Volume analysis examines how the number of traded shares affects a security's price. Discover how this method is integral to ...

Trading volume – the number of shares of a security traded in a given day or other period – has long served as a proxy for market demand. For many traders, volume is used as a confirmation indicator ...

Volume is the number of shares of a stock that have changed hands over a certain period of time, typically one day. Stocks with higher volumes have more investors interested in buying or selling them.

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