The speaker uses a house-selling analogy to explain basic market microstructure: asking price (seller) and bid (buyer), and how accepting or hitting offers creates passive vs aggressive orders that add or remove liquidity and move the market price. The example contrasts a seller refusing a low bid (adding liquidity) versus a buyer hitting the seller's ask or the seller hitting a lower bid (removing liquidity), framing this as a principle traders can use to capitalize on market moves.
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Let's act like you own a house. And Riz is selling his house, and he listed it on the market, and he has an asking price of $100,000. Carmine comes by and Carmine says, riz, that's too much money for that house. I'm willing to buy your house at $90,000. Carmine is bidding now for $90,000. Two things could happen. Riz says, no way. And Carmine has to say, all right, Riz, you know what? I take your hundred thousand dollar offer. What that does is if you stay firm to your asking price, you, you are placing a passive order because you're adding liquidity to the market. You are selling because you are asking to sell. And Carmine comes along and he's buying to your asking price. Flip this a little bit. Now Carmine's not willing to pay $100,000. And Carmine wants to buy for $90,000. You say, you know what, Carmine, I'm willing to hit your bid at $90,000. The market theoretically moves down because now the transaction got occurred at a lower price. And Riz essentially sold to me on the bid because I was bidding for that house passively at 90,000 dol the price that I was willing to pay. And we relate this to the market on a daily basis. And we can use this to our advantage, whether we're looking to capitalize on the market down or looking to capitalize on the market to the upside. With this information alone.
