For traders who intend to profit from declining stock prices, short sale volume data can be a useful metric to add to your technical analysis. It not only gives an indication of the amount of shorted ...

Volume, or the amount of trading activity per security, is one way for investors to gauge investment trends as well as momentum. How much trading interest does a security have? One way to measure it ...

Volume is an important factor for day traders, and it relates to how many shares of a particular stock is traded for a given time period. This helps traders understand how liquid the stock is, which ...

Trading volume refers to the total number of shares or contracts traded in a given period. It’s used to measure the market’s activity and liquidity during a certain period of time — like a day. It’s ...

Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated history of working in both institutional and retail environments, from broker-dealers to ...

In today’s complex and low-latency electronic futures trading marketplace, achieving optimal execution performance with a Volume-Weighted-Averaged-Price (VWAP) trading strategy has never been more ...

Ether’s 78% price recovery since July 2022 is at risk of exhaustion due to an unconvincing volume profile. A “volume profile” indicator displays trading activity across prices, with the blue ...

Options trading volumes are booming again in 2025, as the industry heads toward what would be a sixth straight year of record activity. One subset of the market has been particularly active of late: ...

While the crypto markets are clearly led by the swings of Bitcoin and Ethereum, outliers are frequent — and identifying them is often what separates the average traders from the great ones. Compared ...

In this and future posts, I thought it might be useful to provide some real-world applications of machine learning in a trading context. Because machine learning is such a broad topic, I am going to ...