Hello Friends, here I am up with a very important factor in Forex trading i.e. Volumes.
Role of Volumes in Trading and Investing
First of all let us understand what are Volumes.
Volume is simply the number of lots traded during a specified time frame (e.g., hour, day, week, month, etc). The analysis of volume is a basic yet very important element of technical analysis. Volume provides clues as to the intensity of a given price move.
????* INTERPRETATION* ????There are many ways to interpret changes in volume trends.
One common belief is that rising prices coupled with increased volume, and falling prices coupled with decreased volume, is bullish.
* *Conversely, if volume increases when prices fall and volume decreases when prices rise, the market is showing signs of underlying weakness.
—The theory behind this is straight forward. Rising prices coupled with increased volume signifies increased upside participation (more buyers) that should lead to a continued move. Conversely, falling prices coupled with increased volume (more sellers) signifies decreased upside participation
So,
* PRICE UP + HEAVY VOLUME = UPTREND IS SUSTAINABLE
* PRICE UP + LIGHT VOLUME = UPTREND COULD BE TEMPORARY
* PRICE DOWN + HEAVY VOLUME = DOWNTREND IS SUSTAINABLE
* PRICE DOWN + LIGHT VOLUME = DOWNTREND COULD BE TEMPORARY
Usually in an up-trending market volumes are heavy during up-moves and light during down-moves. So, a trader uses volume analysis for better entries.
HOW?Say USD/JPY is in an uptrend, everything seems strong. Suddenly it gets corrected a bit. Now that a pair is available at a better(lower) price to buy, people fear it could tank more and miss out opportunities to enter, only to find out that it starts to move up again.
In such cases smart investors and traders look at volumes. If they can clearly see that 'this correction' was not supported by significant volumes, they start buying into the market at better price than others.
???? OTHER USES ????Volumes not only give clues about strength of trend but also about validity of breakouts and breakdowns.
A resistance zone breached(breakout) with heavy volumes is regarded as a genuine breakout. Whereas a resistance breakout accompanied by light volumes usually results into false breakouts.
The case is same for support breakdown or a up or down trend-line breach.
So,
* Resistance breakout + heavy volumes= Genuine breakout
* Resistance breakout + light volumes= False breakout
* Support breakdown + heavy volume = Genuine breakdown
* Support breakdown + light volume= False breakdown
* Uptrend line breached on the downside + heavy volume= High chance of reversal
* Uptrend line breached on the downside + light volumes= Low chance of reversal
* Downtrend line breached on the upside + heavy volume= High chance of reversal
* Downtrend line breached on the upside + Light volume= Low chance of reversal
Earlier, I used to trade without considering or ignoring volumes, due to which I suffered losses also. It also helped me in guessing which way the trend may be.
Above information has helped me a lot in Forex trading so I choose to share it with all community members.
Good luck.
