Day Trading Stocks - Where's the Volume

Equities Volume off 18.5% 2012 – Click: http://goo.gl/owu3T - more: http://goo.gl/brmsk

My Introduction:

So you’ve been thinking a lot about volume the past few months, asking yourself – why are the markets and stock so quiet lately?

Well there are many reasons why the markets and stocks trade lighter than what we have experienced the past few years – the weak economic outlook, the political quagmire before, during and after the election, businesses and consumers not knowing what to expect for rules and taxes for the future, and a pervasive mood of distrust of the markets given the software glitches that show up regularly causing major price swings, thus mistrust overall by traders and investors alike.

Check this out – source TradersMagazine.com:

“Volume dropped from 10.2 billion shares a day in 2011, to 8.0 billion shares a day in 2012. Those stats cover the 10 national exchanges operated by NYSE Euronext, Nasdaq OMX, BATS Global Markets and Direct Edge, as well as the three tiers of over-the-counter trading conducted by OTC Markets Group.”

“The peak was 2009, when 6.9 billion shares were traded a day, according to SIFMA statistics. That was the first full year of the credit crisis that erupted in September 2008.”