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.
So far on Wednesday morning, Sprint is trading about 2% higher and was the second most actively traded stock by volume.
Getco already casts a tall shadow over daily trading, by some estimates roughly 20% of stock market volume, so for it the move is symbolic of changes it has been trying to lead over the last decade.
Huge stock trading volume spikes in the last couple of days have been a boon not only to the exchanges but to the new crop of alternative trading sites that have been trying to siphon market share away from them.
The employment contract of former Salomon Smith Barney telecom analyst Jack Grubman granted him compensation both for bringing in specific investment banking deals and for generating stock trading volume in the issues he covered, according to an attorney familiar with the document.
The stock saw call volume of 24, 783 contracts yesterday, compared to 17, 695 put contracts.
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Last week saw the lowest average weekly New York Stock Exchange composite volume in more than a year.
The stock saw call volume of 46, 044 contracts on Thursday, compared to put volume of 29, 964 contracts.
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For instance, the stock saw buy volume of roughly 3.25 million shares on Thursday, compared to sell volume of 2.89 million shares.
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Some 40 million shares in Elan have been traded already, making it the highest volume stock on the New York Stock Exchange today.
Only about 2.2 billion shares changed hands in New York Stock Exchange composite volume, making Friday the slowest full trading day of the year.
Just over two billion shares changed hands in New York Stock Exchange composite volume Tuesday, less than half the daily average of 4.3 billion shares this year.
Chaikin is a quant from way back, using the first wave of PCs in the 1980s to hone his analyses of stock price and volume patterns on Wall Street.
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Specifically, 9, 785 puts traded on the stock, versus call volume of just 7, 516 contracts.
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Specifically, 37, 362 puts traded on the stock, versus call volume of 45, 956 contracts.
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In Japan, for example, a wave of optimism unleashed by the government's vow to defeat deflation and reignite the economy pushed stock-market trading volume up 46% between January and March from a year earlier.
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It also intends to reduce the volume of stock held by 35% in order to make room for equipment returning from Afghanistan and Germany in central depots, some of which are already at 90% capacity.
According to TradeTheNews.com, volume on the New York Stock Exchange was more than 9% above its three-month average Tuesday, while Nasdaq volume was up 11%.
Volume on the stock, though, was more than 6 times the float on Wednesday, at about 11.45 million.
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The stock took off as trading volume quadrupled to 13.5 million shares, compared with an average 3-month volume of 3.1 million shares.
Options volume on the stock is heaviest, however, in the December expiry.
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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.
Options on Research In Motion are some of the most active today, with volume on the stock approaching 110, 000 contracts in early-afternoon trade.
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Now, partly thanks to flash orders, Direct Edge is the third-largest stock trading platform by matched volume in the country, according to Raymond James.
The subject of price and volume patterns of stock charts is widely dismissed or asked to sit in the back seat of financial studies.
The stock dropped 19% on volume four times its three-month average.
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Options implied volatility on the Beijing-based company increased 11.2% to 47.03% as of 1:00pm in New York, with overall options volume on the stock exceeding 99, 930 contracts.
He then tallies up the dollar value of those past and predicted earnings and compares it to the average daily trading volume in the stock, as measured in dollars, over the previous year.
Total trading was the year's highest, with overall volume of New York Stock Exchange stocks exceeding 4.9 billion shares.
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.
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