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  • #481
  • Oct 16, 2025 11:22pm Oct 16, 2025 11:22pm
Quoting bluesteele
{quote} Yes I think it is very important to use the "Open Outcry" times as these are considered the RTH/Regular trading hours for whatever asset your trading. It's when Volume generally comes in...It's what professional traders/Institutional traders use. As for CFDs...One can just use the futures data/charts GC for trading xau/usd Heres a short video on using 820am open https://youtube.com/shorts/xWsWKZ8Ye...TLpPVRBDvr2z-6 Yes Globex Open is 6pm NY. Yes I use all of these confluences.. As I was saying with VWAPs from Monthly/Weekly/Daily...
Alright I just changed it on my charts. I seem to favor breakout and retests but I hear those are rare? VWAP setups seem beautiful for me but I seem to have confidence issues unless we're in price discovery. I'm still wrapping my head around it. I prefer retests most of the time. Any tips?
  • #482
  • Oct 16, 2025 11:30pm Oct 16, 2025 11:30pm
Quoting RickM
{quote} Hi Blanctrader I always have a CUM Delta indicator set up on a seperate chart when trading Gold or Indexes. I need to see a break in Delta supporting price action before I enter a trade. The question you need to answer is A.. Do I take the touch of a level before trading. B.. Do I wait for confirmation that price has actually bounced off that level before trading. I suppose I am asking you how the hell will you actually execute that trade setup. I personally prefer to wait and let Delta confirm my trade decision was correct by using the...
I currently don't trade futures... I've been looking for a chance to get in. I'm trading forex and commodities for now as I haven't seen a moderately cheap futures firm. Does the CUM delta work on forex as well? If so I'll try it out
  • #483
  • Oct 17, 2025 12:37am Oct 17, 2025 12:37am
Quoting RickM
{quote} Hi Blanctrader I always have a CUM Delta indicator set up on a seperate chart when trading Gold or Indexes. I need to see a break in Delta supporting price action before I enter a trade. The question you need to answer is A.. Do I take the touch of a level before trading. B.. Do I wait for confirmation that price has actually bounced off that level before trading. I suppose I am asking you how the hell will you actually execute that trade setup. I personally prefer to wait and let Delta confirm my trade decision was correct by using the...
Thanks Blue for his thread and Rick for your answers. As a beginner , could you suggest any tradingview indicator that can help with reading the cumulative delta? So one can start understanding how to applying it for trading the Nasdaq. Can we apply this method ( cumulative delta reading) also for US100 ( CDF). Tks a lot for all what you guys are doing.
  • #484
  • Oct 17, 2025 7:26am Oct 17, 2025 7:26am
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  • #485
  • Oct 17, 2025 7:33am Oct 17, 2025 7:33am
Ask yourself What is price rotating around ? Behaviour of Price.
Remember the Close/Settlement is typically where the largest volume comes in.
As you see the Prev Days POC is similar to the close.

Simply some observations that may be helpful to help frame out a trade with whatever setup your using.


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  • #486
  • Oct 17, 2025 7:33am Oct 17, 2025 7:33am
Quoting bluesteele
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Hello bluesteele
Best regards from me
I had to upload a chart to accompany your post.
It fits. You're one of the few who described it so well, so I couldn't help myself.
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  • #487
  • Oct 17, 2025 7:47am Oct 17, 2025 7:47am
Quoting kette
{quote} Hello bluesteele Best regards from me I had to upload a chart to accompany your post. It fits. You're one of the few who described it so well, so I couldn't help myself. {image}
Much appreciated and I have seen many of your posts over the years

Feel free to contribute Kette...as I am sure others who use MT4 MT5 would like that.

Have a good day !
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  • #488
  • Oct 17, 2025 12:15pm Oct 17, 2025 12:15pm
Quoting bluesteele
Ask yourself What is price rotating around ? Behaviour of Price. Remember the Close/Settlement is typically where the largest volume comes in. As you see the Prev Days POC is similar to the close. Simply some observations that may be helpful to help frame out a trade with whatever setup your using. {image}
I'm seeing it. I wanna ask a question tho... Was the breakout from the IBL valid? We were above both the weekly and monthly VWAP SD so... price discovery yet the daily VWAP and the VP showed price discovery in the opposing direction and the VWAP from the previous days 8:20 open coincided with the retest. Would you have taken it ?
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  • #489
  • Oct 17, 2025 12:56pm Oct 17, 2025 12:56pm
Quoting Blanctrader
{quote} I'm seeing it. I wanna ask a question tho... Was the breakout from the IBL valid? We were above both the weekly and monthly VWAP SD so... price discovery yet the daily VWAP and the VP showed price discovery in the opposing direction and the VWAP from the previous days 8:20 open coincided with the retest. Would you have taken it ? {image}
Yes that was an A+ setup in my book. Will post up a recap of it later today

Well done
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  • #490
  • Oct 18, 2025 4:05am Oct 18, 2025 4:05am
Quoting vidvad
Another example of the FF-Flex is when someone continually posts to a thread about how their way is better than the approach presented in the thread. Such people are weak and in need of external validation, i.e. they need others to validate their self-worth. The irony, of course, is that such people are unaware of their need for external validation and thus believe themselves superior to others when in fact their behavior is glaring evidence of their weakness to those who know. Well, back to the tools at hand ... the circled areas are all places...
Please if you don't mind which pivot point indi do you use? I tire for drawing it out
  • #491
  • Oct 18, 2025 11:41am Oct 18, 2025 11:41am
Here's a video on Volume Profile really simplified and it is exactly how I use it.
Chris Drysdale nails it... In this video he uses the NQ as an example....

And Man o Man...I took a quick look at the NQ charts and wholly smokes...Incredible
Using the Vol Profile...Composite and VWAP..

A+ setups jumping off the charts at levels that are known and set before the trading session.
Once you see it you cant unsee it.

I will post up some NQ charts in awhile showing what I see...

The value this video gives you and what I will show is priceless and I mean that wholeheartedly.
This can with a little study put your trading on another level..Its only up to you if you can execute.

Watch the video if you want to step up your game to however far you want to go.

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  • #492
  • Edited 7:08pm Oct 18, 2025 6:53pm | Edited 7:08pm
Since this thread is in the Trading Discussion Forum - can I challenge readers to consider adding Sound to their aid their trading decision.

Here we see a normal bounce of VWAP with a bullish move to the upside.

What's different about this move?

A strong Bullish move will be a huge drive of delta to the upside. In this case, it moved 7000 delta in around 45 minutes.
It wasn't large orders sending price higher but thousands of small orders from thousands of traders doing the hard yards.
Now on a chart, you just see a move to the upside with no particular difference to any other move that day.
That's how visually it looked anyway.

However, if you decided to use sound as an extra tool, you would hear "violent machine gunning of orders" in your right ear as the Ask order book was being destroyed with force. Tool I use is PriceSquawk.

Your ears are normally a better judge of direction than your eyesight will ever be
So - thousand's of Buy signals in your right ear drum and high Delta readings = Unlosable trade which I executed.

I also believe that Volume signals need a level to trade from always, so taking this move from VWAP was the level I was looking and took the trade after price moved passed VAL. Trade confirmation of direction was now confirmed.

Thoughts?
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  • #493
  • Oct 18, 2025 7:53pm Oct 18, 2025 7:53pm
Quoting RickM
Since this thread is in the Trading Discussion Forum - can I challenge readers to consider adding Sound to their aid their trading decision. Here we see a normal bounce of VWAP with a bullish move to the upside. What's different about this move? A strong Bullish move will be a huge drive of delta to the upside. In this case, it moved 7000 delta in around 45 minutes. It wasn't large orders sending price higher but thousands of small orders from thousands of traders doing the hard yards. Now on a chart, you just see a move to the upside with no particular...
Thanks Rick...I dont use it but I know its a very valuable tool.... I've sat in on many of Chris Drysdales trading sessions and there is no mistaking when
tickstrick starts clicking the trade is happening... Bringing our sense of hearing in I think for some may literally be a huge game changer.

Just like those traders in the pit ran on auditory senses... They werent watching candlesticks they were "LISTENING" to the orderflow.

I have toyed with the thought of using tickstrick or pricesquawk....just havent got there yet One never knows !

Heres a short 60sec video, that you can hear for yourself, for those wondering what the hell were talking about

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And a more lengthy 10 min video on tickstrike

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  • #494
  • Oct 18, 2025 11:03pm Oct 18, 2025 11:03pm
Quoting bluesteele
{quote} Thanks Rick...I dont use it but I know its a very valuable tool.... I've sat in on many of Chris Drysdales trading sessions and there is no mistaking when tickstrick starts clicking the trade is happening... Bringing our sense of hearing in I think for some may literally be a huge game changer. Just like those traders in the pit ran on auditory senses... They werent watching candlesticks they were "LISTENING" to the orderflow. I have toyed with the thought of using tickstrick or pricesquawk....just havent got there yet One never...

Aha!!! ..

Nope haven’t gone mad, not yet anyway.

I remember talking to Dave years ago about this while watching the USD/JPY pairs gang up on the rest and break off and head for the border.

If I was sitting at the computer I knew the move was on due to the amount of number crunching my dashboards/indicators were making causing the fan speed to go into overdrive followed by a locked up chart and no way to jump on the move….. my home grown Pitbull indicator was the real cause… awesome programming on my part….

10+ years on and countless laptops later and the same moves still happen and the early warning is the curtains being drawn down into the fan sucking in the oxygen….

Hope you’re well Kev, I know you’ve been going through the mill as we all seem to at some time or other.

Andy.
  • #495
  • Oct 19, 2025 12:02pm Oct 19, 2025 12:02pm
Quoting Blanctrader
{quote} I'm seeing it. I wanna ask a question tho... Was the breakout from the IBL valid? YES We were above both the weekly and monthly VWAP SD NO ONLY MONTHLY so... price discovery yet the daily VWAP and the VP showed price discovery in the opposing direction NO and the VWAP from the previous days 8:20 open coincided with the retest. Would you have taken it ? 100% yes {image}
A few things you are perhaps missing,,,

Price is always in search of Value...Fair Value and if fair value is found price stays in balance. If buyers and sellers are
not in equilibrium then price will go into discovery/imbalance.

The monthly VWAP is not relevant to the breakdown from the IB low.
What is relevant is the Weekly VWAP and the Session as well as the Vol Profile from NY Prev Day.

First things first tho...forget the VWAPS and lets look at the Prev days IMPORTANT levels.
there all on this chart
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PDclose and POC hang out together quite often..Why ? because of the volume that comes in at the daily close.
How is price behaving at these levels ? Now when the IB closes Price slices right thru these levels..thats now a sign
of strength.

Add in your session vwap it is showing price in discovery to the shortside,
Add in Weekly vwap and it shows price returning back into value. and comes right back up
and retests the 1SD(VAH) and retests the IB low the VP POC and the PDClose.

You mentioned VWAP anchored to the prev day NY Open ,,but price does BO of the Lower band 1sd
and returns back inside yes...But you need to look at the bigger picture and all of its confluences.


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The above chart showing the initial breakout and back into value on the weekly vwap 1SD
it then retests for an A+ setup short...


Now if your asking if I would have tried to jump on the very first candle to BO the 9:35 1m...Nope
There is no way I can trade that initial 1min candle or the close of it. too much risk to put on. No place
for a logical SL.

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  • #496
  • Oct 19, 2025 1:47pm Oct 19, 2025 1:47pm
Quoting bluesteele
Here's a video on Volume Profile really simplified and it is exactly how I use it. Chris Drysdale nails it... In this video he uses the NQ as an example.... And Man o Man...I took a quick look at the NQ charts and wholly smokes...Incredible Using the Vol Profile...Composite and VWAP.. A+ setups jumping off the charts at levels that are known and set before the trading session. Once you see it you cant unsee it. I will post up some NQ charts in awhile showing what I see... The value this video gives you and what I will show is priceless and I mean...
As I said a few NQ charts that fit right into what Chris Drysdale is talking about in this video.
Highyl highly recommend watching the video...Chris has a great way of explaining things that is easy
to comprehend.

"The market tends to persist in its current behavior rather than
abruptly changing direction. Instead of predicting shifts, we align
with prevailing market conditions. Trade based on what you see, not
what you hope."

"When price holds or re-enters the VWAP value area, it often
gravitates toward the VWAP. If it moves beyond that level, the next
likely target is the opposite end’s value band."

"When price remains within or returns to VWAP value area, the VWAP
serves as a key magnet. If it fails to break through and accept,
expect a move toward the most recent extreme value band."

~Chris Drysdale VWAP Core setup guide

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  • #497
  • Oct 19, 2025 1:52pm Oct 19, 2025 1:52pm
Quoting moodybot
{quote} Aha!!! .. Nope haven’t gone mad, not yet anyway. I remember talking to Dave years ago about this while watching the USD/JPY pairs gang up on the rest and break off and head for the border. If I was sitting at the computer I knew the move was on due to the amount of number crunching my dashboards/indicators were making causing the fan speed to go into overdrive followed by a locked up chart and no way to jump on the move….. my home grown Pitbull indicator was the real cause… awesome programming...
LOL ! Thats actually quite good ! THe computer starts whirring , volatility enters the room !

Ya the mill....funny ya know the last number of years ,,maybe since covid...its been geesh glad 202_ is over
looking forward to next year ! and now Im thinking the same,,,I dont wish life away but im done with 2025.

Onwards and upwards Andy ! Hope all is well in the Queens Land !
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  • #498
  • Oct 19, 2025 2:04pm Oct 19, 2025 2:04pm
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  • #499
  • Oct 19, 2025 2:22pm Oct 19, 2025 2:22pm
Quoting bluesteele
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The second diagram, to me imho, is pure Wyckoff Theory, which I understand totally.

Volume I can see visually on the chart using PA and market timing ( expectation ).
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  • #500
  • Oct 19, 2025 2:49pm Oct 19, 2025 2:49pm
Quoting Shabs19
{quote} The second diagram, to me imho, is pure Wyckoff Theory, which I understand totally. Volume I can see visually on the chart using PA and market timing ( expectation ).
Totally Wyckoff yep...I agree when price is in congestion or ranging in an area its simply volume building.



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