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Questions tagged [trading-volume]

For questions related to volume of trade. Typically used in the context of Stocks trading, can be used for Options or other trades. Related tags are trading, volume, online-trading.

To be used for questions related to volume of trade. Typically used in the context of Stocks trading, can be used for Options or other trades. Related tags are trading, volume, day-trading, online-trading.

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How is it possible that these deep ITM stock options on DISH went from 52,000 volume, 550 open bids, 550 open asks to being completely dead overnight?

I bought 16 years of historical hourly stock options data for my personal investment study to test how particular strategies may have played out over a long period of time. I'm looking at the data for a DISH 1/21/2012 5/2.5c credit spread (yes I…
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How to calculate how much a large stock position is really worth?

Let's say, completely hypothetically, that I own 1,000,000 shares in Company X, and their share price is exactly $10.00. Theoretically, this is worth $10 million, but obviously if I wanted to liquidate this quickly and I placed an order saying…
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Can we estimate the impact of a large buy order on the share price?

What I am trying to understand is: If we know the number of shares a company trades and the current price of the share, can we estimate what volume of trade that is required to move the share price in either direction? I understand the general…
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Consequences of buying/selling a large number of shares for a low volume stock?

Out of curiosity, I've casually followed some penny stocks that trade for under a dollar a share, and find occasional swings up of 10-15%. One naive interpretation of this fact is that if I bought $10,000 worth of these shares, and the stock went…
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Why there's always a very huge volume of trades for AAPL every day before market close?

Unlike many other stocks, AAPL always trades at a very high volume before the market close. Is there any reason this happens? Or this is just by coincidence?
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Why is the volume highest at the beginning and end of a trading day?

I have been looking at the charts of highly traded instruments like SPY and AAPL in Yahoo Finance and have noticed that their volumes are generally higher at the start and the end of each trading day. That is, the graph of the volume against time in…
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Is there a way to bet on the trade volume of a stock?

Say, stock ABC trades 100,000 shares per day. I feel strongly that in the near future it will trade 200,000 shares per day. Is there an instrument I can buy to profit on this? To be clear, I don't care if the stock goes up or down. I want to make…
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How does one typically exit (close out) a large, in-the-money long put option position?

I'm long some puts on a stock that has dropped a great deal. I've made $400,000 on an investment of $100,000. The question is, how do I exit? I can't really sell the puts because there isn't enough open interest in them now that they are so far…
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Why do stocks tend to trade at high volumes at the end of (or start) the trading day?

Not related to this question, I am asking why stocks seem to be traded at very high volumes right at the start and end of the trading day. Is this because these graphs factor in all of the premarket and postmarket trades?
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Is there a difference between buying few shares of an expensive stock vs many shares of an inexpensive one?

My stock broker tends to discourage me from buying fewer than 100 shares of a given stock (an odd lot) even if the stock is more expensive, and would put my portfolio temporarily out of balance (which would correct itself after I put more money in…
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How does anyone make significant money on very low volume stocks?

After getting some answers to a related question, I thought I'd post a follow-up. It seems that if there is a low-volume stock, even with significant daily swings in stock price (e.g. 10-15%), one really can't take advantage of that to make any…
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What is high trading volume in a stock indicative of? Is high liquidity a good thing or a bad thing?

At Investopedia - Average Daily Trading Volume - ADTV it says: If trading volume isn't very high, the security will tend to be less expensive because people are not as willing to buy it. But I thought if trading volume was high, it means…
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How to sell option with no volume

If there is no volume on options you want to buy/sell, should you do any transactions with those options? Here is my scenario: I recently bought two puts of an industry ETF. A few days later it was showing an unrealized gain but all strike prices…
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What is the difference between FINRA share volume and NASDAQ share volume?

What is the difference between FINRA share volume and NASDAQ share volume? Why does the daily list published by FINRA have considerably less volume then the volume data published by NASDAQ. For example, take the stock AAV: the NASDAQ report shows…
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Yahoo Finance's cryptocurrency volume

What is the definition of "volume" in Yahoo Finance's data on BTC-USD and ETH-USD?
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