Option volume remained light on Monday, with total volume on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) dropping to 3.3 million contracts from 3.7 million on Friday.
Two weeks later, FNP reversed to the upside with a strong close but the volume was light.
Market volume was light Wednesday as New York City and surrounding areas continue to work to clean up the mess left by the storm.
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Light volume allowed traders to push stocks farther than they might have fallen otherwise.
Today, a light volume tape can be expected due to the Columbus Day holiday.
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So as market participants, there have been things to do despite light volume.
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Volume has been light and momentum has been lacking, but overall the action has been constructive for swing traders.
Another light volume name from Emerging Global Shares, the Emerging Markets Financials Titans ETF (NYSE: EFN) devotes 3% of its weight to Hungary.
Volume was very light yesterday, though, and futures are firming up a bit this morning as Washington resumes fiscal cliff talks in earnest.
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Buyers of the call options last week appear to be hanging on to their positions, given relatively light volume changing hands at those strikes this afternoon.
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Trading volume is typically light on a holiday shortened week.
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Volume has been light in the up-move and yesterday the index rallied late to post a marginal gain, but today is the first sign of some real anxiety across the pond.
We normally wouldn't touch airlines with a ten-foot pole, but the short-term technicals are positive, with the stock breaking higher out of a multi-month base, pulling back on light volume and accelerating higher again.
Among my reasons, I noted that volume in the rally was very light compared to the volume on the down-days during the correction, which indicated insiders and large institutional investors who were selling during the correction, were not believers in the sustainability of the rally and were not participating, more likely waiting to begin selling again when the rally ends.
Specifically, it computed the evolution of a cubic volume measuring about 1 billion light-years on a side, a volume that would contain over a million galaxies.
The Dow Jones Industrials lost 0.15 percent for the week in light trade volume.
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The markets managed to pick up some momentum today, despite a mixed bag of economic data and light trading volume.
Volume does remain alarmingly light, however, which gives traders some pause.
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Average volume on JYF is relatively light at approximately 1300 shares traded per day.
"I wanted something which would make the best possible use of the light and the volume of space provided me, " says Mr. Buren.
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Many individual investors could overwhelm the liquidity on either the buy or the sell side of BDL with this light level of volume.
Passover begins Tuesday and the markets are closed on Good Friday, so trading volume is likely to be very light.
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Technically, volume in the rally is very light, less than 0.8 billion shares traded daily on the NYSE, compared to as many as 1.6 billion on the down-days during the correction.
As a conductor of light beams, a given volume of the fibers can carry many times as many impulses as a similar volume of copper wire, and may eventually obsolete the latter in telephone communications--as well as in computers, aircraft and for many military purposes.
Wines that are 7 percent to 14 percent alcohol by volume may list alcohol content or put "light" or "table" wine on the label.
While the company is a little light on specifics of the low-volume rollout, it does highlight some of the features available to IT departments that should make transitioning easier.
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It is this story that Rick Atkinson tells in "The Guns at Last Light, " the third and concluding volume of his history of the U.S. experience fighting in Europe between 1942 and 1945.
Come 2012, Light Blue Optics wants to go high volume, selling between 10, 000 and 100, 000 devices the size of a mobile phone, that can project an even bigger image (15 inches wide), and soon after that bring out a device the size of a USB stick.
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That said, the 2% by volume that goes by air accounts for around 35% of the value: light, expensive goods such as high-end electronic components tend to be flown.
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