Lets say there is a stock which trades average volume of 1 million shares per day. Refer to the equation below for clarification. Sales volume can be further analyzed by considering the percentage of sales volume.
Enter 1100 total in the first box and enter 100 in the second box.
Divide the number to be expressed as a percent by the total. For example 26 26100 26 You can also simply move the decimal to the left two places. This gives you the percent of total sales represented in each category. In other words you can translate any percentage into a decimal by dividing by 100.