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 MER over the past 5 years. Blue marks the de-seasonalized trend, which is a least squares linear regression applied to the MER 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 MER : |
| Friday, February 18, 2011: We have news on Fiserv, Inc., ticker symbol FISV. Signs of an over-bought condition have become noticable. Also, there are breaking events concerning Zimmer Holdings, Inc. and D.R. Horton, Inc.. From the News Archive: (2/18/2011 ) Favorable events happened at Robert Half International Inc. and Southwestern Energy Company. Meanwhile, bad news came from McCormick & Company, Incorporated and Reynolds American, Inc.. |