declining volume

declining volume definition - finance
The number of companies whose price fell during the trading session. Volume is separated into declining volume, advancing volume, and unchanged. By comparing the volume of stocks that are advancing and the volume of stocks that are declining, it is possible to determine how strong the market move was. Volume details are published daily in financial newspapers.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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