Top 3 VOLUME PROFILE Strategies | 📈 Real Results Included

Hey everyone, it’s Dale here. Today I’m going to show you three plus one battle-tested Volume Profile strategies that I’ve been trading for around 10 years. Today I’m going to show you how you can trade them as well. In this video, I’m going to focus on trade entries. I won’t cover stop-loss placement, take-profit placement, or position management. I’m only going to cover how to enter trades based on these strategies.

All right. What you see before you is how the strategies perform. This is their combined equity since 2023 up until now. Their combined win rate is 66%. I’m trading all these strategies on forex major pairs. That means I’m trading the EUR/USD, AUD/USD, CAD/USD, GBP/USD, USD/CHF, and USD/JPY. I’m also trading them on a couple of indexes: ES and NQ.

I’m getting the best results on EUR/USD. If you look here and I select just EUR/USD, then this equity shows only if I were trading the strategies on EUR/USD. As you can see, the win rate is 71% on EUR/USD. The other instruments perform well too, but EUR/USD has always been the best-performing. For example, this is the performance of GBP/USD, this is AUD/USD, and this is ES. If I go back, this is the overall performance of all three strategies combined. This is their combined win rate with trades at a 1:1 risk-reward ratio.

Now I think it’s time we take a look at the strategies. By the way, one thing I forgot to mention is that all these trades you see here are trades I call in advance in our trading group. You can join us as well. If you go to traderdale.com, which is my website, you can join one of my courses there, and you’ll also get those signals in advance.

All right, let’s get to the strategies. The first strategy I’m going to talk about is called the Volume Accumulation Strategy. I trade these strategies on a 30-minute chart. That means I trade them as intraday trades. You can also use different time frames, but I prefer the 30-minute time frame. I’ve been trading mainly on that time frame for the last 10 to 12 years.

The first step is to look for a rotation followed by a trend. If you look at this picture, here is a rotation and it’s followed by a trend. That’s the first step—you need to see this. The second step is to use a flexible Volume Profile and identify a heavy volume zone in the rotation. Usually, in rotations there are heavy volume zones because big trading institutions like to accumulate their positions inside a rotation. You want to use the flexible profile to look into the rotation and see how volumes were distributed there.

The flexible Volume Profile is a custom-made profile that you can get on my website. Let me show you how it looks. This is NinjaTrader 8, and this is the flexible Volume Profile. You can move it around and look into specific areas, which is very handy, especially if you are trading the setups I’m showing you today. For example, here’s the Volume Accumulation Strategy. There’s a rotation followed by a trend. You wait for a pullback and trade from there. That’s why you want to use the flexible profile—it allows you to look only into specific areas.

I’m not forcing you to use my indicators. I prefer them because I tailored them to my style of trading. But for example, on TradingView you can use the Fixed Range Volume Profile. It’s a bit clunkier, but definitely usable.

Now, once you identify the rotation and heavy volume zone, the third step is to draw a line at the beginning of the heavy volume zone. That line becomes your resistance. Then you wait for the pullback. When the price hits this resistance, that’s where you go short. This is the Volume Accumulation Strategy. It’s rather simple.

The logic behind it is that sellers were accumulating short positions in that rotation. They then pushed the price downwards. When the price returns to the heavy volume zone, those sellers usually step in again to defend their positions and push the price down from there.

This was the short trade scenario. You can also trade the long side—same thing, just reversed. Identify the rotation followed by a trend, use the profile to spot the heavy volume zone, draw your support line, and when the price pulls back, go long from there.

Now let’s look at the second strategy: the Rejection Strategy. First, look for a strong rejection. Rejection means the price goes one way aggressively, then suddenly turns and goes the other way aggressively. For example, the price goes down, then turns back up fast—that’s a rejection of lower prices. Or it goes up, then turns down fast—that’s a rejection of higher prices.

Next, use the Volume Profile to look into the rejection area only. You want to see a significant volume cluster near where the price turned. That’s where aggressive buyers or sellers stepped in. You mark the beginning of that volume cluster with a line. That line becomes your support or resistance. Then you wait for the pullback and enter.

For example, after a rejection of lower prices, identify the volume cluster, mark it, and when the price pulls back to that support, you go long. If it was a rejection of higher prices, you mark the cluster, wait for the pullback, and go short.

Now let’s move to the third strategy: the Trend Strategy. This one is my favorite. First, identify a strong trend. Then use the Volume Profile to spot significant clusters within that trend. These clusters show where buyers or sellers added positions during the move. Mark the beginning of the cluster, wait for the pullback, and enter in the direction of the trend.

My favorite variation is when the volume cluster aligns with a price action setup—like when a former resistance turns into support, or vice versa. Those combos give the strongest signals.

Finally, the bonus strategy: the Reversal. This is what you do when a level fails. If the price blows straight through your level with no reaction, wait for the pullback from the other side. Very often, the price will come back to test the exact same level, but now it acts as support/resistance in the opposite direction. Enter from there.

This works best when the price cuts through the level with no or very little reaction. It doesn’t mean your level was wrong. It just means sentiment shifted, and you need to adapt and join the new dominant side.

To recap: we covered three main Volume Profile strategies—the Volume Accumulation, the Rejection, and the Trend Strategy. If they fail, you can use the Reversal Strategy. I’ve been trading these setups for around 10 years with consistent results.

I hope you found this helpful and will try them out. If you want to join me, trade live, get my indicators, and access full Volume Profile education, visit trader-dale.com. Until next time, happy trading.