Users: SBB: CHART OF THE DAY: This Chart Will Silence Everyone Who Has Been Talking Crap About Low Trading Volumes - Business Insider

Trading volume in the stock market has been dismal for years in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. And it's been viewed as a huge negative by the bull-market naysayers as most don't prefer trading in thin, illiquid markets unless that's a specific component of the trading strategy.

However, Bespoke Investment Group put together an interesting chart showing that since 2009, in the new paradigm, high-volume trading days have been overwhelmingly negative for stock market performance:

Basically, you would have made 108 percent if you bought and held the S&P 500 index since the bottom in March 2009, but if you bought stocks on only the days that volume was above average, you would be down more than 30 percent.

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