A measure of the number of stocks advancing and declining in the market for a given trading session.
Teddy the Technical Analyst believes that when the number of advancers outpace the number of decliners in a stock index, it presents a breadth indicator...suggesting that investors are bullish.
In an unrelated story, Teddy’s girlfriend believes his breath indicator suggests he had fish sticks for lunc, and that he should eat a mint.
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Finance: What is a Liquid Market?17 Views
Finance allah shmoop What is liquid market Well it's one
that trades Ah lot High volume Lots of buyers Lots
of sellers Liquid lots of cash sloshing this way In
that way Go this way and that Did you ever
see a liquid market go this way and that That
little song Did you ever see a lassie Never mind
All right Weir Liquid markets Good Well because they implied
there's Lots of cash ready willing and able to be
put to work And that's usually a sign of a
healthy risk seeking active market versus risk averse one which
is you know hiding Ah liquid market means that investors
want to put their cash toe work that they have
actually saved cash along the way and or that they
have relatively easy access to credit And you can think
about it from the perspective of your kindly loving realtor
who wants a world where lots of people are buying
homes But in orderto have that happen you have to
have lots of people who are also selling homes at
the same time Otherwise prices just go higher and higher
with no supply to meet demand And at the end
of the day in real estate and it's in the
stock market while the most important thing yes that the
brokers get pays So that's a liquid market one that
trades a lot like it's Wet trading back and for
sloshing around not ice Where everything's you know all jammed 00:01:22.109 --> [endTime] up No needs heat or an animal or something
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