Millions of shares change hands each day on the world's stock exchanges, but not all price shifts mean the same thing. A stock rising on heavy trading volume tells a different story than one climbing ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Momentum is one of the most misunderstood ideas in trading. Many traders treat it as speed. If price moves quickly, momentum must be strong. If price slows, momentum must be fading. That assumption ...

The pivot from PoV (price over volume) — the strategy where companies defended profit with price while volume drifted lower — to the Battle for Volume has begun. Read more here.

Low volume breakouts challenge traditional trading rules as institutional accumulation precedes public participation in trend formation ...