Total number of shares/contracts traded per bar. The raw measure of participation behind every price move.
(Raw exchange data — no calculation)
Confirmation (breakouts on high volume are real), divergence (price makes new high on lower volume = weak), climactic exhaustion (spike volume at extremes).
Indian intraday volume tapers around lunch and returns near close — misinterpreting time-of-day patterns as signals is common.
Nifty 50 daily bars with Volume pre-loaded:
6 strategies use Volume: