Navigating Market Depths: Unveiling Sharks & Whales Volume Order Analytics (2024)

FAQs

What are whales sharks in the stock market? ›

The Stock Market Zoo: Animal Metaphors In Trading And Investing. Tier list for the ten types of investors: Whales: Large investors who move the market through size. Sharks: Opportunists who make money quickly and efficiently.

What is volume in the stock market? Volume is an indicator that means the total number of shares that have been bought or sold in a specific period of time or during the trading day. It will also involve the buying and selling of every share during the specific time period.

The whale or group of whales open vast buy orders at prices above the market, thus setting up a buy wall. These colossal buy orders elevate the price at which orders are executed and trick other traders into increasing their buying prices, too.

When a whale enters a position, the price tends to follow a similar pattern. Demand for the stock will rise rapidly as positions are being bought. Price will skyrocket and other investors will notice, jumping on board.

Analyzing the volume indicator involves understanding the patterns created by the trading volume and their relationship with price action. High trading volumes often indicate increased market interest and liquidity, whereas low volumes suggest a lack of interest or limited market activity.

To understand volume analysis, it is important to have indicators that can help the investors to measure the volume. Most of the technical analysts use two of the important volume indicators, the Positive Volume Index (PVI) and the Negative Volume Index (NVI).

Shark Investing is an approach to the stock market designed to capitalize on the many unique attributes and advantages that the smaller investor possesses. Shark Investors use their small size, quickness, and aggressiveness to outmaneuver and outrun the Whales of Wall Street.

Whale sharks also have economic importance in the fishing industry. In some countries, such as Taiwan and the Philippines, they are caught for their meat, fins, and oil. However, the economic value of live whale sharks in the tourism industry is far greater than their value in the fishing industry.

Whale shark (Rhincodon typus)

In regions where whale sharks are known to aggregate, ecotourism has proven to be an extremely lucrative alternative to fishing. It has been estimated that whale shark tourism, mainly through recreational diving, is worth about US$47.5 million worldwide each year.

What do whale sharks classify as? ›

It is the sole member of the genus Rhincodon and the only extant member of the family Rhincodontidae, which belongs to the subclass Elasmobranchii in the class Chondrichthyes. Before 1984 it was classified as Rhiniodon into Rhinodontidae. Whale sharks inhabit the open waters of all tropical oceans.