While stock market exchange trade volume dropped by 7.1 billion shares from a volatile September to a rising market in October, a move that can be anticipated with declining volatility, don’t be deceived by the large year-over-year trade volume decrease says Tabb Group Analyst Valerie Bogard. A one-time aberration in October 2014 was causation for the year-over-year volume drop that was not correlated to the smallest industry trade size in 10 years for October 2015. What really could matter is a change in dark pool leadership and new proposed SEC rules that require dark pools to provide investors transparency. Year-over-year trading…
Stock Market Volume Drop Aberration, Watch SEC Dark Pool Rule Says Tabb
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.