Investors have plenty of tools in their toolkit to help analyze price charts, including the volume-weighted average price (VWAP). But what is VWAP and how is it used? VWAP is a technical analysis ...

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Larry Harris, formerly chief economist at the Securities and Exchange Commission, is reviewing the practice of guaranteed VWAP. Harris, a University of Southern California professor, is authoring a ...

Volume-weighted average price, or VWAP, is the ratio of total volume traded divided by the total volume traded for a chosen time frame. VWAP is an important indicator for intraday trading, as it ...

Asia equity auction volumes are growing. The data shows that closing auction volume has grown from approximately 4% in 2009 to almost 13% in 2014 (Figure 1). In fact, in Q1 2015, both the opening and ...

According to a survey of buy side attendees at Asia Trader Forum 2016, 67% of respondents evaluate their execution performance by using benchmarks which are provided by either the portfolio managers ...