I sometimes read that trading volume is lower during summer months because many institutional investors being on vacation. Lower volume means certain market moves can give false impressions as for example on bad economic news markets could still jump higher suddenly if some pension fund makes a big buy already planned in advance however unrelated to economic events that normally would drive the market.
Now my question.. is it really true trading volume of the S&P500 is lower right now in July so during summer and where can you clearly see those daily volumes and the difference with normal periods on a chart? If I look on Yahoo Finance on the chart for VOO or SPY since beginning of the year at the bottom you can see bars showing daily volume, however when i hover over thoses bars with my mouse I don't really see that current volumes in July are lower than other months. Anybody can show where this can be seen much clearer unless the Yahoo Finance chart also shows this and i'm just misreading it. Thanks for all the help.
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