How Financial Markets Really Work

Category: Market Analysis
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## PURPOSE
Explain how modern financial markets function beyond surface-level explanations.

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## CORE SECTIONS

### What a market actually is
(Explain market as a mechanism, not a place)

### Participants and their roles
(Institutional vs retail, liquidity providers, intermediaries)

### Order flow vs price
(Why price moves because of orders, not news)

### Exchanges vs OTC markets
(Structure, transparency, implications)

### Why prices move when they do
(Flows, positioning, liquidity, expectations)

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## TRUST RULES
– No affiliate links
– No platform promotion
– No predictions framed as certainty

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## INTERNAL LINKING (TO ADD)
– Link to PILLAR_INDEX.md
– Link to Liquidity pillar
– Link to Market Risk pillar