UNDERSTANDING THE DOM FOR DAY TRADING: (thread>>>)
Make sure to read till end.
Topics Covered in This Thread:
1. Primary concept of the DOM. 2. Understanding the features of the DOM. 3. Explaining use of order flow. 4. Settings you can use to organise your DOM.
Primary Concept of the DOM:
- To read where positions of limit are of use at price lvls.
- Used to understand live liquidity of a market.
- Analysing trade environment and entry positioning.
How to Access:
> Simply open up the DOM via Exocharts desktop to access,
Understanding Features of the DOM:
- The key features you should know when it comes to reading the DOM.
- I've highlighted the info here >>
Features of the DOM pt 2:
- Other features of the DOM i haven't mentioned include...
Understanding the order flow of the DOM:
- By filtering DOM values to show only larger values, filtering out low liquidity at price lvls, overall liquidity can be seen.
- Trend health can be observed via buy and sell walls and potential reversals.
Explained in detail below.
2 Settings you can use to organise your DOM:
Bid, Ask > Combine Bid and Ask columns.
This allows for more real estate on your charts as well as not interfering with info.
Filters > Bid-Ask hide text if <insert.
Filters out smaller values of vol for easier observing.
So much more info i'd like to cover on DOM coming in the future.
Such a useful and interesting tool to use when trading.
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different types and how I've learnt to use them...
Profiles 🧵
Here's what's discussed...
• Profile briefing
• Value Area
• Volume profiles
• Open Interest profiles
• Bid-ask profiles
• TPO profiles
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Profile Briefing
A way to visualise the distribution of different readings of order flow.
Profiles are used for readings, inside individual candles, ranges in price action as well as trending moves which is all explained further in the thread.
Profile distributions are represented as bars of segregated price levels. The width of these price levels depends on the tick size multiplier in which you choose.
Tick size being the smallest increment price can move on an asset. For example on BTCUSDT Bybit tick size = $0.10, meaning if I set my profiles to a tick of 100, each bar will represent $10 of price.
The size of each bar will be relative to bars only inside its own profile.
Now that is out of the way lets talk about different ones I use and how I use them.
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VWAP being the volume weighted average price of a market.
It is plotted as a line from an initial starting point (time or pivot based), and helps us understand where price is at fair value and away from it.
It operates in many methods for traders. This thread covers some of the ways I use it in my analysis.
It is calculated and adjusted through the volume and typical price changes in each following candle. The typical price is calculated using the sum of the high + low + close price in a candle divided by 3 (hlc3).
• initial Balance
• double distribution
• open drive
• unfinished auctions
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Initial Balance
1st hour of a trading day (00:00 UTC for BTC) is referred to as the initial balance (IB).
It plays an important part of understanding different daily distribution types, which is covered in the next pages.
For instance the position of an IB within the tpo, when in the middle, highlighting a more balanced distribution day whereas near the top or bottom, highlighting a day of imbalance price shifts.
Represented by a line beside the tpo market profile.
On the tpo, as it uses 30m candles, the IB will represent the range of the first 2 30m candles, shown below.
Retests of the IB after breaking out are common areas to look for support or resistance in price.
Volume poc’s being the price area with the most volume.
(within a specified range of price action)
The range of price actions are usually session based (ie a daily or weekly range). The way I like to use these levels is after they have already formed, not as they are forming.
This is because as these ranges form the levels for the poc may change.
Hence looking for old naked poc's or npoc's which are point of controls that have not yet been revisited.
Looking at the point of controls from a LTF perspective works best for trading reactions from them in my experience.
For me I prefer to focus on candle stick consolidation or daily volume profiles for npoc's on BTC.
• TPO blocks
• TPO tails
• Single Prints
• Time poc
• Inefficiencies
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TPO blocks
These blocks are each lettered and assigned to a specific 30m candle within a given session.
Blocks are then stacked and compiled to form a profile known as a market profile or TPO "time price opportunity".
Blocks proceed in alphabetical order starting from Capitals then moving onto lower case letters. A typical day will start with an assigned letter "A" and end on lower case "x".
Here's a comparison for how it is compiled with illustrated expanded cluster...