🧭 Market Profile — Find Value Before Price Moves 📍🔎
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What Is Market Profile?
Market Profile organizes price and time into a bell curve shape to show where the market spent the most time — aka value areas 🎯
It’s less about candlesticks…
…and more about who’s in control at each level 🧠
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📊 Key Concepts:
✅ Point of Control (POC) → Price level with highest traded volume
✅ Value Area (VA) → Zone where 70% of volume occurred
✅ Low Volume Nodes (LVN) → Areas price rejected quickly
✅ High Volume Nodes (HVN) → Strong interest zones, often S/R
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🧠 Why Market Profile Matters
🔸 Tells you where buyers/sellers agree = value 📍
🔸 Reveals imbalances that fuel future moves 🔥
🔸 Shows where price is likely to pause, reject, or consolidate
You’re not trading price — you’re trading value perception 🤝
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📘 Market Profile Strategy:
1. Identify the Value Area from previous session
2. Look for price to open outside VA → expect move back inside (mean reversion)
3. Price accepting above VA → bullish continuation
4. Price rejecting VA → reversal signal
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💡 Pro Tips:
1. POC Shift Strategy
If the POC shifts upward session after session → strong accumulation 💪
Shifting lower = possible distribution
2. Look for LVN Rejections
Price touches a low-volume node and rejects?
→ Potential bounce or scalp opportunity
3. Pair With Liquidity Maps
If liquidity pools align with Value Area edges → high-probability reaction zone 🧲
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🎯 Example Setup:
• Identify previous day’s VA High & Low
• Wait for price to deviate and reject VAH/VAL
• Look for re-entry inside VA
• Target POC or opposite edge of VA
• Stop-loss just beyond deviation wick
Market Profile = Trading where value is accepted or denied 📉📈
