How to Trade Volume: Tutorial

We quickly want to show you the basics of adding volume to your chart. Especially what that means and how it can be used. At its core volume shows you how many buyers and sellers transacted at a specific price. It shows you how many shares, contracts or coins were traded over a specific period of time.

Some traders use volume to confirm trends, measure popularity, and look for abnormal trading activity.

Volume is different from Volume Profiles in the sense that Volume shows you how much trading Volume occurred at a specific point in time. Volume Profiles show how much trading Volume occurred at a specific price. We explain this later on in the video toward the end.

Adding volume to your chart is easy. Open the Indicators menu and then search for Volume. From there, you can edit Volume to show you a moving average and change its color or appearance.

[synznet]

Thanks Tradingview team for this kind of useful tutorial 👍🏽

[engineeringnerds]

The best video about volume I have ever seen on you tube.. Thank you ☺️

[AnshulKumar]

Very helpful video, your efforts made it easy for a layman like me to understand the concept. Thank you!

[MrStlover]

Tradingview videos are great, damn!!!.

[yaesmucho]

Thankyou, Tradingview is totally worth it, set for life maybe. Is there a life time Membership discount by the way LOL?

[drravikishore]

Perfect video for understanding the volume.Short and crisp.Thank you very much 👍.
Can we do backtest volume along with the candlesticks on smaller timeframes (3mins) on trading view premium plans?

[hereD]

Great informative video, i'm a total newbie to the stocks and these are perfect for me to educate myself. Thank you!!

[rahultareni]

What does green and red bar in volumes mean ?
Does this mean Green - More people bought that day compared to people selling
Red - More people sold that day when compared to buying
Sorry i am new to stock and for silly question ?

[The_Ashthetic]

Very good video..👍👍👍 love the background color as well..😁

[tonyHern]

what are the blue and yellow colors for volume profile means?

[Mark-czvw]

How do i increase the size of the volume bars themselves?? the bars are so micro on lower time frames. I cant find it any where! Everyone has these big bars but nobody shows how to actually make them bigger!

[tuffcityprix]

I don't see a question mark by the indicator in the indicator list

[abderrahimchekired]

i am having a probleme, when i presse volume indicator it says ¨NO VOLUME DATA ¨ how i can fix it ?😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

[krishvora]

Hey, well explained. So suppose if i want to know 52 week average volume. So in that case can i

1. Add the Volume Indicator
2. Set the time interval to weekly
3. Go to the indicator settings and under inputs if i set the MA Length to 52 .
4. Under indicator settings if i add the Volume MA line.

Then if i hover the mouse in the graph will the white line give me the 52 week average volume?

[johnstamos]

can anyone inform me on the difference between the yellow and blue on volum eprofile? i assume yellow means more selling, and blue means buying? any advice would be helpful! great video!

[BrownMunda-oerq]

Currently this volume indicator showing half volume on the chart for each candlestick

[kruthive]

Thanks for the informative video. I am new to Trading View. Many charting providers do not provide volume for stock indices as indices are not directly traded like individual stocks. But you seem to provide the volume indicator for indices as well. What exactly does that volume value indicate in case of stock indices?

[anonymous.reporter.global]

What does a (color based on a previous close siglifies) on this volume indicator? Please elaborate..

[mixlo]

should volume on intraday charts add up to daily volume count? i've flipped from 24hr to 1hr candles, and the 1hr candles tally up to a way smaller amount

[gameeror]

Hi, thanks for the video. What is the unit for volume in forex market ? If I see Vol = 20.000K on EURUSD, is that mean 20 000 euros was traded or 20 000 lots (value 100 000) ?