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“Mate, how do you actually use Volume profile or AMT when looking at a chart? Anything more I can learn?" Ok guys, let's drop the whole framework with the hope that you may find interesting ideas to apply to your journey/trading. (❗️Brutal value below❗️) Disclaimer: As always, everyone has a different style and the goal is not copying someone else's strategy but building a process that provides statistical advantage over time (after backtesting). What works for me might not work for you depending on timeframe, goals and availability. (Quite long post, if you're lazy skip it (but don't expect results/improvments) 🔸 1st step -> Understanding what Volume Profile actually represents. Volume Profile is simply the distribution of traded volume across price levels, not across time like traditional volume bars. This allows you to see where the market actually accepted value and where it rejected it. From a basic perspective, there are 3 important elements: • POC (Point of Control) → the price with the most traded volume • Value Area (VA) → where roughly 68/70% of the trading activity occurred (divided into VAH and VAL) • High Volume Nodes (HVNs) → areas of acceptance • Low Volume Nodes (LVNs) → areas of rejection or inefficiency HVNs act like magnets for price because they represent equilibrium where buyers and sellers previously agreed on value. I like to think, instead, about LVNs as "highways" where price tends to move quickly due to the lack of prior transactions. Already here you can start understanding why the market often accelerates through certain areas and slows down around others. 🔸2nd step -> Auction Market Theory Markets are basically continuous auctions between buyers and sellers. The market constantly asks a question: “Is this price fair?” - If participants accept the price → the market builds value. - If participants reject the price → the market moves to find a new fair value. This creates 2 fundamental environments: - Balance (equilibrium) Price rotates inside value areas and HVNs. - Imbalance (discovery) Price leaves value and searches for a new fair value. Recognizing when the market is balancing vs discovering is one of the most simple yet powerful concepts in trading. If the market is balanced → expect rotations. If the market is imbalanced → expect continuation. 🔸 3rd step -> reading the shape of the profile This is something that usually gets unnoticed. Volume profiles often form recognizable structures: • D-shaped profile → balanced market, rotation • P-shaped profile → short covering -> bullish continuation • b-shaped profile → long liquidation -> bearish continuation • Double distribution → market transitioning between 2 value areas The shape of the volume tells you what's happening in the auction. "Eh? What do you mean?" For example: A P-shaped profile has higher probability of appearing after aggressive short liquidations where the market rallies and then builds value at the top -> based on context it's a bullish sign -> why? -> If the market holds the upper value area, it suggests that after shorts were squeezed, new buyers are accepting higher prices. A b-shaped profile usually appears after longs get trapped and forced to exit -> based on context it's a bearish sign -< why? -> If the market accepts lower prices after the liquidation, it suggests new sellers are active, not just liquidation. These structures help you understand who is trapped and where liquidity might sit, forming a bias. 🔸4th step -> Identifying volume voids One of the most powerful concepts is the Volume Void. These are areas where very little volume was traded. Because the market previously rejected those prices quickly, when price re-enters these zones it often moves very fast. You will see tht volume voids frequently align with: • FVGs • Impulsive candles • Liquidity sweeps When multiple inefficiencies overlap, the probability of fast price movement increases significantly, so you can use them to your own advantage. 🔸 5th step -> Value migration Another key AMT concept is observing how value shifts over time. - If the POC and value area move higher, the market is accepting higher prices → bullish context. - If value migrates lower, the market is accepting lower prices → bearish context. In this GBP/USD example I made you can clearly see the migration of value + the concepts explained. However, in my experience the real edge comes when price moves away from value too aggressively. Markets tend to revisit previous value areas because auctions like to rebalance unfinished business. That's why many large moves eventually retrace toward prior POCs or HVNs. 🔸Sixth step -> Combining VP with price action Volume Profile alone is not enough, nor it will ever be. It becomes powerful when combined with: • S&D zones • Liquidity pools • MS (HH/HL or LH/LL) • FVGs or inefficiencies Example: Price sweeps liquidity above a swing high → enters a LVN → rejects from a HTF supply zone. That confluence creates a much stronger trade idea than using any single tool, in my experience. The profile simply provides context about where the auction is strong or weak. 🔸 Seventh step -> Execution The most important step, isn't it? Once the levels are mapped, I usually monitor: • Reactions at HVNs or POCs • Fast moves through LVNs • Acceptance or rejection outside value areas • Value area shifts - If price re-enters value after a breakout, there's a high probability of a rotation across the value area. - If price accepts above or below value, the market has a higher probability for starting a new auction. Based on this I plan my longs and my shorts but also (and that's probably the most important part) I adjust the stop loss in a dynamic manner, meaning that I wait for the price to test and to be rejected from a value area before moving my stop depending on my bias (long🔼 or short 🔽) That’s basically the framework I use when incorporating Volume Profile and AMT into my analysis. It's pretty much logical that you need time to assimilate these concepts, but to me and for my style they're the best I can use, so I highly encourage you to study them. They don't replace price action, but they reveal the structure of the auction behind it, which is 🔑 As always, if you found this helpful, the like and repost buttons are just a few centimeters below.

✍️Market dynamics/price action 101 tips: When the price explodes in one direction, the least likely outcome is an immediate V-shaped reversal. Could it happen? Yes, but for that to occur, the opposing side would need enough capital and conviction to absorb all aggressive order flow and instantly it, which is extremely rare in my experience. After a violent expansion, the dominant side still holds a lot of inventory. Meanwhile, early counter-trend traders often get squeezed before any meaningful rotation develops. So: • Pullbacks are typically continuation setups • Trapped traders look for relief, adding supply on rallies in selloffs and demand on dips in rallies Traders who missed the impulse wait for retracements to enter and thise caught on the wrong side wait for bounces to exit. “So what I should you look for, mate?” A range formation. In a range, buyers and sellers start negotiating again, building new fair value. Trapped traders can exit slowly and new positions can be added without impacting the price too much. At the same time, structure forms. SHs and SLs become clear reference points and when the price eventually breaks from that range, the move tends to be cleaner and more sustainable because inventory has reset and weaker hands have been cleared. 👉 Violent expansion → Don’t fade early → Range forms → Structure builds, mark levels → Break occurs, trade expansion What’s required? Patience, something rare I would say.

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Walk out onto the beach in front of my house, i lie down on the sand, close my eyes. Deep peace comes over me. I imagine myself spiraling down into the earth, gravity becomes heavier. Deep feelings of bliss and joy begin, little shakes happen and feelings of hot and cold alternate, darkness becomes deeper. Total bliss and light overpowers sensations of the physical body, the sensation of body and time disappear, god/absolute/unity/oneness is near. I am aware, but i guess saying awareness is there would be more accurate. Everything disappears...words cannot describe this Suddenly i feel someone pulling really hard on my arm, i hear people say in a foreign language: ¨is he dead?¨. Another guy says: ¨no..he is still breathing...why is he not responding¨. I open my eyes, two fishermen stand above me and say ¨hello¨. Oh...hello...i reply I stand up, say thanks, and walk back home, writing this post, going to sleep now Damn.....life is just amazing

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I don't usually talk about my current life outside of here. But I cannot just not talk about this. I'm moving to a new house in 5 days. We're in the middle of packing our stuff with my wife and deciding how to handle the move properly. But the excitement we have for it is beyond what I could've imagined. I just can't contain myself 🤭 - I did it with trading only; NOTHING ELSE. - Did it only with the technical analysis some call bullshit. - Did it with no institutional experience and no mentor. And I'm still amazed that I could pull this off without any outside help. Like I mean literally I thought this is impossible. Especially since I'm alone in a country that isn’t my home, where I knew no one 4–5 years ago, I thought it might take 20 years to be able to do this🤣. But here I am, signing the documents. I will also do a really nice giveaway soon in my YouTube channel with my new video (from my own pocket of course as I don't do affiliations with ANY propfirms or websites). I'm in the middle of the house moving right now but I will choose 5-10 people myself and will mention them in the video when it's out. The giveaway will be between the accounts who I think deserve it and which have been really supportive of me here. To all my hardworking friends; So many of you have been with me since the start and watched me reach this stage. What a journey, truly! I know you'll also feel the same excitement soon. May the light inside you grow more day by day. ✨

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The NPC theory: “most people” don’t really have deep inner lives where they yearn for meaning and purpose, they’re just incentive-following automatons who will do whatever satisfies their hardwired drives. Just sheep following the trends.

My favourite quote from Hagakure "A man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams." You're going to die anyway. Stop playing it safe.

Good night

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$BTC [update] "If you can't break the highs, you are going to come for the lows". All the macro POI's remain the same. Also highly advice everyone to watch this video in case we go lower: x.com/larskooistra_/…

The self is an illusion