Volume Profile Basics
Learn to read a Volume Profile on a real ES futures chart: the Point of Control, the 70% Value Area, and the fat and thin areas that show where price agreed and where it moved fast.
- The difference between volume over time and volume at price
- How the 70% Value Area is calculated, and why platforms differ
- How traders use yesterday's POC, VAH and VAL as context, including when price ignores them
- The five profile shapes and what each says about the session