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• Volume as a proxy for time by Robert Pisani

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Volume as a proxy for time There are numerous ways to display the market information contained in Market Structure charts. The standard format consists of three parts (Figure 1): the Market Structure Histogram on the left side of the chart, volume at each price displayed in time sequence in the chart's center, and the total volume for each time period on the bottom of the chart. The market progresses simultaneously through two dimensions: time and volume. Thus, one can measure the market's progress either by counting time or by counting transaction volume. Although the latter measurement is ...

AUTHOR: Robert PisaniDATE: OCT 1988

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• Principles of market activity by Robert Pisani

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Principles of market activity by Robert Pisani Fundamental to the branch of applied economics that I call Market Structure Analysis are three principles which I modestly call ""the Pisani Principles."" These elementary principles, certainly known to merchants--at least intuitively--since commerce began, describe the inherent relationships between price, volume and time, and point the way to the proper interpretation of this kind of market data. The Pisani Principles apply to any free market, for they are perfectly general and express the motivations of market participants in a way that is, in ...

AUTHOR: Robert PisaniDATE: MAY 1988