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 with a new Trade of the Week video. In these videos, I’m showing you the most interesting trade that I took that week. Not necessarily the trade that made the biggest profit, but the most interesting one. This week, it was a trade on USD/CAD . So, let me show you. What you see before you is the NinjaTrader 8 platform with my custom-made Volume Profile and VWAP indicators. And this is a 30-minute chart of USD/CAD. The trade that I want to show you was a long. That’s the green dotted line at 1.3769 . It was a long that I took yesterday. It looked like this. Let me show you the reasoning behind this trade. Let me scroll back a bit. Here you can see what happened ...

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, Dan from Funded Trader Academy here with your Trade of the Week. This one comes from Thursday, August 27th, playing off the gap up from the Nvidia earnings that very next trading day. So, we’re going to assess this trade from start to finish. It’s just a little base-hit trade off the open of that Thursday. But before we do that, let’s go build a little bit of broader context here. All right, so as we came into this day’s trading session, we had essentially a consolidation week, a nice D-shaped profile here on the week, and we had some essentially balanced profiles throughout. We’re just sitting in this range right in here, this consolidation range, right? So, Wednesday overnight hits...

Video Transcript Macro news can create some of the biggest and most unpredictable moves in the market. But as a swing trader, you don’t need to avoid every high-impact news event. What matters is knowing which news is truly dangerous, when to step out of a trade, and most importantly, how to get back in afterwards without chasing the market. So let me show you the rules that I use for trading around macro news. Now let’s talk about macro news and the trading rules around macro news because macro news, that’s a big part of trading, right? Almost every day, there’s big macro news. So how do we go about this? If there is standard red news—and by red news, I mean high-impact news. If you go to Forex Factory, then it will be marked in red, right? Those are the red news, or in other words, high-impact news. If there is this red news, I just trade through it, right? I trade through all high-impact news. But to every rule, there is an exception. And the exception is what I call monster news. M...