CAUTION
This thread will be disruptive, it won't hold any punches but it will get to the core of all price movement without a lagging approach. In fact everything that you'll read in my posts are the precursors to price action. Price Action happens only AFTER Volume has shifted directions or determined that VOLUME is not changing and the imbalance will continue.
Changes in direction can ONLY happen WHEN there is a validated SHIFT in SUPPLY/DEMAND - Which is VOLUME.
Order Flow is the NET of movement - tracking it's constant pressure and knowing where they are increasing or decreasing their imbalances - of yes, Volume.
All of these, Volume, Supply and Demand, Order Flow - it's all the same, if you think you know one of them you should know all of them. If you preach you know one and don't know the other you're in a failed state of belief, typical to the retail sector of trading.
If you bite your pride and grasp the concept that there's something better, you're in good hands. You'll find that through volume everything else you've ever used or integrated into your trading becomes a great insulation to the walls of your waste can.
As I said at the start, this thread will be disruptive. I'm not trying to insult people or their 'work' but if their work is expending countless hours on what doesn't provide productive reasoning then it's merely reinforcing bad habits and the transparency that you desire is a long way away.
Our Mission at ClearStreamFX is to provide the transparency and experience of institutional trading to the retail sector.
So if you're ready we can begin. If you have interest in the bigger picture of Education there's a thread for that as well (https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?p=12677111#post12677111). If you're looking for responses on Trader Funding there's a thread to that as well (https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?p=12674974#post12674974). FF provides a good solution for traders to educate one another and we'll this thread to show YOU how you can walk circles around the market.
The charts are wrong but the world accepts what it doesn't know.