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: Fair value gaps  are one of the most popular trading concepts right now. But the truth is, most traders don’t really know how to use them properly. In this video, I’ll show you what actually works and what doesn’t, what makes a good fair value gap, and what makes a bad one. And I’ll show you how to build a solid trading strategy around this. So, let me kick this off by telling you what the fair value gap represents. When you look at the chart and there’s a fair value gap, it means that one side of the market is more aggressive than the other. In this case, you can see a downtrend, and in this downtrend there are two fair value gaps. This one highlighted in red and this one also highl...

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 guys, Dan here from Funded Trader Academy with my Trade of the Week. Let’s break down this 15-point bullish trap setup from Friday, April 10th, during the New York morning session on the ES. Okay, so this failed breakout was framed off four different attempts to push above a key level. All right, if we go all the way back, you can see one, two, three, four. Okay, so we’re going to look at this setup from start to finish and dial in the specifics using the Order Flow footprint software to qualify this trade. Before we dial into the specifics, let’s provide a bit of broader market context using the Volume Profile. So, if you go back a few days, you can see this rapid bullish trend of the week...

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: Most traders don’t blow up because of their trading strategy, but because of money management. More specifically, because they change their risk at the worst time possible. So, in this video, I’ll show you exactly how much to risk, when to increase your risk, when to decrease it, and how not to mess it up. If you are growing a small account, then 5% sounds a bit aggressive, but if you really want to turn a small account into a big one, it’s difficult and risky. If you want to do it, you need to risk quite a lot, which I think 5% is more or less okay for this purpose. If, on the other hand, you have a huge account and you want to live off it, then you don’t want to risk too much. It could be, fo...