Preceding the October 29, 1929, there was an unprecedented amount of stocks trading hands (i.e. 16 million in one day). Does that amount indicate the fear of the traders, and a coming crash? Can we tell a crash coming from the point dropping too? or is the stock market not a teller of these things?
ALSO – where (online) can I find the daily amount of stocks trading hands?
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look at nyse.com
Most holdings are institutional now, not as in 1929.
No, your premise is wrong. Other factors such as futures expirations, short calls, end of quarters, etc., also affect market sales volumes.
You can find the daily trading volumes for all of the exchanges at Yahoo! Finance.
Increases in volume happen all the time, and just because they may also occur before a crash (and especially DURING a crash), these increases do not indicate a looming crash. If you look over time, volume surges lead to any kind of market, bullish, bearish or neutral.