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Re: albertaguy post# 19852

Tuesday, 01/28/2020 4:26:44 PM

Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:26:44 PM

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Yeah, that how trades usually get called buys or sells. If for example someone dumps 100 shares into the bid, a lot of people will call that trade a sell. Many charts and trading platforms will color that volume red. So they'll say that there was 100 shares of sell volume. Of course they were only able to dump those shares because someone else bought them. So the same volume was also a buy. The problem comes when someone says, "All the volume today was sells", and someone else mistakenly thinks there were therefore no shares bought that day, when in fact there were just as many shares bought as sold.