[Nateman]

How do you sell a stock when there is no one buying it?

[Mouton]

You don’t. But if the price goes down far enough someone will.

[Theoria]

I'm skeptical of this run up. The fact that there is liquidity and people are holding suggest hype. No doubt some option payouts will hurt, but the hedgies involved are the boy scouts. Once the institutions send in the marines, it will be over.

[Hostage]

> “How do you sell a stock when there is no one buying it?”

If you’re a short, you buy back shares you sold to return them to where you borrowed them. You are both seller of someone else’s shares and then buyer of those shares to close out your position. You want to sell high and buy back low.

If you are a naked short (illegal), you put in a sell order of shares you don’t own and you haven’t borrowed. How is this done? This is done in several ways but one way is by abusing hypothecation agreements. In any case, you sell phantom shares but you must have some way of faking out the trading system, maybe special access or maybe you had shares but loaned them out for trading to multiple parties who don’t know they are borrowing shares that are also loaned to many others.

[kvanbrunt2]

The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it’s not going to go up, don’t buy it!( Will Rogers)

[DuncanWaring]

Sell it to a “market maker”.

https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-a-market-maker-and-how-do-they-make-money-4053753