Trader Dale - Volume Profile Trading Blog

Do you want ME to help YOU with your trading? Learn my proven Volume Profile & Order Flow trading strategies! Get my proprietary indicators and start making progress. We even set the indicators up for you so you can hit the ground running TODAY! Start Learning to Trade Now! Video Transcript: Hey everyone, it’s Dale here. In this video, I want to show you how to properly set up volume footprints in TradingView so you don’t have to use the terrible default layout that looks like this. It is messy, hard to read, and not good if you want to trade footprints seriously. Instead, I’ll show you a clean, professional setup that looks like this, where the key information is clear, easy to read, and easy to trade from. It’s not just about colors it’s also about showing the right data the right way. So let’s get to it. First, what you need to do is have a TradingView plan so you can access volume footprints. You need the Premium plan, which costs around €50 per month. Once you have that, Tradi...

  Do you want ME to help YOU with your trading? Learn my proven Volume Profile & Order Flow trading strategies! Get my proprietary indicators and start making progress. We even set the indicators up for you so you can hit the ground running TODAY! Start Learning to Trade Now! Video Transcript: All right, hello everyone. This is David from Trader Dale, and today we’re going to go over a recent swing trade that we did on Bitcoin. I’m going to show you how we caught the recent move down and the overall basic logic behind it, which is pretty standard logic that we use in our trading, not only for swing trading but also for day trading as well. Okay. So, Bitcoin has been in a major up move really since 2023. The way we understand order flow is that price displaces and creates Fair Value Gaps along the way. We are on a monthly chart, so we’re looking more long term. We have a Fair Value Gap here that price tapped into and held, and then eventually moved higher, taking out those previ...

Do you want ME to help YOU with your trading? Learn my proven Volume Profile & Order Flow trading strategies! Get my proprietary indicators and start making progress. We even set the indicators up for you so you can hit the ground running TODAY! Start Learning to Trade Now! Video Transcript: Order Flow sometimes shows strong buying or selling, and it looks like the trend should continue. But what if it doesn’t? That’s where traders get trapped, and it often leads to a strong reversal. In this video, you’ll learn how to spot it and how to trade that reversal move. Now, another concept that I’d like to show you is trapped traders. This is quite a popular concept, and it’s funny that it’s actually called trapped traders, because those traders are not really trapped, but people keep calling them that. So let’s stick with that terminology and talk about them as trapped traders as well. Here’s what it means. Take a look at this chart. Price goes up, and then at this footprint the order f...

Do you want ME to help YOU with your trading? Learn my proven Volume Profile & Order Flow trading strategies! Get my proprietary indicators and start making progress. We even set the indicators up for you so you can hit the ground running TODAY! Start Learning to Trade Now! Video Transcript: Hello everyone, it’s Dale here. Welcome to this video where I’ll show you the strongest Volume Profile levels to trade this week. We’ll talk about the  AUD/USD , the  USD/CAD , and also about the  GBP/USD .  So let’s get to it. What you see before you is the 30-minute chart of the  AUD/USD . The platform is NinjaTrader 8, and the indicators are my custom-made Volume Profile and VWAP indicators. What you can see here on the AUD/USD chart I would say the most prominent thing is this strong rejection of low prices. That means sellers were pushing the price aggressively downwards. Then there was a sudden reversal with this nice pin bar, and the price went up. So this is a si...