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: 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...

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, and in this video I’ll show you the strongest Volume Profile levels to trade this week. We are going to take a look at the euro, the Australian dollar, and the Canadian dollar. So let’s get to it. What you see before you is the NinjaTrader 8 platform with my custom-made Volume Profile and VWAP indicators. And this is EUR/USD , and it is a 30-minute time frame. Here I want to talk about a resistance, which is here at this red line, and that resistance is at 1.1642 . Now, this resistance is based on this very strong sell-off from Friday, and it’s also based on the volumes that formed before the sell-off. So if I show you with a Volume Profile like this, then you can ...

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. Let’s take a look at this 6.5-point base-hit trade from Monday, August 17, 2026, on the S&P futures contract. We’re going to assess this trade from start to finish here using a couple of tools. We’re going to use this Order Flow tool called Deltaflow, which incorporates the flows of delta throughout these one-minute bars here. So, we’re going to take a look at that for this rotation that took place up here. But more broadly speaking, let’s start from the higher time frame, where we’re really going to assess some Smart Money concepts framework. Okay, so heading into Monday, let’s just kind of recap where price was, right? We were...