Liquidity

How much you can trade, how fast, without moving the price. Ample in calm markets, gone in stressed ones — liquidity is a fair-weather friend, and its disappearance is itself the crisis.

Where Liquidity is explained in depth

The definition above is the short version. These pages put it to work, in the order they use it most:

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