How to use Volume

How to use volumes…. This itself is long enough to write a few articles… :P first of all, how to use volumes depends on what method you are adapting to…. to start from basic, volume is formed when transaction is done… every transaction or every volume means an agreement of price between buyers and sellers…. Volume is like and indicator for the sustainability of trend…. To make it simple, it is like fuel for the flame… the flame represents the trend, no matter up or down… so, if you see volume dying down, it shows signs of dying flame too…. and vice versa… simple? :P

Now, homework….
1) Are the statements correct?
a. Low volume equals illiquid.
b. Low volume equals price is about to drop.
2) What is true low volume and what is relative low volume? What is the significance?

Ok, lets go a bit deeper, if we are using trends or phases… how do we incorporate volume into them? Basically, we can generally divide the trend into three types or phases:
3) Uptrend
4) Downtrend / Distribution
5) Range bound

How does volume come in? Well, as stated above, when we see price moving uptrend, a healthy one will be accompanied with increasing volume because this means more people agree and supports the increasing price… so we can say it is sustainable…. and vice versa…

How about range bound? during range bound, volume is also normally in range… why? Because less transactions involved… now, towards the end of range, volume will pick up… because there will be more and more people involved and more transactions are being done… this is called public participation…

Homework:
1) Does public participation or volume picking means that uptrend is next?
2) Revise a bit on supply Vs demand.

Ok, stop here first, leave the deeper stuff for later… :P do post your answers and questions if you don’t understand or require further information…


Regards and happy learning

What is KLCI?

Hello,

When we talk about the market, generally, we refer to the KLCI... however, do we really know what is KLCI, how is it calculated, what determine its movements and how the movements affect other counters? well, this may be very basic to most people, but i do think it is important to know the basics first so that we can understand the complicated.... :)

1) KLCI is calculated with this formula:

Current aggregate Market Capitalisation x 100 ­base­

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Aggregate Market Capitalisation

2) wat are the counters tat is used to calculate? the answer is in http://%20www.bursamalaysia.co%20m/website/bm/%20market_information/%20index_components.htm%20l

so, this also means tat, the KLCI does not represent the whole market, because not all counters are used to calculate it... some would prefer to use market breath... but then again, for TA readers, so far, i have not seen a chart tat uses market breadth.... wat to say use the beloved indicators on it? hehe.... tat is why, the closest you can get might still be the CI when you want to use TA... hehe... :P

and the CI is determined by the price and not the other way around... (questionable) that statement is theorically correct, but practical wise, it depends... i will explain more on this in the next article.... or else this one will be very long... hehe... :P

Regards

Why bother about the basics?

As I have mentioned earlier, this is a learing blog. So the first on the agenda will obviously be about the basics.. I think it is very important that we have a strong foundation first before we do anything..

How high a building can be built will always depend on how strong the foundation are...

So, before we move into Fundamental or Technical analysis, let us look at some basic knowledge about stocks....