eli5 How is the ticker price of a stock decided when there are multiple trades of a stock happening at the same time?

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eli5 How is the ticker price of a stock decided when there are multiple trades of a stock happening at the same time?

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nothing really happens at the same time …

trades are executed in order, technically each trade is a tick on the ticker.

but for active stocks this needs to be aggregated

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