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Trading volume is the number of shares trading back and forth at a given time.
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- 00:00
finance a la shmoop what is training volume training volume with a lot of
- 00:09
volume and this is trading with okay yeah yeah you get the idea [Man shouting into megaphone]
- 00:16
volume here is not about number 11 on the dial but rather about the number of [Person turning up volume dial]
- 00:21
shares trading back and forth on a given day week hour a month and generally
- 00:26
speaking higher levels of volume are a relatively bullish sign for the market [Water pouring]
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- 00:32
on all else being equal that is optimistic investors are putting money
- 00:36
into the system buying up stocks and contributing liquidity like they are [Investor money transfer to stock market]
- 00:41
seeking risk they're hopeful they're optimistic lots of volume high liquidity
- 00:46
low volume low liquidity and high is good
- 00:51
Inessa not just a california proposition 64 thing high volumes are attractive to [People protesting for cannabis]
- 00:56
large institutional professional traders and investors because there remains the
- 01:02
perception that if they want to sell a given position well then with high
- 01:06
volumes they can get out quickly so they feel less hesitation about getting in
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quickly okay good just checking [Man shouting into megaphone]
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