Great info and even a better summary! Thank you. It’s interesting to say the least.

I’m hung up (confused) as to why we would divide total volume by half to get # of buys/sells....

Let’s say Joe sold 100 shares today and it was the only transaction for the day. We know the total volume (1 day) would be marked as 100. We also know it takes a buyer and a seller to make that tranaction happen so 100 shares were sold and 100 shares were bought so why we divide the total volume by 1/2 to get the number shares sold?

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I show Volume total currently for May 2018 based on the above = 3,102,948 .. divided by 2 = 1551,474 ..

1,551,474 (May currently) + 2,236,718 for April 2018 = 3,788,192 *sells*