volume correlates then good alongside volatility, I honour it real useful to rails the relative book of the day's marketplace every bit a agency of seeing how today's book at each half-hour menses stacks upwards to the median book from the concluding few months. (For a listing of those half-hour norms, check this post).
Note how, inwards the bottom chart, today's book dramatically brutal curt of its norms starting alongside the 10:30 AM one-half hour. Recognizing that was real helpful inwards anticipating a slow, arrive at market as well as adjusting trading accordingly. (I sat out the afternoon session to this betoken for this real reason).
It's a uncomplicated calculus: large traders deed markets. If nosotros don't come across large traders participating inwards the trade, the markets aren't probable to move.
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