Shares in a huge number of companies fell almost universally, it was mainly the spontaneous reactions of ordinary investors. This was because they didn't understand who was shorting and such, they only knew that the futures and foreign exchange markets were experiencing dramatic fluctuations, and share indices had started to fall. This indicated that potentially a large-scale stock market drop was imminent, so to minimize their losses, these regular people immediately started selling some of their stocks.
At this point, however, the number of sellers will definitely outweigh the buyers. Consequently, the total market size of the entire stock market was decreasing! At this time, Olivia Thatcher once again sold, only this time she didn't have to put in much effort. She started acquiring stocks of Nasperslimited company directly at prices slightly lower than the market's, and after absorbing, she immediately sold at price even lower than her purchasing cost.
