What could be the difference between "volume" and "number of trades" in stock market analysis software?
What could be the difference between "volume" and "number of trades" in stock market analysis software?
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My broker software reports 2 different numbers for "volume" and "number of trades". However, if I look on
investopedia
it lists "volume" to be the number of trades. The volume number is usually 2-3 digits larger than the other number. What do these two different numbers mean?
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For stocks, volume is the number of
shares
traded. A trade can be (and almost always is) for multiple shares, and is usually a multiple of 100, which is why the volume is 2-3 digits more than the number of trades.
I don't see where your link defines "volume" as "number of trades".
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Quoted from Forex.com.bd-Editorial External question — Personal Finance Stack Exchange Author: wdkrnls Source score (net votes, not local likes): 1 Original post: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/151335 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. My broker software reports 2 different numbers for "volume" and "number of trades". However, if I look on investopedia it lists "volume" to be the number of trades. The volume number is usually 2-3 digits larger than the other number. What do these two different numbers mean?
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