Why isn't anyone discussing what is going on?

Quote from winter:

What happens when MSFT gaps down $1 overnight without any trades occuring. If I have 1000 shares I just lost $1000 of wealth. Now who is the counterparty that increased their wealth by $1000?
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It's all on paper my friend, it's all on paper.
 
Quote from Maverick74:

Those that were long, lost their money to those that sold.
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No, because nobody sold. There was no sales between the close and the open but there was a downgap.

Now I understand there is a difference here between money and wealth, so what are the definitions for them in this case?

This is actually a very interesting topic that I have been pondering about.
 
We can ask the question in a different way, without having a gap:

What happens to the money when a stock's price falls to half in one day when only 10K shares were traded, although there are 1 million stocks in the hands of the investors?
 
Answer: you say 'money' but you mean wealth. wealth is destroyed. end of discussion. money (as in M1, M2 and M3) is different than wealth and is not effected by stock price movements as another poster pointed out.
 
Quote from Pekelo:

We can ask the question in a different way, without having a gap:

What happens to the money when a stock's price falls to half in one day when only 10K shares were traded, although there are 1 million stocks in the hands of the investors?
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you find out very quickly that trading is not a zero sum game after all.....lol
 
Quote from marketsurfer:

the question should be:

can a stock gap without trading?




surfer:)
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It just like looking a a new chicken egg's constiuents (molecularly speaking) and the molecular constutuents of a chick upon hatching. very different molecular before and after.

Take the miner's death's presumed to be nitrous oxide poisoning that turn out to be CO -2 poisoning ....couldn't happen until is was proven.

Gaps are very very common without any trading.....


Roll over days must be hazardous duty pay for some of you when you wake up in the morning and that market has just dissappeared overnite......LOL...


Triple witches can really screw up alot of things too.


BOOOO!!!!!
 
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