ASU2003

Is there any way to figure out from the volume number, the percentage or number of buy orders vs sell orders coming in?

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ecn?s=INTC

If you look at that page, you can see the bid and ask price and how many shares are available if you are willing to pay or sell at that price. But, I am interested in how many shares were bought and how many were sold. I assume that if more shares were sold, than the stock price would go down, and if more were bought, it would go up.

eribrav

Not sure what, exactly you are asking. Each transaction involves a buy and a sell. There are two parties involved. When you sell stock, someone else is buying it.

When there are more people looking to sell then there are buyers, price moves down and more buyers are recruited into the market to buy the available shares. The opposite is when there is strong buying interest; then the price moves up until more shares become available for sale.

Does that help?

Rummey

Right, if you see higher than average volume on an day when the price advances that means the buyers where lots of buyers which caused the price to increase, the opposite is true when there is an abundance of sellers.

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