Trading Volume vs. Float

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So here is an example:
– Company: TransCode Therapeutics Inc.
– Stock: RNAZ
– Float: 1.58M
– Shares outstanding: 2.03M
– % Held by Insiders: 29.52 %

Yesterdays Volume was 95,516,663 so about 60 times the Float.
(All data from Yahoo Finance)

How is this possible and why is this possible?
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Anonymous 0 Comments

Some portion of the 1.58 million shares goes through many hands that day. Imagine a chain that gets a single link added to the end. Even after 100 links are added it’s still a single chain. Each chain is a share, and each link is a new trade for that share. Ultra high volumes mean the chains are very long. It takes very little time to trade stocks (adding a link to the chain) so it’s possible on very volatile days to have shares go from Alice to Bob to Charlie and David in fractions of a second.

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