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What is Liquidity?

How easily size can trade without moving the price. Made by people willing to wait; consumed by people who are not.

Liquidity is how much size can trade without moving the price, and it is made by people willing to wait and consumed by people who are not. It is not a fixed property of a coin: the same market is deep at midday and hollow at 4am, which is why an order that behaved perfectly on Tuesday afternoon can gap three levels on a Sunday night.

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Every idea on this page is something you can see on a live tape rather than take on faith. The board draws real executed trades as an army: buyers advance from the left, sellers from the right, and the glowing line between them is the price. Here is how to read it.

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