Data collection has been the Achilles heel of all research endeavors. Proper data can be hard to find, acquiring it is often prohibitively expensive and cleaning everything up is time-consuming.

Volume shows how much a financial asset has been traded over a set period of time. Find out how to use volume data correctly to add an important and useful edge to your trading. Volume trading is when ...

For traders who intend to profit from declining stock prices, short sale volume data can be a useful metric to add to your technical analysis. It not only gives an indication of the amount of shorted ...

Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine, once said Peter Sondergaard, a tech strategist best known for his lea ...

Big data is often differentiated by the four V’s: velocity, veracity, volume and variety. Researchers assign various measures of importance to each of the metrics, sometimes treating them equally, ...

Operational databases continue to expand, with database sizes growing in most organizations. There are several reasons for this growth. The primary reason, of course, is that more and more data is ...

Interpreting volume in the futures market differs from doing so for stocks. Futures contracts have an expiry date, while stocks do not. This means volume fluctuations and patterns can mean something ...