Supply, Demand, and Price Distension

Glossary

Consensual Market Value

  • aggregate opinion of fair price or aggregate perceived “value”

Long Term

  • a period of several years to a couple of decades

Overbought

  • when widespread buying drives price up to a point where all demand has been exhausted in this price range (see Supply and Demand)

Oversold

  • when widespread selling drives price down until all supply has been consumed in this price range (see Supply and Demand)

Price Distension

  • digression of price from Consensual Market Value which is not great enough to significantly alter the Consensual Market Value

Supply and Demand

  • desire to sell and desire to buy. The desire to buy or sell is constrained by a price range which is based on each market participant’s perception of what constitutes a fair price

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