This might be a dumb question but, when looking at the volume chart on ETrade what do the black bars representing volume mean? The green is buy and red is sell correct? I am just confused as to what black is supposed to represent.

Thanks!

i will look in the morning but the green is trade at the ask and red trade at the bid. thier is no way of knowing if a buy or sell but ussually on ask is buy and red is a sell but not always the case for we have all bought on the bid and sold on the ask before. the black i think falls between the bid and the ask but i will have to check to make sure. at work now so can't bring up power etrade

Catfish thank you for your reply it was very helpful! I have read some posts here where different people talk about seeing different buys and sells. How are they doing this?

Thanks