Hi I was just looking at the volume that was traded today with the increase in volume this afternoon.
From 1;47pm when the 200 000 share trade went through at 22 cents a total of 1,291,570 up to 1 59pm.
2-3pm volume of 2,901,536 shares traded.
3-4pm volume of 1,260,842 shares traded
4-4:10pm volume of 207000 shares traded.
Total of shares traded between 1;47 and 4:10pm from 22-25.5 cents was 5,660,948 shares. Total amount of shares traded today was 9,129,860.
3,468,912 was traded before 1:47pm.
161% increase in volume traded from 1:47-4:10pm compared to the amount of shares traded from 10:05am to 1:47pm. 3 hours and 42 minutes in morning trading compared to 2 hours 23 minutes in the afternoon.
5,660,948/143 minutes = 39587 shares per minute traded.
3,468,912/222 minutes = 15625 shares per minute traded.
That’s more than a 200% increase in number of shares traded per minute between this morning and this afternoon.
The numbers above don’t mean anything just what I did to see the difference in trading volume between the morning period where the price dropped to 21.5 cents and the afternoon period where it went from 22 cents at the start with a 200 000 share large buy at 1:47pm to closing and finishing at 25 with a high of 25.5 cents.
A large amount of volume went through in the afternoon starting from 1 47pm with no reason for the sudden buying but to almost make a 200% increase in buying over 2 hours compared to the trading volume the previous 3 and half hours we could guess and maybe hope that some positive news is due soon from the upper levels. I know that buying at 25 cents compared to a few months ago is very cheap but if there isn’t positive news we could see a drop in price which shouldn’t really happen considering its cheaper now then it was before drilling.
Today’s volume is almost as much as the volume on the 2 days on the 9-10 July when the bad results were released and sent the share price down to the 20’s. Today’s volume is even twice as much as the volume traded on the 16th July when news of upper barker creek flowing at 0.3mmcf was released to have a total of 0.5mmcf.
Why was there so much interest today especially this afternoon since the buyers were happy to pay 23-24-25 cents in large amounts to get the shares they wanted when if bought at 11am they could have had them at 21.5 cents. The buying this afternoon doesn’t make sense for a day with no news released. Either people think current price is very cheap and wanted in. Or maybe a leak of positive news since there was a fair bit of buying interest, or could be just that lots of people are thinking there must be some good news about to come out and wanted to get in just in case news is released tomorrow.
Looking at today’s intraday chart using 4 tick data shows that all day today the demand for shares was always above 1 which meant buyers at all times wanted more then sellers wanted to sell. That is normally a positive, at different times during the day the demand had increased to 2 times more buyers then sellers and even reached above 2.5 at a couple of times during the day.
The blue line was above the red line a few times for short periods during the morning leading up to 1:40pm, but during those times the red line wasn’t that far from the blue line so the parcels of shares weren’t that big per buyer but still more than the sellers each time.
From 1:04pm the blue line started to increase on both the q5 and q8 indicators with the q5 indicator at 1.48 when it started to increase at 1:44pm the blue line was at 1.9489 so about a 0.5 increase in demand over the 40 minutes, it was at 1;44pm where the blue line crossed the red line and if you look at the demand during that time and the trades going through that was about the same time as the 200 000 share trade went through at 22 cents which started the price move and large increase in buying.
Looking at the chart from 1;44pm you will notice that the blue line from that time never dropped below the red line which means smart buying or buyers wanting more shares then sellers wanted to sell during that time. Even when the blue line did drop the red line also dropped so number of buyers were a lot less which is good. The less buyers around but the higher the demand blue line is means more shares per buyer wanting to be bought.
I find these charts helpful, and thought to share, this is today's intraday chart with q5 and q8 showing the demand for the top 5 and 8 price levels and the n5 and n8 is the number of buyers to sellers ratio.
this may not be of interest to others but thought it was worth sharing.