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.
+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.
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.
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.