- volume
- an amount or quantity of business activity. Glossary of Business Terms————The number of purchases or sales of a commodity futures contract made during a specific period of time, often the total transactions for one trading day. Chicago Board of Trade glossary————The number of futures contracts, calls, or puts traded in a day. Volume figures use the number of longs or shorts in a day, not both. Such figures are reported on the following day. The CENTER ONLINE Futures Glossary————This is the daily number of shares of a security that change hands between a buyer and a seller. Also known as volume traded. Also see up volume and down volume. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary————The number of contracts in futures or options on futures made during a specified period of time. At CME, it refers to "aggregated quantity" ( i.e., total traded volume of the day). The published exchange volume figure consists of all trades executed on the trading floor, CME Globex and by Exchange-For-Physical (EFP). Chicago Mercantile Exchange Glossary————Amount of trading activity, expressed in shares or dollars, experienced by a single security or the entire market within a specified period, usually daily, monthly, or annually. Exchange Handbook Glossary————The number of bonds, shares and securities that are traded on the Stock Exchange for a given period.————The total number of contract lots traded in a designated period of time. LIFFE————The daily cumulative volume for each security. London Stock Exchange Glossary
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1. the amount of space that a substance or object contains or fills:• The US gallon is about five-sixths the volume of the UK gallon.
2. the total amount of something:volume of• The volume of exports was up 4% on the previous 4 months.
• the high volume of traffic at O'Hare airport
• 59% of companies reported that sales volume was lower than a year ago.
• The telephone company began offering a new volume discount (= price reduction for using a large amount of goods or services ) for business customers.
3. FINANCE the total amount of activity on a stockmarket, usually measured by the number of shares that have been traded in a particular period of time:• Volume dropped sharply to 113.5 million shares.
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volume UK US /ˈvɒljuːm/ noun [C or U] (ABBREVIATION vol.)► the amount of space that is contained within an object, or that is filled by an object or substance: »What is the volume of the fuel tank?
► the total number or amount of something: »The helpline could not handle the volume of calls from people having problems.
by volume »The company is now the number one swimwear retailer by volume.
»Imports of consumer goods have risen in volume by 10%.
»Retail sales volumes rose by 5.4% in the year to May in Sweden.
► STOCK MARKET the total number of shares that are bought or sold on a stock market within a particular period of time: »Trading volume totaled more than 2.8 million shares.
»The average daily volume has been 700,860 shares a day for the past three months.
heavy/light/moderate volume »There could be volatility before year-end due to light volume.
→ See also HIGH VOLUME(Cf. ↑high volume), LOW VOLUME(Cf. ↑low volume), SALES VOLUME(Cf. ↑sales volume)
Financial and business terms. 2012.
