#教学

Imbalance in financial markets refers to a situation where one side of a transaction—either buyers or sellers—dominates, meaning there is a difference between supply and demand volumes.

The existence of imbalance drives price movement. Furthermore, any price change, no matter how minimal, reflects an imbalance. When at the current level on a price chart, the number of buy orders or sell orders exceeds the opposing side's pending orders (which is the essence of imbalance), they will be executed against the counterparty's orders at the next price level. Price then begins to shift. This continues until supply and demand return to equilibrium.