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@Barchart Low weekly volume tells you traders are waiting instead of pressing. That keeps dealer inventory light, so when $SPY finally moves, the break tends to be fast and one directional.

@Barchart No one wants to touch the markets before midterms $SPY

@Barchart Everybody is sick of the blatant corruption that goes unchecked.

@Barchart x.com/DogeDiamondPaws/status/2…

@Barchart This low Vol and Vix can't continue. You might as well close the market.

@Barchart Lowest weekly volume in decades? The bigger question is what happens when traders come back. Does low liquidity set the stage for a breakout—or a sharper move in the opposite direction?

@Barchart Nothing to see here... Lol..

@Barchart Nobody is selling and nobody is chasing. That combination tends to resolve violently, just never on the schedule people expect.

@Barchart woah what a stat

@Barchart Lowest volume in 21 years isn't calm. It's everyone standing near the exit waiting for someone else to move first 👀

@Barchart Whatever you would have put in the market this year already went to bills.

Volume is the participation layer a lot of people skip. Lowest weekly volume since 2004 describes how few hands moved the tape. It does not tell you the next candle. Thin participation can make a quiet week look decisive. It is still a description of what already happened. Education only · Not trading advice · DYOR

@Barchart Rise and shine

@Barchart $SPY dead volume + pinned dealer positioning = summer chop. thin tape cuts both ways when someone actually shows up w size

@Barchart The dog days of summer, people are enjoying

@Barchart Tik Tok this market is fucked

@Barchart Normal for August

@Barchart Pullback on light volume is bullish

@Barchart Worth keeping this next to every chart posted this week. Low volume does not make a move wrong; it means fewer participants agreed on the price, so there is less behind the level if it gets challenged.

@Barchart amazing chart

@Barchart SPY's share of total S&P exposure has been shrinking for years as flows moved to VOO, IVV, and futures — low volume in one wrapper isn't low participation in the index. Worth checking the aggregate before reading this as complacency, though late August does its part.