how do stock traders know someone will buy their stock/sell stock at a price they want?

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Like if I try to sell an old couch on marketplace, there’s no guarantee someone will buy it. This is the first part of my question, what if no one wants the stock they’re selling? Can they just sell it to the ‘stockmarket’ or do they actually have to find a buyer like a specific bank or person that will buy it?

Then when I sell a couch, I can pick the price I want to sell it for, and maybe go back and forth with the buyer. As I understand though stocks have a specific price every moment, and you sell it for whatever the current price is. What if it’s an in demand stock though? Couldn’t you sell it for above whatever the current market price is?

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> Can they just sell it to the ‘stockmarket’ or do they actually have to find a buyer like a specific bank or person that will buy it?

Nope, you have to find a buyer/seller depending on what you want to do. It usually doesnt happen to big stocks since there’s so many shares, but it happens often to things like penny stocks.

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