Volume. Charts. Levels. Phantom Volume.

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May, 2009

Here is what is keeping me up at night. Ok. Maybe up during the  day:

So many of our traditional, historical perspectives of the market, and charts, and % moves, and predictive tools, use volume somewhere in the analytical equation.  I guess the simplest example is that we are used to  seeing the market advance on increasing volume, and decline (correct healthily) on decreasing volume.  Somewhere in these little rules of thumb that we have accumulated over time, is the intiuitively appealing notion that individuals and mutual funds buy stocks at $10, with the hope (or fear in case they are

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