What is Low Volume Telling Us?

"Volume, is the weapon of the bull, historically, and is generally essential to push the market higher."

...all else being equal, brisker volume lends more credence to a market move.

...when volume begins to pick up meaningfully…it's often close to a cyclical [market] peak in need of a consolidation," or a sideways-to-down rest period.

A three-billion-share day in NYSE stocks, now considered uneventful, would have been cheered as a feeding frenzy just a few years ago.