S&P 500 is showing signs of institutional buying: Buy Imbalance reaches +$855.2 million
Following the Big Money in S&P 500 Stocks
So far in trading today, the S&P 500 ETF is up 0.8%. SPY stock last traded at $596.54. Large volume bursts in S&P 500 stocks reached 60.6 million shares worth a total of $9.0 billion in transactions. There was notable buy pressure in the Technology and Financial sectors. Overall, buy volume pressure exceeded sell volume pressure by a 1.2 to 1 ratio. There were 169 stocks that had more buy pressure on balance, and 129 stocks that had more sell pressure from large institutions. As a whole, there was a net positive +$855.2 million in dollar volume trades. A greater amount of the trading volume occurred on lit exchanges, at 59.4%, compared with 40.6% being transacted in the dark pool. To learn more about large volume trades, check out our help section.
Daily Chart: Large Volume Bursts Over Time
As you can see from the chart below, the most recent cumulative buy imbalance is +$855.2 million, however, the peak buy imbalance for the day occurred at 11:45 AM, when the net buy dollar volume was +$1.1 billion. The largest spike in imbalance came between 9:45 AM and 10:00 AM when the buy pressure outweighed the sell pressure by a 5.3 to 1 ratio.
Flow by Sector
Technology experienced the highest amount of dollar volume bursts of all the SPDR sectors, with buy dollar volume exceeding sell dollar volume by $1.1 billion. 26 of the Technology stocks had positive dollar balance, versus 26 that were net negative.
Individual Stocks
NVDA stock had the single biggest volume burst activity of all the S&P 500 stocks. Buy volume bursts exceeded sell volume by 6.1 million shares. As of this afternoon, the average purchase price on buy volume was $150.67. The stock price increased $6.93, indicating strength following the trade.
