How long can it take institutions to accumulate positions according to the transcript?

Kosta OuzasCEO Minotaur Trading Systems

The ONE Thing You Need to Understand About Liquidity

21 Dec 2025 · 0 min

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Institutions accumulate large positions over months without moving the market, trading on VWAP (volume-weighted average price) to drive volume. The orange line on their chart shows the average price during these extended accumulation periods.

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Examples cited: two, three, four, or six months (i.e., it can take months to accumulate a position).

These institutions, sometimes it takes them three months, four months, two months, six months to accumulate the positions that they need.
They, the market.
Won'T move until that process is complete. Also, one other thing, that orange line.
Is the average price, right?
So institutions.
They trade on what's called V WAP or volume weighted average price. So we're.
Doing the same thing.
We're driving.
Our volume.
Weighted, our average price down is like they, they're doing with their V waps.