Volume, Volatility and Momentum in Financial Markets

In this paper we will discuss the relationship among volume, volatility and return momentum in global financial markets. It turns out that when the volatility is large i.e. the difference between the daily high price and the daily low price is large then the trading volume is also large. We also found that a momentum strategy on volume perform on par with a momentum return investment strategy. A significant amount of positive serial correlation was also found in the volatility and volume