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VOLUME TRADING [19 records]

Record 1 2024-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
DEF

[A market] situation in which only a few investors are buying and selling particular shares ... and any activity can cause a big rise or fall in prices ...

CONT

A thin market is characterized by light trading volume and erratic trading conditions. A thin market can apply to a single asset, a sector, or the entire market.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

Dans un marché étroit, les fluctuations de cours d'une opération à l'autre sont d'habitude plus prononcées que dans un marché liquide [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bolsa de valores
  • Inversiones
DEF

Mercado con muy pocas transacciones y/o de pequeño volumen por lo que la liquidez de los valores es reducida.

OBS

mercado estrecho: término y definición extraídos del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 2 2012-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
CONT

A technical trading indicator that is calculated by dividing the volume of advancing stocks relative to the volume of declining stocks by the number of advancing stocks relative to the number of declining stocks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
DEF

Market or security analysis involving the study of price movement and trading volume by plotting charts or graphs. This type of analysis seeks to recommend investment decisions by understanding and predicting investor attitudes and psychology.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
DEF

Analyse de valeurs mobilières ou du marché dans son ensemble fondée sur l'étude des fluctuations des cours et du volume des opérations à partir de graphiques et de tableaux.

CONT

L'analyse technique, c'est l'art, de plus en plus complexe, d'analyser un grand nombre de statistiques boursières. Cet art, on le divise en plusieurs segments : en particulier l'élaboration et l'interprétation de graphiques, et l'étude d'indicateurs statistiques. Plusieurs théories ou méthodes sont utilisées.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bolsa de valores
  • Inversiones
DEF

Método de enfocar el análisis de mercados de futuros, así como tendencias futuras de precios de los productos; se examinan: patrones en los cambios de los precios, tasas de cambio y cambios en el volumen de comercio e interés abierto.

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Record 4 2010-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
DEF

The large volume of self-employed in a developing country who are engaged in small-scale labour-intensive work as tailoring, food preparation, trading, shoe-repairing, etc.

OBS

These people are often regarded as unemployed or underemployed as they cannot be included in national employment statistics, but they are often highly productive and make a significant contribution to national income.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique
  • Coopération et développement économiques
CONT

L'économie parallèle. Que savons-nous à ce sujet? Les impôts élevés ont-ils réellement contribué à la croissance de l'économie parallèle? Les femmes sont-elles plus susceptibles que les hommes de travailler dans le secteur informel (p. ex. la garde d'enfants, le nettoyage, le troc, les travailleuses du sexe, les travailleuses domestiques)? Quelles sont les conséquences du travail dans l'économie parallèle pour les femmes sur le plan de la sécurité financière et de l'autonomie économique? Devrait-il y avoir des politiques pour décourager la croissance de ce secteur?

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía
  • Cooperación y desarrollo económicos
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Record 5 2009-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
OBS

The Chicago Board of Trade(CBOT), established in 1848, is the world's oldest derivatives(futures and futures-options) exchange. More than 3, 600 CBOT members trade 48 different futures and options products at the CBOT, resulting in 2000 annual trading volume of more than 233 million contracts.

OBS

The CBOT’s principal role is to provide contract markets for its members and customers and to oversee the integrity and cultivation of those markets. Its markets provide prices that result from trading in open auction or electronic platforms. The marketplace assimilates new information throughout the trading day, and through trading it translates this information into benchmark prices agreed upon by buyers and sellers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités nacionales no canadienses
  • Bolsa de valores
  • Inversiones
DEF

Uno de los mercados de materias primas más importantes del mundo.

OBS

Además de contratos sobre activos financieros y agrícolas (harina, soja, centeno, etc.) se negocian contratos sobre el derecho a contaminar, o fertilizantes.

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Record 6 2003-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Stock Exchange
CONT

The market price for a stock exchange seat or member trading permit fluctuates depending on the number of seats or permits available for purchase, and the demand for them. The latter is influenced by the trading volume on the exchange and the profitability of member-seatholders or permit holders.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Bourse
CONT

Le prix d'un siège en bourse ou d'un titre de membre varie en fonction du nombre de sièges ou de titres disponibles et de la demande pour ces sièges ou titres. Cette demande est fonction du volume des opérations à la bourse et de la rentabilité des opérations des détenteurs de sièges ou de permis.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inversiones
  • Bolsa de valores
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Record 7 1998-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
DEF

List of securities singled out for special surveillance by a brokerage firm or exchange or other self-regulatory organization to spot irregularities. Firms on the list may be takeover candidates, companies about to issue new securities or those that seem to have attracted an unusually heavy volume of trading activity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Préstamos
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Record 8 1997-10-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
DEF

The total number of shares traded on the stock market.

CONT

... on one day, trading volume on the New York Exchange set a new record : 28 250 000 shares.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
CONT

Il n'est pas rare que plus de 10 millions de titres changent de mains en une séance et le volume des transactions dépasse fréquemment un milliard.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bolsa de valores
CONT

A medida que se afiancen las reformas financieras en muchos países y con la aparición de las primeras instituciones de mercado en las economías en transición, se prevé que aumente también la actividad de los mercados de valores y que, como consecuencia, se produzca un gran aumento del volumen de negociación y fluctuaciones del precio de las acciones ...

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Record 9 1993-07-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
DEF

A sharp decline in stock prices for a short time on very heavy trading volume followed by a rally.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse

Spanish

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Record 10 1991-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
CONT

Large volume has been building up in the long term T-Bond contract trading at the Chicago Board of Trade and in stock index contracts trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and on the NYFE.

Key term(s)
  • stock index

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

Des volumes de plus en plus importants de contrats à terme de bons du Trésor à long terme se sont négociés au Chicago Board of Trade et de contrats sur l'indice des cours au Chicago Mercantile Exchange et au NYFE.

Key term(s)
  • contrat d'indices boursiers
  • contrat d'indices d'actions

Spanish

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Record 11 1989-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
CONT

All the stock exchanges maintain market surveillance departments to continuously monitor all listed trading activity to detect unusual changes in price and/or volume at an early stage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

Toutes les bourses ont un «service de surveillance du marché», dont le rôle est de surveiller en permanence toutes les opérations sur des titres cotés afin de repérer le plus tôt possible un volume ou des cours anormaux.

Spanish

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Record 12 1989-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
CONT

As option trading volume grew in 1976-77, each U. S. options exchange sought S. E. C. permission to expand its list of underlying securities on which calls could be based.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

Lorsque le volume des opérations sur options augmenta en 1976 et 1977 aux Etats-Unis, toutes les bourses d'options demandèrent à la S.E.C. la permission d'allonger leur liste des valeurs pouvant faire l'objet d'options d'achat.

Spanish

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Record 13 1989-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
CONT

This indicator related the total short position in New York to the average daily trading volume.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

Cet indicateur établit un rapport entre le total des positions à découvert au New York Stock Exchange et le volume moyen des opérations quotidiennes.

Spanish

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Record 14 1987-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
  • Stock Exchange
CONT

In October 1985, the London Metal Exchange(LME) was thrown into crisis when the International Tin Council(ITC) informed the LME that it could not pay its debt. The crisis, the largest in LME's history, was part structural and part functional and caused large losses to be sustained by LME members, a decline in trading volume of 50%, and a drop in the number of ring-dealers from 29 to 23.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
  • Bourse

Spanish

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Record 15 1986-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Stock Exchange
CONT

Trading statistics for these 300 stocks and 62 major and minor indexes that form the Toronto Stock Exchange 300 Composite Index. Includes 20 time series and 9 static facts including high, low and closing values, earnings per share, quoted market value, earnings adjusted to index, volume and value traded, price-earnings ratio, relative weight on composite, dividends per share, adjusted shares, dividends adjusted to index, aggregated earnings pool, dividend yield, and aggregate dividend payout.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Bourse

Spanish

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Record 16 1986-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Stock Exchange
CONT

Trading statistics for these 300 stocks and 62 major and minor indexes that form the Toronto Stock Exchange 300 Composite Index. Includes 20 time series and 9 static facts including high, low and closing values, earnings per share, quoted market value, earnings adjusted to index, volume and value traded, price-earnings ratio, relative weight on composite, dividends per share, adjusted shares, dividends adjusted to index, aggregated earnings pool, dividend yield, and aggregate dividend payout.

Key term(s)
  • relative weight on composite index

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Bourse

Spanish

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Record 17 1986-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Stock Exchange
CONT

Trading statistics for these 300 stocks and 62 major and minor indexes that form the Toronto Stock Exchange 300 Composite Index. Includes 20 time series and 9 static facts including high, low and closing values, earnings per share, quoted market value, earnings adjusted to index, volume and value traded, price-earnings ratio, relative weight on composite, dividends per share, adjusted shares, dividends adjusted to index, aggregated earnings pool, dividend yield, and aggregate dividend payout.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Bourse

Spanish

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Record 18 1986-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Stock Exchange
CONT

Trading statistics for these 300 stocks and 62 major and minor indexes that form the Toronto Stock Exchange 300 Composite Index. Includes 20 time series and 9 static facts including high, low and closing values, earnings per share, quoted market value, earnings adjusted to index, volume and value traded, price-earnings ratio, relative weight on composite, dividends per share, adjusted shares, dividends adjusted to index, aggregated earnings pool, dividend yield, and aggregate dividend payout.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Bourse

Spanish

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Record 19 1986-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Stock Exchange
CONT

Trading statistics for these 300 stocks and 62 major or minor indexes that form the Toronto Stock Exchange 300 Composite Index. Includes 20 time series and 9 static facts including high, low and closing values, earnings per share, quoted market value, earnings adjusted to index, volume and value traded, price-earnings ratio, relative weight on composite, dividends per share, adjusted shares, dividends adjusted to index, aggregated earnings pool, dividend yield, and aggregate dividend payout.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Bourse

Spanish

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