This year, average daily volume is up to 15, 440, 608 in average daily volume, according to the OCC.
The daily average export volume increased 7.2% internationally and the profit margin dropped to 15.4% from 16.2%.
The number of shares short is then compared to the average daily volume, in order to calculate the total number of trading days (at the average volume) it would take to close out all of the open short positions if every share traded represented a short position being closed.
It only features companies who have a minimum average daily trading volume of 600, 000 shares.
Eurodollar futures and options trading also picked up, bolstering average daily volume for the company.
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This included iShares MSCI Japan ( EWJ), which has an average daily trading volume of 45 million shares.
The average daily volume of energy contracts increased by almost 23% in Q1 2011 compared to prior year quarter.
As many shares as the average daily trading volume of the entire NYSE.
Wipro (WIT) made the ValuEngine list, but their average daily volume sank below the required 600, 000 to be listed here.
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Average daily trading volume in May alone was 7% lower than the first quarter in commodities and 14% lower in credit.
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The average daily volume of equity securities traded in the U.S. stock markets has consistently climbed over the past few years.
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The biggest jump in average daily volume was between 2006 and 2007 when volume went from 8, 079, 074 contracts to 11, 405, 682 contracts.
The average daily volume in options has increased at least slightly each year since 2002, according to the Options Clearing Corporation.
Its 11.3% move up on Friday was on nearly 25 times its average daily volume of 136, 452 shares over the past three months.
In midday trading, the volume on the stock is 1, 143, 000, which is a 31.54% difference from its 65-day average daily volume of 849, 388.
Growth in average daily volume is attributable to a strong rise in Treasury and Eurodollar volume, which increased by 30% and 23% respectively.
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The average daily volume of interest rate contracts increased by almost 25% in Q1 2011 compared to the same quarter of the prior year.
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Investors intrigued by the strategy might easily be put off by its low average daily trading volume of 43, 000, according to Morningstar Inc. data.
This accumulation of pessimistic positions is nearly 11 times the stock's average daily trading volume and accounts for 25% of the company's total float.
Growth in average daily volume is attributed to changes in fundamental supply and demand factors, improvement in economic recovery as well as increased geopolitical uncertainty.
Shares of the Wellington, Florida based company accumulated a volume of 2, 955, 288, which is a 200% difference from its 65-day average daily volume of 985, 524.
Average daily volume for copper futures and options in the first quarter was 63, 461 contracts, a 41% jump from the same period a year ago.
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Some 16.4 million shares traded, four times the average daily volume.
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Average daily stock volume rose 10% at the NYSE last year, and program trading accounted for 57% of daily trades, up from 50% the year earlier.
"This indicates that it would take more than half a month of trading at the average daily trading volume to cover the current short positions, " he says.
In 2005, average daily volume at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange soared 34% from a record 2004, and the number of contracts traded for the year surpassed 1 billion.
We expect average daily volume of energy contracts to continue double digit annual growth reach about 3.7 million contracts in the coming years from 1.67 million in 2010.
Based on the number of shares shorted and Bank of America's average daily trading volume, it would take more than nine days to close out all those positions.
The launch of CME Clearing Europe which will clear more than 150 OTC energy and commodity products will support the growth of average daily volume of energy products.
In the first three months of 2011, CBOE traded average daily volume of 5.08 million contracts, up 11.6% compared with 4.55 million for the same period in 2010.
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