Volume Profile Trading Ideas – 12th August 2024

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Video Transcript:

Hello everyone, it’s Dale here with a new weekly trading ideas video. Let’s first start with a trading idea on the EUR/USD. By the way, what you see before you is NinjaTrader, a platform with my custom-made Volume Profile and VWAP indicators. This is a 30-minute chart of the EUR/USD, and I would like to talk about this support level at 1.088. This is also a support level that I published earlier for members of our Trading Group, and today I decided to show you this support and explain why I believe it’s a strong level.

Let’s first talk about the Volume Profile. If you look in this zone where that support was formed, there is a strong rejection of lower prices. This means aggressive sellers were pushing the price downward, and then aggressive buyers started to jump in, pushing the price aggressively upward. Now, if you use a Volume Profile over this area, there is a significant volume bump. It’s not as strong as this one, for example, but it is at the place where the price actually turned. So, even though the volumes are not as heavy as in here, it is a very important signal that buyers who rejected the lower prices and turned this selling into buying were active here. This is the beginning of that volume cluster, so that’s where I have the level. If the price comes here, it’s likely that the buyers will become active again and push the price upward from there. This is the Volume Profile rejection setup.

In this area, for example, there was a strong rejection as well. If you use the Volume Profile over that area, you can see a heavy volume bump here. This was the reaction to it. There might also be a reaction to this one, but I think that if the price comes close, it will want to drop a little further downward to test those volumes. That’s why I have this volume cluster instead of this one, but I wouldn’t be too surprised if the price reacted to this one as well before continuing to test the second one.

Now, let me show you something on the Order Flow because it’s very visible there. This is the Order Flow software. Let’s focus on this chart—this is a 30-minute chart of the Euro Futures, but the correlation between futures and spot is almost 100%, so we can look at futures as well since it has better data for Order Flow. Here is the heavy volume zone—this is the rejection—and these are the heavy volumes. See how the algorithms started to become active here as the price was dropping? They started to buy here and reversed the price upward. You can tell very easily just by looking at the chart and seeing that this is a darker shade of gray, which indicates huge volumes.

Now, one more thing I wanted to show you is on this chart—this is a 30-minute chart as well, but it’s a filtered chart, which means it shows filtered trades, only the biggest orders. Here, you can see huge orders—104 contracts in just one trade—and from there, the price reversed and went upward. So, what we need to do now is just wait for the pullback to that level and take it from there. If you have Order Flow, you can also wait for confirmation around the level, using the Order Flow to better time your trade entry and exits.

Alright, so that’s the plan for the long on EUR/USD. Now, let’s move on to the next trading idea, which will be on the AUD/USD. This is a 30-minute chart of the AUD/USD. The first thing I wanted to show you is the Volume Profile—the volume distribution for the previous week. This is how the volumes were distributed over the entire previous week, and here is the weekly point of control—the heaviest volumes throughout that whole week were traded here. As you can see, I have a level here for a long at 0.6555. This long is based on volumes formed in this volume cluster within this uptrend. The Volume Profile indicates that buyers were pushing the price upward and adding to their long positions here, so they should defend this level. That’s why the price should react there.

At the same time, we have the weekly point of control here, which definitely adds strength to that level because the weekly point of control by itself is a very strong level to trade from. One thing I’m a little concerned about is this weak low, and the risk that the price could just test the liquidity below all those candles below this weak low. Normally, I would be very careful about a weak low like this, but since this is the weekly point of control, I decided that it’s worth the risk, and I’m going to take that trade. In my opinion, the chance of a successful reaction is greater than the chance of the price testing that weak low, mostly because of the weekly point of control.

Alright, so that’s the plan for AUD/USD. Now let’s move on to the next one—the USD/CHF. Here we have another 30-minute chart with a heavy volume zone followed by very strong and aggressive buying activity. The level is at the beginning of that heavy volume zone as well as the beginning of that strong buying activity. It is at 0.8577, and this is basically the volume accumulation setup. Buyers were accumulating their long positions here and then pushed the price aggressively upward. When the price reaches this level, chances are that buyers will react here and defend this place, which is clearly important to them because they placed many long positions here, and they’ll push the price upward from there again.

That’s the plan for USD/CHF. If you’re interested in learning more about Volume Profile trading, head over to my website, Trader-Dale.com. If you click the button that says “Trading Course and Tools” it will take you to the page where you can browse my trading education and trading tools. This is the Volume Profile pack, which will teach you everything about Volume Profile trading. Below that is the Order Flow pack, which will teach you everything about day trading with Order Flow. Below that is the VWAP pack, which focuses on trading with VWAP and Anchored VWAP. If you’re interested in getting all three together in a discounted bundle, you can get it at the bottom of the page.

There are videos you can watch, which will show you everything included in all those packs. Now, before I wrap up the video, I’d like to announce the winner of the contest we had last time. The prize of the contest was my custom-made Volume Profile and VWAP indicators for the TradingView platform. Right now, on your screen, you see the name of the contest winner. Congratulations to the winner! I’ll do another contest for the next week. To participate, just leave a comment below this video, which I’ll publish on YouTube, and next week I’ll randomly pick one person to win this set of custom-made indicators.

That’s all for now. Thanks for watching the video, and I look forward to seeing you next time. Until then, happy trading!

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