Volume

Volume is how many shares or contracts changed hands in a period. About half of US stock volume is filled off exchange by wholesalers, and on a contract open interest says how much money is in the trade while volume says how much moved. Ninety times normal volume with no news is a mechanism, not a company.

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  • Open interestOpen interest is the total size of all open positions in a contract, how much money is in the trade. Rising open…
  • Settlement (T+1 in US)Settlement is when the cash and shares from a trade actually change hands; US stocks settle T+1, the next business…
  • Short interestShort interest is the number of a stock's shares sold short and not yet bought back, published twice a month by FINRA.…
  • Gap up and gap downA gap is a price opening far from where it last traded, with nothing in between. US stocks gap at 7:00 PM IST because…
  • Volatility / VIXVolatility is how much a price swings. The VIX is Cboe's index of how far the S&P 500 is expected to move over thirty…
  • Trading haltA trading halt freezes a US stock on every exchange at once. A news halt lets everyone read an announcement before…

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