New agreements move the price

A price does not move by itself. Every new number is a new handshake — a different buyer and a different seller agreeing on a different number. When people say "the price" of a product they usually mean the number of the most recent completed agreement, the last price, and the moment the next agreement lands somewhere else the price has changed. If a record shows 250 yesterday and 262 today, the only thing you know for certain is that a new buyer and a new seller agreed at 262. The common misreading is to load the number with a reason: "the product gained value", "buyers won", "it will rise again tomorrow". A number records what happened, never why; ask it for a cause and the cause you get is usually the one you invented. For risk literacy the consequence is plain: whoever acts on a reason the record never supplied is trusting a story of their own making.

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