Understanding Volume Profile: The Market's Hidden Roadmap

Most traders use arbitrary support and resistance lines. Volume Profile shows you where real money actually changed hands - giving you the market's true DNA for precise entries and exits.

The Core Concepts:

Point of Control (POC): The Market's Gravity
This is where the most volume traded - the price level institutions and smart money consider "fair value."

How I use it: POC acts like a magnet. When $BTC moves away from its POC, it often gravitates back. During the summer consolidation, the POC at $65K kept pulling price back until the final breakout.

Context matters: Above POC = potential support. Below POC = potential resistance.

HVN vs LVN Strategy:

High Value Nodes (HVN): The Magnets
These are price levels where significant trading occurred. Think of them as institutional memory zones where big players have strong opinions.

Low Value Nodes (LVN): The Highways
Areas where little trading happened - price moves through these zones fast with minimal resistance.

Trading application: I avoid entries in LVN zones (get whipsawed) and focus on HVN levels for precise positioning.

Market Context Changes Everything:

Range-bound markets: HVNs act as resistance, LVNs as support
Trending markets: Breaking above previous HVN signals strength and potential price discovery

Real example: When $ETH broke above its major HVN at $2,800 with volume, that confirmed the move to $3,200+ wasn't just noise.

Volume Profile isn't just pretty colors on a chart - it's institutional footprints showing you where the real battle lines are drawn.

Which concept clicks most for your current trading?

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