Wall Street Insider Swears Money Pulling Method Is Not Illegal

by Shawn Tilman

Master Wall Street insider swears under oath: this stock market tool is NOT illegal!

Steve Cohen, a master trader, is known to use this indicator for his billion dollar hedge fund company. Mr. Cohen’s trading profits average over 50% a year!

Over 50 stock traders work for him. He is a guru of following a stock’s volume.

Volume is one of the most overlooked indicators by amateur traders.

Even if you think you understand volume, you owe it to yourself to read this article to make sure you understand how to correctly interpret volume for massive profits.

Think of each tick in the volume as a temporary meeting of two minds: a seller and a buyer. Shares or contracts that have exchanged hands are measured by volume. Volume is usually represented by a histogram bar. The volume reveals secret motives and psychology of bear traders as well as bulls. Increasing volume verifies trends while decreasing volume questions the longevity of the current trend.

In a sell off, increasing volume into the move tells you that panic has firmly settled in as traders scramble for the exit. If you look carefully, you’ll also see newbies jumping in as they bet the market is going to reverse. Keep in mind that in order for a sell order to execute, someone has to be a buyer. Every trade has these two sides. Jumping in to buy in a downtrend is known as trying to catch a falling knife. Most often it is a bad idea. Never bet against the wisdom of the crowd. Let some other newbie put on that trade. When all the sellers have exited the stock, the volume on the downside falls off as the downward move begins to run out of steam.

In an uptrend, rising volume shows that greed is setting in as people dog pile into the stock. It also shows sellers dumping their position betting that the market is going to turn around. Remember, in order for a buy order to execute, there has to be a seller somewhere. Selling into an uptrend makes sense only if your original profit thesis (target) has been met. When all the buyers are done chasing the stock higher, the volume on the upside falls as the uptrend runs out of steam.

But volume tells more than just the conviction of the current trend. Volume gives traders several useful clues.

A one-day splash of uncommonly high volume often marks the beginning of a trend when it accompanies a breakout from a trading range. A similar splash tends to mark the end of a trend if it occurs during a well established move. Exceedingly high volume, three or more times above average, identifies market hysteria. That is when nervous bulls finally decide that the uptrend is for real and rush in to buy or nervous bears become convinced that the decline has no bottom and jump in to sell short.

A divergence between volume and price usually means that a stock is at a turning point.

If price rises while volume falls, it is a signal that the uptrend is not attracting very much interest. If price falls to a new low and volume falls at the same time, it is a signal that the downtrend is not attracting very much interest and an upside reversal is likely. Price is more important than volume but a master traders knows how to analyze volume in order to gauge the psychology of market participants.

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