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Q: Where can I find the number of trades of a stock besides the volume?
I MEAN FOR US OR UK STOCKS
A: I'm not sure that that's available or meaningful. When I put in one trade, many times my broker fills it in pieces to get better pricing for the total. There is really no way to tell how many trades were pieces of other trades.
Q: Why is there 0 volume on Frontier Airline stock today?
I know it's taken a dive lately but have they pulled it? I don't know a lot about the market but it seems odd that there hasn't been a single trade today.
A: The Nasdaq Stock Market will delist the stock of Frontier Airlines' parent company starting April 22 as a result of the low-cost carrier's bankruptcy.
I suppose the site you are looking at just shows the trades from the NYSE, ASE, and NASDAQ and not the bulletin board and pink sheet stocks.
Q: What was the highest sinle stock volume on the NYSE?
A: Symbol LU ,volume 27,481,000 share today
Q: How can this stock go up 99% with only a volume of 1,100?
this stock OLCB went up 99.17% and the volume for it today was only like 1,100. was the price directly effected by those shares that were bought that day because there wasnt any news that i saw that would affect it. also would the company stock only go up 50% if the volume was like half...say like 600 shares traded. Thanks
A: There are two reasonable possibilities.
The first possibility is that to big change in price was caused by the fact that there is such low volume for the stock that when someone wants to sell it creates a glut on the market and if someone wants to buy it causes a scarcity on the market. That is simple supply and demand. Big percentage moves are common in thinly traded stocks, although 99% is certainly bigger then usual. If someone used a "market" order instead of a "limit" order to buy the stock, and at the time the order went in there were no owners actively trying to sell their stock, that could double the price of a thinly traded stock..
The second possibility is that there was a one for two reverse split on the stock that somehow missed getting mentioned in the financial press. If that happened the value of the stock would have actually changed less than 1%.
Q: Is there any significance to the big pickup in volume today on the stock market trading?
There were 2 billion more NYSE shares traded today than yesterday
when the market fell 500 points
Is this a sign that the market is about to turn?
A: Nice to see one or two intelligent questions today in this section
The volume pickup that you noted could be significant
I noticed that there was huge trading in BAC today
over 300 million shares comapred to 97 mil avg volume
I believe we are near an intermedite bottom
and I started to cover my shorts today
and actually started to go long
Q: What is the relation between the volume of stock traded and the quality of stock ?
A: There is no real correlation between volume of stock traded and the quality. Although there are many factors that determine a stock's volume, one of the biggest factors is how many shares are outstanding and it's price. A stock that sells for $10 per share and has 500 million shares outstanding ($5 Billion Market Cap) would probably have a higher volume than a stock that sells for $100,000 per share and has 50,000 shares ($5 Billion Market Cap)
What's more important than share volume is Market Cap Volume traded each day for a particular stock. This helps you compare apples to apples.
Q: Stock volume, is it genuine?
If a stock has an unusual volume on a particular day, how do you know two people aren't just selling stock back and forth to one another to inflate the volume? Is there anyway to see a record of who is actually doing the trades?
Thanks!
A: you can never be guaranteed, but that type of trading is illegal, its called painting the tape and the regulators are always on the lookout for that kind of scam. It is especially prevelant in pink sheet kind of stocks. There is no way to find out who the buyers and sellers are.
Q: i like to know the about stock trading volume and ideas of buying single?
how can analysis the trade volume
A: Volume is an important indicator in technical analysis as it is used to measure the worth of a market move. If the markets have made strong price move either up or down the perceived strength of that move depends on the volume for that period. The higher the volume during that price move the more significant the move.
A support level is a price level which a stock has had difficulty falling below. This is where a lot of buyers tend to enter the stock. Similarly, we know that resistance is a price level above which a stock has difficulty climbing. This is where a lot of buyers take profits and shorts enter. Typically, a stock's price will range between these levels until it breaks out or breaks down. Hundreds of different methods can be used to locate these areas of support and resistance, but one of the most underrated methods is simply using price by volume (PBV) charts.
Q: If you dilute 30.0 mL of the stock solution to a final volume of 1.00 L, what will be the concentration?
If you dilute 30.0 mL of the stock solution to a final volume of 1.00 L, what will be the concentration of the diluted solution?
sorry HNO3
A: I thing that you forgot to tell us the solution of which compound you mean ( HCl , H2SO4 ...)
Q: How can a stock make a fairly large move on low volume?
It seems to me that a huge move would be accompanied by huge volume... but that's not always the case. How is this possible? Are the few buyers and sellers able to drive up the prices because they are the only ones buying and selling?
A: This usually happens with "Controlled" stock
like OB, OTC, or pink sheets. Company insiders own most of the stock and can manipulate the price by bidding more for non available stock, doesn't cost much to drive up the price and then the stories are circulated by them to create a lot of demand and then they sell their inflated price shares into the market. once the is a lot more stock than buys, the price collapses, the insiders, buy back stock a a much lower price and then do it all over again another time.
Q: Why did the volume of this stock go up?
DDR (Developers Diversified Realty) had a volume increase from about 250,000 to 13.4 million since this morning. What does this mean and why is it happening? The % change of their share has went down -36.96%. Is this related and how?
A: DDR has credit problems. Today S&P's ratings on their debt went down today and judged their credit outlook as negative. The stock's been falling for weeks anyway because of credit concerns.
Since everyone's very nervous about credit problems right now, the market reacted to this even more strongly than it ordinarily would.
However, if you will notice, the stock price fell early on and then spent the day climbing back up, and then went down again in after-hours. It will be interesting to see what their Q3 earnings are -- you'll know in the morning.
Q: How do you read the key statistics of a stock like the PE, EPS, Market Cap, Volume etc. ?
When you look up a stock it has alot of key stats but I don't know what they mean. Can anyone explain them or suggest a good book - most of the books i have come across talk about the philosophy of investing etc but not the facts.
A: This is all pretty basic. P/E is a ratio between price and EPS (earnings per share). It can be historic (last years figs) or prospective (guestimate of next years) It tells you in how many years the present EPS will get you back the share price. Of course the EPS isn't static over the years. Historic P/E not much use as that was last year. Prospective P/E not much use as it is a guess for next year. Gives an indication of the type of company (high or low growth) and can be used (with care) to compare similar companies, or to value a private company. EPS, well I've done that, but The company's profit (Earnings) divided by (Per) the number of Shares in issue.Again can be historic or prospective and cannot be taken at face value. Did the company have an exceptional year (one off contract, sale of old building). We use EBITDA for earnings (Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and something else, maybe Amortisation), Market cap is number of shares in issue times current price. The value the market puts on the company any one day. Strange the same company could be worth $1m today, $500,000 Moday, and $1m Tuesday. Has the company itself changed over the weekend (maybe if it's a Bank!). So gives you an idea of the size of the comapny. Volume is just the number of shares from the markets perspective. So it could be daily trading volume, Number of shares on offer or bid for etc. It may be more significant if share prices, indices move on high volume as opposed to low volume.
A joke: Broker to client " Do you want the good news or bad?" Client "Bad" Broker "Your stock has fallen 25%, you've lost $20k" Client "Crikey! What's the good news?" Broker "They went down on very low volume"
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Q: Today I saw a stock that dropped 14% with only 200 volume... why is that?
I have seen stocks with higher volume not move at all, but this one just dropped with hardly any.
A: it's probably just a case of it being illiquid, and some idiot putting in a market sell order.
Q: How can I find out what stock have the largest 'buy' volume on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and NYMEX?
A: Not sure what you're looking for why you're looking for it BUT
for every buy the is a sell. so you can't have a buyer without a seller and you can't have any volume unless you have a buyer and a seller.
There is no such thing as "buy volume"
Look at MSN,Money or Yahoo Finance or any American newspaper.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp
http://finance.yahoo.com/
BUT stocks do not trade on the Merc, only commodities
and as the same in stock, to have a commodity trade you must have a buyer and a seller
Q: When I look at a stock's volume, is that the actual number of shares? Or do I need to add some zeros to the nu
I'm looking at the stock TJX. I'm new at this and I'm definitely missing something. If the volume of shares is 2,984,020 (according to Yahoo Finance) and the shares are selling for $26.96--that means I could buy the entire company for only $80 million???? What am I missing? (TJX is the parent company of TJ Maxx, Marshalls, etc.--no small company.)
A: A stock's volume is just the number of shares that have been bought and sold on that particular day, not the company's total number of shares outstanding. TJX has about 455 million shares outstanding, so less than 1 percent of the company's shares were traded-- the company has a market capitalization (the value of all the shares) of $12.27 billion.