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It's like, I don't really, like, I don't necessarily rely on that too much, but I use that, you know, as one of my checklists, you know, same thing with SSR, same thing with Flow, Market Cap. It's more like, you know, on kind of my checklist, what I do every day, so that I can understand the bigger picture of it. So how can you use volume? I mean, so what is really the volume and why is it, you know, or like, you know, if it's important at all to your trading? I mean, I mean, volume is really critical, right? I mean, the liquidity of the stock, like you don't wanna be trading something that, you know, has no volume at all and, you know, the reason of it is because, I mean, you know, you wanna get in and get out of the trade easily, right? You don't wanna be, you know, stuck into some position and then you can get out. I mean, it's just like volume, supply and demand. The liquidity of the stocks is when you can get, you know, easily in and easily out. You know, with Hertz, HTZ, that was pretty liquid throughout the day and, yeah, as you can see here, the volume, it's just insane. This is more like an abnormal volume kind of stock to me and, I mean, for this, I mean, for the big traders, they wanna get in like, you know, million shares, you know, in and out easily, right? But compared to something, I don't know, by like the low hanging fruit or, yeah, like staff, low hanging fruit here, I mean, you can even tell that from the chart that it's not really liquid, right? Volumes kind of dry down, dries down here, you know, after the first day or the hard check is huge, you know, spike here in the volume and then the second day just dies off. And if you wanted to get in here, you know, one million shares, two million shares, you know, you won't be able to get in and get out easily. Like, I don't think even like, you know, with 50 or like 100,000 shares, right? So volume is really crucial part in our trading when it comes to liquidity. What are the things that I'm looking at if, when, when, when it comes to volume, right? The first thing I want to look at is, I wanna see how kind of it performs in the pre-market, okay? Usually I can tell if the stock is hard check or not, like, you know, if it's on day one, the volume is pretty good in the pre-market. I know that after the open, likely it's gonna be, you know, much more volume, right, on it, right? And one of the thing, you know, that I've been kind of not like tracking, but one of the thing I try to kind of pay close attention to is let's say the pre-market volume, let's say if it's, you know, 10 million traded in the pre-market, right? And I think you guys have heard about this a lot, like the forecast of, you know, the particular stocks. If it's, you know, if the pre-market volume traded for like 10 million, you can, you know, multiply it by 10 times, you know, 100 million, that's usually the average, or it's like, you know, the forecast for the stock, right? 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And one of the things that I noticed is that if the pre-market volume's kind of traded 10 million and if it's predicted it's gonna be 100 million by the end of the day, right? But in the first like 30 minutes or like an hour, it already has reached that, you know, number already. So let's say, you know, opens here 10 million and by 1030, it was like sitting at, you know, 100 million already. So that means, you know, that something is telling me that the stock is really, you know, hot and demand is really high. And like the abnormal kind of volume, right? It's like the stock is really crowded. And one of the thing here that I kind of play on, you know, pay a close attention to is when I see those kind of stocks that are really over, like, you know, crowded like that, 100 million by the end of the day, but already reached like in the first hour, right? So that's something that's telling me that stock is really crowded. Likely it's not gonna fade all day, okay? Likely it's gonna, you know, squeeze because, you know, the demand is so high, right? I mean, the people shorting people buying it, I mean, and the chances are a stock is it's gonna do like unimaginable kind of things. Instead of if it was like acting like, you know, it was like forecast, you know, to do it, which is 10 million here. And then, you know, some maybe big volume here, 20 million and then, you know, it's just slowly faded, you know, all day. So by the end of the day, it should reach like that 100 million, right? And if it's, you know, by, usually what I see is by the 1030, if stock like maybe under 50%, it's like 50 million by the end, by, you know, by 1030, likely it's gonna, you know, end up fading all day. But it's not something that, you know, that it's gonna work 100%, right? But it just gives you an idea and how to look at the bigger picture, okay? For me, if stock is really crowded, has abnormal volume, a lot of demand on it, you know, it should reach that 100 million, you know, easily by, you know, first hour. And if it, you know, kinda did that, then I have to kind of thinking about it, like, you know, stock is really crowded, likely chances are it's gonna squeeze or chances are it's gonna be choppy, right? And I don't wanna be involved on that. And also, you know, I try to kind of, you know, maybe move more towards like now in bell kind of, you know, style, instead of like, I would probably hold the piece if it doesn't get to that forecast, I would probably, you know, short here hold the piece, maybe for the home run, right? So it's just like, you know, some sort of information, you know, to give you like the extra information for you to, you know, having in your book, that's all. And the second part here regarding the volume is Alex mentioned a lot about it during the markets open and one of the key things here that I want to kind of look at at, you know, intraday or like at the real time kind of move is that I wanna see the stock has a levelated kind of volume up, right? The volume is elevated here. As you can see, and then stuff move after that. Like the stuff move, like the stuff move on elevated volume. This is, you know, what's Alex been, you know, talking about it daily, basically. And usually those stuff you can see here, that's, this is like really powerful stuff. This is, this is pretty much like the death candle we've been talking about in our videos. And if you, you know, watch those, and this is, you know, clearly the sign for you, like the momentum has changed, right? But this is like growing higher and higher and then huge stuff. This is, you can tell like biggest candle from 7 a.m. up to here at 9.30. 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