Volume & Price Action

What volume reveals about buyers, sellers and big money.

1. Reading Volume Bars — What volume measures, how to compare today’s volume with normal volume, and why a price move on heavy volume means more than the same move on light volume.
2. Accumulation vs. Distribution — How to spot big investors quietly buying (accumulation) or selling (distribution) by watching which days carry the heaviest volume.
3. Volume Dry-Ups Before Breakouts — Why volume often shrinks to very low levels just before a stock breaks out of a base, and how to use the dry-up and the breakout-day surge together.
4. Climax Volume & Reversals — How the heaviest volume of a move can mark its end, with real examples of a buying climax at a top and a selling climax at a bottom.
5. Up/Down Volume Ratio — A simple number that sums the volume of up days and down days over a period, and what real readings for the S&P 500, Corning and Avis told us.
6. VWAP and Anchored VWAP — What the volume-weighted average price tells you, how day traders use daily VWAP, and how anchored VWAP from a key date shows who is in profit.