Volume Weighted Average Price Definition

Volume Weighted Average Price

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VWAP. A measure of the price at which the majority of a given day's trading in a given security took place. Calculated by taking the weighted average of the prices of each trade. The method is used by institutional traders, who often break a given trade into multiple transactions.

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