NYSE, transacts around a fifth of all retail-trading volume in Nasdaq shares such as Amazon.com with software that runs on a desk-top computer.
High-frequency trading accounts for some two-thirds of all trading volume, experts say.
Of course, this doesn't mean investors should throw caution to the wind when trading a low-volume ETF.
The index is proportionally weighted based on foreign-exchange trading volume data from the Bank for International Settlements' triennial central-bank survey on global foreign-exchange market activity.
Look for the precious metals and most other markets to experience more quiet, low-volume trading all next week.
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Look for the precious metals and most other markets to experience more quiet, low-volume trading until after the holidays.
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Freddie added 4.7% to 92 cents in a second-straight session of high-volume trading.
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He added that he had seen a recent spike in exchange-traded-fund trading volume.
Look for the precious metals and most other markets to quiet down and see low-volume trading until after the holidays.
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According to Economatica, an equity analysis service covering companies across Latin America, the Bovespa hit the second-highest trading volume in its history this October.
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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Barring any major flare-up in the European Union debt crisis or some other geopolitical surprise development, look for the precious metals and most other markets to quiet down and see low-volume trading until after the holidays.
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D.s in London with experience in high-volume algorithmic trading, that could be market-moving news.
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One forecaster, the Boston consulting firm Tabb Group, predicts that the NYSE will see its share of the trading volume in NYSE-listed stocks fall from 40% this year to 32% by 2010.
In the spring of 2000, when stocks were hitting all-time highs and trading volume seemed limitless, the problem for Wall Street's titans was that upstarts were gobbling up a lot of the spoils.
Elliott Gue of Trading Floor Pro and Wall Street Winners just bought small South African miner Durban Roodeport Deep (nasdaq: DROOY - news - people ) on Friday, as the stock closed up 14% for the week, breaking out of a six-month trading range with huge volume.
Also driving the mergers: the need to boost listings, a core source of revenue for the exchanges as they battle to preserve their share of trading volume against competition from new market entrants like Kansas City-based BATS Trading, which siphons about 8% of Nasdaq's daily volume and 5% of NYSE volume.
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 stock took off as trading volume quadrupled to 13.5 million shares, compared with an average 3-month volume of 3.1 million shares.
Skate and surf clothing seller Quiksilver leapt to a seven-month high on triple its average trading volume.
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Or consider a broker who e-mails someone a question about the trading volume at which a certain stock would be likely to rise (or fall).
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Volume surpassed even short-term trading favorite Apple Inc. on those days.
High-frequency trading now makes up half of the volume, while an explosion of order types does little more than guarantee confusion for ordinary investors, increasing stress.
He also began scavenging the bombed-out landscape for acquisitions that would add trading volume.
They have to commit to a minimum trading volume, and a maximum margin between bid- and offer- prices.
The trading profits that have been so crucial to the big banks in recent years appear to have been hit as the September stock-market rally was built on relatively low trading volume and trading spreads have narrowed.
Traders suggest that the Fed's indication that it may be nearing the end of its cycle of interest-rate increases will probably make the volatility and trading volume jump even more.
Computerized trading--much of it kicked into gear by algorithmic programs designed to cut large orders into tiny slices to find the best prices (see "Stealth Trading")--now accounts for more than half the volume on U.S. exchanges.
"It was a very fast-moving market today, but the data for trading volume and value, while robust, were not terribly high relative to last Thursday's selloff, " said Yoshihiro Okumura, general manager for research at Chibagin Asset Management.
In addition, pre-crisis periods are often characterized by exponential growth in trading or transaction volume in the respective market or asset.
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