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So we think the last few trading days on stock markets were a bloodbath? Just be thankful the market mayhem did not happen in October, says Queens University Finance professor Sean Cleary, when more people would have been at work and actively trading. “If all this negative news was coming out in October, it would have been worse,” he figures. Despite the summer vacation season, trading volumes of on the Toronto Stock Exchange in August have been fairly consistent with other months of this year. And volumes were nearly twice as high on days when the market turn bled or gained more than 200 points this year, according to TSX figures. Friday and Monday were no different, with about 350 million stocks traded on the TSX both days. “I am surprised to see this of activity during the summer,” says Cleary. “The mood is generally very bearish. It’s unusual to see this much trading volume in the summer, but a lot of big things are happening. “It’s partly a sign of the times (with investors using smartphones and computers ) and partly a sign of how nervous people have been about the global economy over the last few months.”