medium · Volume Price Analysis vpa-core
A practitioner is using a 233-tick chart for the ES E-mini. They notice that while every candle represents 233 transactions, the volume bars vary significantly.
What does a 'low volume' bar on this tick chart represent?
- Institutional traders were stop-hunting
- There were only 80 transactions in that candle
- The market took a long time to complete 233 ticks
- The 233 transactions were mostly small retail orders
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