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Summary
Summary
Techniques to use trading volume as an indicator of market direction Trading on Volume is the first serious analysis of how to employ this accurate tool in today's fast-action trading environment. Specifically, it details how traders can pinpoint the rise, climax, and fall of the activity of market participants, and dramatically increase their opportunities to buy near stock or market bottoms and sell near tops. Trading on Volume describes the basics of volume, discusses the value of behavioral science in understanding volume, and then provides actual, market-tested techniques and strategies. Longtime market analyst Don Cassidy presents specific techniques to use volume to trade more efficiently, including: Volume crescendos, volume spikes, and crowd formation and dispersion How volume reveals market trends and trader psychology Practical applications using stocks and exchange-traded index funds
Author Notes
Donald Cassidy is senior research analyst and manager of money flows analysis for mutual fund tracking firm Lipper, Inc.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Part 1 Central Concepts: Theory and Action | p. 1 |
| Chapter 1 Volume Is the Cause, Price Is the Effect | p. 3 |
| Chapter 2 Reality: Random Walk or Behavioral Finance? | p. 17 |
| Chapter 3 Don't Contemplate. Act! | p. 39 |
| Part 2 Traditional Views on Volume | p. 57 |
| Chapter 4 Tick Volume and Daily Net Volume | p. 59 |
| Chapter 5 Daily Up or Down Price-and-Volume Combinations | p. 71 |
| Chapter 6 TRIN, or The Arms Index | p. 83 |
| Chapter 7 Equivolume and Ease of Movement | p. 97 |
| Part 3 Radical New Concepts and Approaches | p. 115 |
| Chapter 8 Institutions and the Internet: Enemies Wearing Red Coats | p. 117 |
| Chapter 9 Volume Crescendos: Beacons of Crowd Activit | p. 135 |
| Chapter 10 Volume Spikes and Their Psychological Aftereffects | p. 155 |
| Chapter 11 Lower Volume at Later Price Extremes | p. 187 |
| Chapter 12 Cautions About Misinterpreting Low Volume | p. 203 |
| Part 4 Practical Applications of Your New Volume Knowledge | p. 221 |
| Chapter 13 Using Information from the Most-Actives List | p. 223 |
| Chapter 14 Mutual Funds and Exchange-Traded Funds: Volume and Price Signals for Action | p. 237 |
| Chapter 15 Profiting from Year-End Phenomena | p. 255 |
| Chapter 16 Short-Term Applications | p. 271 |
| Chapter 17 Final Thoughts and an Integration of Themes | p. 287 |
| Appendix | p. 293 |
| Index | p. 297 |
