Poll: When will volume come back?

Discussion in 'Trading' started by colonial dr, Aug 14, 2012.

When will volume come back?

Poll closed Nov 12, 2012.
  1. Week of 8/19-8/24 (next week)

    3 vote(s)
    8.3%
  2. Beginning of September

    16 vote(s)
    44.4%
  3. October

    6 vote(s)
    16.7%
  4. November

    4 vote(s)
    11.1%
  5. After Holidays

    7 vote(s)
    19.4%
  1. really? we could open down 300 tomorrow on almost no volume if the right news came out.
     
    #11     Aug 15, 2012
  2. Last August was an anomaly. This seems more like normal late-summer trading, with people on vacation and not much going on in the news. Volatility will come back this fall, I have little doubt. Maybe by mid-September if we're lucky.
     
    #12     Aug 15, 2012
  3. Yes, similar comments are seen in many summers.

    Volatility cycles.
     
    #13     Aug 15, 2012
  4. +1

    90% of the volume is HFT rebate boxes, 5% is predatory algo's manipulating stop orders, the rest is hedge funds positioning and dumb buy and hold mutual funds and retail orders getting filled at the top of artificial moves.
     
    #14     Aug 15, 2012
  5. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    Isn't the volume typically low this time of year?
     
    #15     Aug 15, 2012
  6. Trend followers?
     
    #16     Aug 15, 2012
  7. Cl is great trading every damn day. Head on over. We'll play nice, promise :)
     
    #17     Aug 15, 2012
  8. Summer dulldrums. Happens every year.

    Next question please......
     
    #18     Aug 15, 2012
  9. You are not a real trader. You don't watch volume. You don't know what the SP did today, and you don't know how light things are or why. I have had you on ignore, but when I log off I see your posts again.

    Keep on posting. 1999. Wow. Mark Zuckerberg got far in less time.
     
    #19     Aug 15, 2012
  10. lol. i have been doing this profitably for 20 years. if you last even one year come back and lets talk.
    and no i dont watch volume. i dont even have volume on my charts.
     
    #20     Aug 15, 2012