I'm fairly new in stocks, and have a small question. Why

Because in most cases, when you buy a share, your brokerage is selling it to you. And vice versa.

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Here is a graph of the value of the stock during the past month. Dont know if you need it to make sense of the situation, but thought i would add it.

The currency is NOK, which have a value of around 1/10 cents

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>>1815281

Ok this kinda makes a lot of sense, but why would almost every other stock have trade lists that look like this

>>1815293
Market Makers

Welcome to the smoke and mirrors game.

>>1815297

Thanks for your help!

I kinda still don't completely understand though.

Does this mean that the brokerage firms buy the stock for slightly less than 0.13 nok, and sell for slightly more?

I Read about it a little bit, and it seemed to me that this was a different way for the brokerage firms to make money other than the brokerage?

>>1815297
>>1815321
Also: If the point is to create a smoother market, why would the companies buy their own stocks back from them selves?

>>1815321
>>1815325

Ok i get now that market makers are more or less the same as stock brokers, just at a larger scale (?). My second question still stands though.

Why are they seemingly buying their own stock back?