When I look at filings, I sometimes see a major institution buying or selling 1mil shares on a single company in one day. However, when I analyze the minute-by-minute order fulfilment, it's clear that these 1mil shares are not bought/sold at once. Doing so would have bid the prices up/down considerably. They buy/sell little by little throughout the day.
My question then becomes...do institutions handle this buying/selling themselves? Or they get a broker to do it? Would it require some special skill to offload a large amount of shares without tanking the price?
Would appreciate some clarity as to how these large institutions go about doing their buying and selling.
Submitted September 12, 2017 at 10:28AM by learner1314 http://ift.tt/2eSoCZk