Chapter III: Historical Volume Trends are analyzed here, revealing seasonal patterns and the influence of the Business Cycle. |
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These charts analyze trends in the daily volume: The top chart plots the average daily volume on a monthly basis for BDX over the past 5 years. Blue marks the de-seasonalized trend, which is a least squares linear regression applied to the BDX prices after seasonal variations have been filtered out. Typical Seasonal Patterns might show a January Effect, and possibly some quarterly distortions due to the periodic release of financial reports. Cyclical Patterns represent longer term changes in trading volume that sometimes reflect the operations of the general business cycle. |
Refined Volume Trend Analysis for BDX : |
| Friday, March 19, 2010: We have news on AT and T, ticker symbol T. A significant moving average event has happened. Also, there are breaking events concerning L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. and Electronic Data Systems. From the News Archive: (3/18/2010 ) Bad news came from Mylan Inc., TECO Energy, Inc., MicroSoft, and Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.. |