On Low Volume
A stock is trading on low volume if it is trading less right now than it normally trades at this time of day.
High Ease of Movement reading signals that prices rose on low volume and that little volume will be required to change the price of the stock or futures contract in the near term.
The broad market's poor performance occurred on low volume (less than a billion shares were traded on the NYSE), suggesting a lack of conviction of sellers; however, low volume output has also characterized the market's strong rise in September, ...
What Dow was saying here was that there are many reasons why price may move on low volume, but when prices move on high volume there is a greater chance that the move is representative of the overall market’s view.
Stocks can fall for a very long time on low volume when they can't gather an enthusiastic crowd of investors or speculators These slow-bleed declines will cut right through common support and moving averages, ...
High positive values indicate the price is increasing on low volume: strong negative values indicate the price is dropping on low volume.
If a stock is trading on low volume, then there aren't many traders involved in the stock and it would be more difficult to find a trader to buy from or sell to. In this case, we would say that it is illiquid.
To quote the SEC: "Penny stocks generally have market caps under $500M and are considered extremely speculative, particularly those that trade on low volumes over the counter.
A situation in which the stock market is rising on high volume or falling on low volume.
Technically Weak Market
A situation in which the stock market is rising on low volume or falling on high volume.
For instance if a stock declined 2% on low volume you may see small red SBV Oscillator area and you may say that this stock is lightly oversold. In other case the same stock declined 2% again, yet on much higher volume.
Technically, there is more breadth to the market. The one worry is that the rise in the market has been on low volume. But that is probably because there are still a lot of bears out there.
When the price breaks the neckline, there is often a pullback as the price retests the neckline but on low volume. This represents a second opportunity to enter sell short.
suggests, these types of indicators show the volume of trades behind a particualr price movement which can be extremely beneficial because a price movement backed up by high volume is a much stronger signal than a price movement based on low volume.
After peaking in January COKE then sold off but found support near its 38.2% Fibonacci Retracement Level near $59 (point A) and then preceded to rally over the next few weeks on low volume (point B).
It is based on the idea that there are a greater number of informed traders in the market on low volume days, while on high volume days the market is dominated by a greater number of unsophisticated traders.
One sensible way of tracking sentiment is by noting the volume on uptrends or downtrends. High volume serves as a confirmation of the trend. Price moves based on low volume have much less significance.
Rallies in bear markets die on low volume. (Art Cashin on CNBC)
Volume is validity. If enough people believe in something, it moves. (Art Cashin on CNBC)
Trading isn't a game of luck. It's a game of probability.
Prosperity ends in a crisis.
of the pattern and increases on a breakout from the pattern. For any pattern or trendline penetration, a breakout with increasing volume is more an indication that prices will continue in the direction of the breakout than a breakout on low volume.
 See also: Volume, Low, Stock, Trend, Market
  
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