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How to Trade Reversals Using Imbalances and Order Flow

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, welcome, everybody. Dan from Funded Trader Academy here. We are going to take a look at my S&P 22-point trade of the week, which just hit yesterday on June 29, 2026. But we are going to go through a little broader context here, just to start things off. As we look at how this market materialized going into the morning of the 29th, this is what we were looking at just before the bell. We had a 4-hour and a daily bearish imbalance to the upside of price, and we had some bullish imbalances to the downside of price. We had some consolidation and some D-shaped volume profiles in here. There was a little bit of consolidation, a dip, and then a recovery. In the short term, we had some b...

Order Flow Pullback Strategy: Trade Big Volume Clusters

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 is great because it shows us where big players were active in the market. Those places are often very important, and price likes to react to them later as support or resistance. So, in this video, I’ll show you a simple way to find those areas with Order Flow and how to trade pullbacks from them. With this strategy, you want to set the time frame to a 5-minute to 60-minute time frame. What I prefer is the 30-minute time frame. You can see that in the picture here. So, this is a 30-minute time frame, and you look for a volume cluster within a trend. What you see here in this picture is Order Flow. It doesn’t show Bid and Ask. It only shows total volumes. And you see that in here, ther...

🎯 Top Volume Profile Levels to Trade This Week on NQ, GBP/USD & USD/JPY

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. In this video, I’ll show you the strongest volume profile levels to trade this week. We’ll take a look at an intraday trade on NQ , and we’ll also look at a couple of swing trading ideas. So, let’s get to it. What you see before you is an NQ chart, and we are looking at a 30-minute time frame. What I want to talk about here is this resistance, this one which is at 30120 . The reasoning behind this resistance is that there’s a volume profile setup that I like to trade, and the volume profile setup is called the Volume Accumulation Setup. First, you need to see rotation, which is followed by strong trend activity, ideally very aggressive trend activity like this on...

9:30 Open Liquidity Strategy Explained

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 I am going to show you a little play or type of strategy that you can start using right away. This is going to happen almost every day, and it is going to happen pretty much in the first 10 minutes of the market. It is very easy to understand. There are two ways to do this strategy. You can either use a data wick off a news event, like CPI, PPI, or non-farm payrolls, or what I am going to show you today is using the 9:30 open. The concept behind this is very simple. At 9:30, we are going to create a 1-minute candle. That candle is going to look something like this. It could be a little bearish, it could be bullish, it does not...