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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joss who wrote (35314)	12/16/1998 12:12:00 AM
From: Vitas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Steve, >>> I have still found no source for the exact rules for declaring a TICK...ie. if a block is for sale and must be filled with a bunch of smaller orders, then, does the sale count as one or many with regard to the tick? <<< Size of the trade does not matter, because volume doesn't matter in the calculation: if a trade, no matter what size, trades at a PRICE that is higher than the previous trade for that stock, it is an uptick, and if it trades at a lower price it is a downtick. Price is the key, not volume. If a block is for sale and it is filled with smaller orders, each smaller trade gets reported separately. Volume plays a big part in the trin/Arms index. Vitas