Volume profile

Points of control, value areas, market-profile shapes.

tested here

survived the screen

our lab studies

The idea

Points of control and value areas from volume-at-price act as magnets and walls.

Why it feels right

High-volume prices are where trading happened; it feels natural that they matter again.

What the data said

Market-profile methods closed in our lab: the point of control is a described past, and the level that did as well when moved is not a level.

The laws that apply

A zone that works when drawn in the wrong place is not a zone.
Every level, box, gap and block is tested against the same shape shifted by a random amount. If the wrong one performs like the right one, the picture was hindsight. ICT zones, order blocks, fair-value gaps, premium/discount ranges and volume-profile levels all failed this test.

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