What is the trading cycle of the market?
What is the ebb and flow of the trading cycle and at what times of the day and week does most trading take place? Do Mondays typically start the week out with heavy trading and the market up and then ease down with less trading during the week and then Friday heavier trading and close up? And what is the cycle for the day? Start up, then ease down and then close up? I know there is news and such that affect the market and not every day is the same but I am talking about day to day typical cycle without huge disrupting factors. Newbie here trying to learn.
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There are some general patterns in the US stock market but in and of themselves, none of them are going to make you any money.
Monday tends to be the highest volume day of the week since there's 3 days of news instead of one. Tuesday tends to be the lowest volume day.
Mornings tend to trade higher volume due to accumulated weekend and pre-market news.
Volume is higher after company specific news. good or bad (earnings announcements, M&A, new products/discoveries, etc.). News drives price.
Volume is significantly higher when the market is falling (see 2008 and more recently, the China problems in January 2018 or the 20% market correction in December of 2018). Fear panics the herd.
There is no repetitive cycle that you can reliably bet on.
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