About Day Trading: Buying Volume, Selling Volume, or Both
| from Adam Milton This week's day trading newsletter provides a variety of information for beginning and experienced traders alike, including: - an introduction to trading stock indexes using futures and options markets, - a discussion of how total volume is divided into buying volume and selling volume, - a profile of the OMXS 30 stock index and futures market, - and the weekly economic calendar with volatility expectations. |
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In the Spotlight |
Trading Stock Indexes If you are a new trader that is wondering how you can trade a stock index like the Nasdaq or the FTSE 100 ... the answer is that you can't. The stock indexes that we are all familiar with, and that are reported in the financial news, cannot actually be traded directly. The stock indexes are actually traded using ... find out how to trade the stock indexes | | Buying Volume, Selling Volume, or Both Every trade requires both a buyer and a seller to trade the same contract at the same price in order for the trade to occur. This means that there is a trader buying a contract (or number of shares, or forex lot), and a trader selling the same contract, at the same time. If the same contract is being both bought and sold at the same time, how can a trade be classified as either buying volume or selling volume ... find out how volume is classified | Profile of the OMXS30 Futures Market The OMXS30 futures market is based upon the OMXS 30 stock index, which is the primary stock index of the OMX Nordic Exchange in Sweden. The OMXS30 index consists of the 30 largest capitalization companies that are traded on the Stockholm stock exchange. The OMXS 30 index is calculated in real time, and the OMXS30 futures market ... read the profile | Sponsored Links | | | | Advertisement |