Category: Trading Operations
The blobs on the book are not all the same. One is a target, the other is a wall.
How to read a liquidity heatmap: why a long trace is a target and a fresh one is a barrier, and what…
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Before I open a chart I ask myself four questions
The routine I use to prepare the week in ten minutes: COT positioning, macro calendar, gamma and levels. Four questions, in this…
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The value area is not 70%. It is a knob.
The VPOC is a measurement, the value area is a setting. Where the 70% comes from, how the area is really built,…
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The volume you are looking at is not volume (and it is not useless either)
On forex and CFDs the volume column counts ticks, not contracts. What it really measures, how good a proxy it is, and…
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CVD does not tell you who is buying. It tells you who is in a hurry.
Delta and CVD explained properly: what they actually measure, the three different reasons a divergence appears, and why the third one is…
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Poor high and poor low: the extreme that never finished the job
Poor high and poor low, or bad high and bad low: how to spot an extreme where the auction never closed, excess…
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Absorption, exhaustion, imbalances: how you pick the price of your order
Absorption, exhaustion and imbalances on the footprint, and how a setup is built: why an FVG is a volumetric void, with two…
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Bid/ask candles: what a normal candle doesn’t tell you
What bid/ask footprint candles are and how to read them: volume at every price, delta, and who was really aggressive. With a…
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