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Hypothetical simulated results with the limitations of CFD data feeds. Education, not investment advice. Every report discloses its assumptions and controls.

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VWAP

Entries at, across or back to the volume-weighted average price.

tested here

4

survived the screen

0

our lab studies

5

The idea

The volume-weighted average price is where the big players' fills sit; price returns to it, or its side tells you the trend.

Why it feels right

VWAP is a real institutional benchmark, so it sounds like an institutional signal. It is an average, and price crosses averages constantly.

What the data said

Five studies, every form: bands, pullbacks, anchored VWAP, VWAP as a gate. The entries beat random entries slightly and lose after costs. A line that price crosses many times a day cannot carry a per-trade edge larger than the spread.

The laws that apply

  • Costs decide.

    The toll (spread, commission, slippage, financing) is the biggest lever we have ever measured: lowering it from 2 to 0.55 basis points changed a strategy's result by more than any rule change. An edge that only exists below real costs is not an edge, and most intraday videos sit in that gap: positive gross, negative net.

  • 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.

Every vwap video on file

Each row is a full autopsy: the exact rules, every trade, every control. Click one.

  • YouTubeLOSES MONEYBTCUSDTMoving Average And VWAP Trend Strategies Backtest In PythonCodeTrading29% win−$7.69 per trade*5,152 trades
  • YouTubeLOSES MONEYEURUSDHighly Profitable Intraday Strategy With The ＂VWAP＂, ＂MACD＂ And The ＂Supertrend＂ ｜ High Win Rate #00Kelsy Waddup 29% win−$1.49 per trade*5,355 trades
  • YouTubeLOSES MONEYSPXEx-Hedge Fund Manager Reveals His $150M Scalping Strategy (Live On Chart)IQCapital75%→46%−$2.76 per trade*12,386 trades
  • YouTubeLOSES MONEYNQMarket Maker Reveals His “Golden Ticket” VWAP Strategy (93.6% Chance of Funding) - Matteo ContiIQCapital64%→58%−$1.06 per trade*5,667 trades
resultvideomarketwinning trades: claimed → real$ per trade*tradesaccount
YouTubeLOSES MONEYMoving Average And VWAP Trend Strategies Backtest In PythonCodeTradingBTCUSDTnone→29%−$7.695,152
YouTubeLOSES MONEYHighly Profitable Intraday Strategy With The ＂VWAP＂, ＂MACD＂ And The ＂Supertrend＂ ｜ High Win Rate #00Kelsy Waddup EURUSDnone→29%−$1.495,355
YouTubeLOSES MONEYEx-Hedge Fund Manager Reveals His $150M Scalping Strategy (Live On Chart)IQCapitalSPX75%→46%−$2.7612,386
YouTubeLOSES MONEYMarket Maker Reveals His “Golden Ticket” VWAP Strategy (93.6% Chance of Funding) - Matteo ContiIQCapitalNQ64%→58%−$1.065,667

* dollars made or lost per trade on a $10,000 position, after trading costs. Green = a profit that passed our checks. Black = a profit we could not tell from luck. Grey = too few trades to trust.

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