Is volume overrated?...

I think volume has become somewhat overrated. A lot of people were fooled by the low-volume rallies we had earlier this year and missed some nice moves.

With that said, however, good volume can be powerful confirmation for your trades and a sign of when it might be a good idea to load up with greater share size. And for short-term trades, I'm always checking in Quotetracker and StockVision to find stocks that are trading more than their usual amount of volume. They seem to have a higher chance of making a nice clean move.
 
If you know how to 'read' volume in such a way that you can be profitable then no, it's not overrated and if you cannot 'read' volume than of course it is overrated.

It's all a matter of perspective.

:)
 
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