Shadow Trader – The Market Profile Course
The most comprehensive and complete course on market profile
8 hours of market profile education for profilers of all skill levels
What You’ll Learn In The Market Profile Course
Introduction to Market Profile
- Course structure and overview
- What are markets and what is their purpose? The two way auction that makes all financial markets unique.
- What is Market Profile and what is its purpose?
- Organization of data and value versus price
- The three “laws” that govern all trading
- What is value and how is it calculated?
- Time value areas versus volume value areas
Part 1 – BASICS
- The importance of framework and signposts
- Market profile charts versus traditional candlestick charts
- Why market profile can be used on anything but is especially powerful on futures charts
- Separation of overnight distributions and Regular Trading Hours (RTH)
- The TPO: Time Price Opportunity and the building block of market profile
- The elements of market profile: RTH Open, RTH High, RTH Low, Settlement, Halfback, Overnight Open, Overnight Halfback, POC, Prior POCs, Value Area, VAH, VAL
- Single distributions versus double distributions
- Single prints
- Letter “p” and “b” formations
- Prominent POC
- Excess Highs and Lows
- Poor High
- Poor Low
- Lack of material excess
- 45 degree line
- Squat profiles versus expansion of range
- Spikes
- Anomalies
- Value area placement within range
- Volume at price
Part 2 – THEORY
- Overnight inventory
- Balance versus excess
- The 3 Pre-market questions
- Inventory corrections and the concept of old business versus new business
- Shock and Awe
- When should I trade early versus later?
- Gaps and gap fills
- Acceptance versus rejection
- The Power of WWSHD
- Gap rules
- Spike rules
- Balance rules
- 80% rule
- The 3 questions
- Value development and migration
- Expansion of range versus squat profiles
- Psychology of poor highs/lows and how to trade them
- Weak highs/ lows and how to trade them
- Size and comparison of value areas
- Prominent POCs versus less prominent POCs
- POC migration
- How to trade POCs
- VPOCs and VPOC stacking
- Treatment of VPOCs after expiry
- How to trade double distributions and single prints
- One time framing
- Swing highs and lows in O/N sessions versus RTH
- Treatment of holiday activity
- Volume at price
- The taper
- Why /ES is the preferred future for market profiling over /NQ
- How to build and maintain a narrative
- Confluence of profile nuances and stacking references
Part 3 – APPLICATION
- Weak High (live trade)
- Bounce from base of spike
- Gap fill and gap rule #3
- Rejection from top of single prints (live trade)
- Breakout through confluence of profile nuances (live trade)
- Wating for the taper (live trade)
- Old business versus new business, gap fill, WWSHD
- Developing poor low
- Liquidation Break and volume taper
- Gap Rules #2 & #4, ATH in overnight unsecure
- Gap Rule #3 (live trade)
- POC Migration
- Double Distribution
- Eighty percent rule (live trade)
- The three premarket questions
- Examples of three days of detailed premarket analysis
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