slightly more complicated version of spoofing (finance). 109.152.52.23 (talk) 12:52, 12 May 2025 (UTC)