Volume analysis has played an important role in my analysis for over 30 years. It can be traced back to my discovery in the late 1970s of the late Joe Granville’s book New Strategy of Daily Stock Market Timing for Maximum Profit. In this book he wrote “stocks do not rise in price ...
“If yields reach 5%, it will indicate some frustration among bond investors with government deficits, and that could bleed over to have negative equity market implications.” Although markets exhibited year-end volatility, stocks in 2024, as measured by the benchmark S&P ...
Another factor to consider when evaluating cost-efficiency is an ETF’s liquidity profile. ETF liquidity comes in two levels, primary and secondary,7and is not necessarily defined by average daily trading volume. For most investors trading hundreds of shares, secondary liquidity, or the trading of...
In doing so we take the perspective of a researcher who has access to data on open, high, low and close prices and on the number of transactions and the dollar trading volume. For our analysis we need to specify (a) the frequency at which these data are available (measured by the ...
Gold bars are sold in a variety of weights, and their weight determines their value. For example, a gold bar that is one ounce will be worth much less than a gold bar that is one kilo. Gold bars are measured in troy ounces, which is different from an avoirdupois ounce. An avoirdup...
The price of the Russell 1000 index is measured in points, not dollars, even though the stocks that comprise it are measured in dollars. The Russell 1000 price is the weighted average of all the components in the index. As the individual stocks rise and fall, the index follows, depending ...
Gold may be volatile in the short run, but the yellow metal is often seen as a longer-term store of value. In a 2012 research paper, Campbell Harvey and Claude Erb presented historical evidence that the wage of a Roman centurion as measured in gold was approximately the same as a U.S...
Measuring hedge fund manager performance is tricky because there’s no standard performance metric. Hedge funds can pick and choose how they measure performance, as opposed to mutual funds, where the SEC dictates how performance is measured. ...
Tradingvolumeis a measure of how much a givenfinancial assethas traded in a period of time. For stocks, volume is measured in the number of shares traded. For futures and options, volume is based on how many contracts have changed hands.Investors and day traderslook to volume to determine ...
Volume of trade is the total quantity of shares or contracts traded for a specified security. It can be measured on any type of security traded during a trading day. Volume of trade or trade volume is measured on stocks, bonds, options contracts,futures contracts, and all types of commoditie...