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Volume
The number of contracts traded for each delivery month during a specified trading period.
The number of stocks traded during a given trading period.
The Volume figure is useful for tracking if there has been an unusually large amount of activity in a particular instrument.
Some instruments (like spot Forex) do not have volume figures available for them. In cases such as this, traders will sometimes use Ticks as a proxy.
The number of stocks traded during a given trading period.
The Volume figure is useful for tracking if there has been an unusually large amount of activity in a particular instrument.
Some instruments (like spot Forex) do not have volume figures available for them. In cases such as this, traders will sometimes use Ticks as a proxy.
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