{"id":83137,"date":"2021-04-09T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/?p=83137"},"modified":"2023-02-10T13:33:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T18:33:11","slug":"pump-up-the-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/options\/pump-up-the-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"Pump Up the Volume"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Traders and technical analysts typically pay close attention to volume statistics.&nbsp; In and of itself, volume does not offer much insight into a trading or investment decision.&nbsp; Volume is best viewed on a relative basis.&nbsp; If I tell you that a stock traded 10 million shares yesterday, that number on its own is essentially meaningless.&nbsp; It completely lacks context.&nbsp; If I tell you that the average daily volume in that stock is 2 million shares, it would be normal for you to wonder why yesterday\u2019s volume was 5X normal.&nbsp; If it normally trades 10 million shares a day, you would probably be unimpressed.&nbsp; Traders typically look to see whether a large move in a stock is accompanied by heavy or light volume, \u201cheavy\u201d and \u201clight\u201d can only be judged in comparison to the stock\u2019s prior volume history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A classic investment truism is the larger the volume, the more meaningful the price movement.&nbsp; Higher volume reflects higher conviction by the buyers or sellers who are driving the price action, while moves on lighter volume tend to be perceived as more likely to be transitory.&nbsp; One of the hallmarks of the stock market\u2019s rise off its pandemic lows was a spectacular increase in volume.&nbsp; Investors of all types were participating in the advance, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/123bfce0-8650-447c-9886-dbc754549f6b\">much was written<\/a> in the media about the new wave of individual investors who began participating in investment markets.&nbsp; The consensus view, which I share, was that the rise that we saw during the past 12 months was largely a high conviction move, as evidenced by stellar volume statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With that in mind, consider the following chart:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-s-p-500-index-spx-blue-vs-20-day-moving-average-of-total-us-share-volume-magenta-5-years\">S&amp;P 500 Index (SPX, blue) vs 20 Day Moving Average of Total US Share Volume (magenta), 5 years<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"485\" data-src=\"\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Volume-4.9-1100x485.png\" alt=\"S&amp;P 500 Index (SPX, blue) vs 20 Day Moving Average of Total US Share Volume (magenta), 5 years\" class=\"wp-image-83171 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Volume-4.9-1100x485.png 1100w, 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a calendar month)&nbsp; We see that there were volume spikes around the various declines in SPX, but that the pandemic drop in early 2020 resulted in volumes that were more than double the norms of the prior four years.&nbsp; Even as the volume spike passed, volume levels never fully reverted to those historic norms.&nbsp; We have become quite used to higher trading volumes.&nbsp; Interestingly, volume spiked earlier this year on a rally though.&nbsp; The following chart shows this in more detail:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-s-p-500-index-spx-blue-vs-20-day-moving-average-of-total-us-share-volume-magenta-6-months\">S&amp;P 500 Index (SPX, blue) vs 20 Day Moving Average of Total US Share Volume (magenta), 6 months<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"481\" data-src=\"\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Volume-2-4.9-1100x481.png\" alt=\"S&amp;P 500 Index (SPX, blue) vs 20 Day Moving 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\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out that the highs in volume roughly coincided with the height of the craze that surrounded GameStop (GME) and other \u201cmeme stocks\u201d.&nbsp; In hindsight, the volume wave was not surprising, though it was somewhat unusual to see a volume pop in a generally rising market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What then are we to make of the fact that the latest leg up in SPX is being done on decreasing volume?&nbsp; If technicians want to see market moves confirmed by higher volume, meaning higher conviction by buyers, then there is some risk to seeing an upward move on lighter volume.&nbsp; This would not be considered a red flag to most analysts, but it is not a positive sign either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see a similar pattern in options markets, as evidenced by the following graph:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-total-us-call-options-volume-green-put-volume-white-and-put-call-ratio-red-2-years\">Total US Call Options Volume (green), Put Volume (white), and Put\/Call Ratio (red), 2 years<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"465\" data-src=\"\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Options-Volumes-4.9-1100x465.png\" alt=\"Total US Call Options Volume (green), Put Volume (white), and Put\/Call Ratio (red), 2 years\" class=\"wp-image-83173 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Options-Volumes-4.9-1100x465.png 1100w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Options-Volumes-4.9-700x296.png 700w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Options-Volumes-4.9-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Options-Volumes-4.9-768x324.png 768w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Options-Volumes-4.9-1536x649.png 1536w, 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