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12 Simple Concepts of Market Profile
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Market Profile is a technical concept with a unique charting technique developed by Peter Steidlmayer in 1985.
Market profile is a style of plotting "Price" on the Y-axis and "Time" on the X-axis, which most of the time form a bell-shaped image as the body of the profile
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Market Profile helps day traders identify Other Timeframe Participants (Big players) who have money and information power.
Our job as short-term traders is to follow these big sharks which give direction to markets.
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Each 30-min is designated by a letter, which is also called Time Price Opportunity (TPO)
We denote the first 30 min range with letter βA,β next 30 min with the letter βB,β and we continue this until the end
βOβ is open price level & β#β indicates the closing price level
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The last range is denoted with βMβ as the Indian markets has the last session βM' is for only 15 minutes
This charting in Market Profile is called βSplitβ profile, and pushing these TPOs on the left side (wherever space is present) will create the βUn-Splitβ profile
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Point of Control (POC) is the price level in which maximum time was spent on any day.
In this image 9980 is the point of control (POC).
Value Area (VA) is the 70% price range around POC.
Range from 9958 to 9992 is the Value Area (VA) on this day.
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WHY MARKET PROFILE?
Many traders donβt understand the importance of TIME on both the price and opportunity level
This image shows the same unit of TIME is allocated for both 42 points move and 120 points move
It indicates we are not using the time parameter effectively
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Now, look at the same day in a market profile chart in this image.
It is evident that the TIME has been allocated effectively based on the price variations.
It gives a 3D view of the price auction with respect to time.
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DAY STRUCTURES IN MARKET PROFILE
IB Range is the first 1-hour range in the market.
Based on IB range & price variation around IB range, MP identifies 6 day structures: