Today has been a dream day for AMT. We have basically been balancing all day and all an AMT trader has had to do is sell the unfair highs and buy the unfair lows (of the developing profile). The VSA trade I took was a bit different and a really ...

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Welcome. Can't wait to hear some of your ideas. I prefer volume because I am a VSAer as well and therefore volume plays an important role in my thinking. Again, there IS volume in spot forex. It is tick volume and not actual traded volume but it ...

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In the properties window select restart time under study mode. Then in the upper left corner under Parameters the third one down is restart. Input 0300 or 300 in that box. This will change the start time of the histogram not the start time of the ...

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Here's what it looks like from my perspective on the 5 min. My profiles start at 0300 New York time.

Auction Market Theory and Market Profile

I mentioned a couple of worthwhile webinars from value zone trading that can be found on Traderkingdom.com. Well, here's an example of a trade in action. video

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Okay, I held my tongue all weekend. I wish I hadn't but better late than never. IF you follow Gavin, you would note that the trend is down-the bars are red, the diamonds are red and price is below the diamonds (see malc's TG chart in the EURO ...

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Even better — This is a superb video for AMT traders and traders in general: video

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Very simple use of AMT — Interesting video on youtube. You may want to follow the links to the actual webinar. video

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Yes, they're not magic of course, but very good to know where they are. The chart below was already posted, but this time I just added the IBs. I'm thinking that "key" 6 should be 8*: 1. Yesterday's VAH 2. Yesterday's VAL 3. Yesterday's POC 4. ...

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No. After about 1300 hrs New York time futures volume dries up.

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I was lucky and caught the down move after this. From a VSA standpoint, I like that it all starts with Ultra High Volume. From an Auction Market Theory point of view, there were clear signs of Responsive Selling at the Unfair highs.

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The man crush grows... Virgin POC below at 3544 and Virgin POC at 3703

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It was mentioned in the VSA thread in another way, but yesterday was the narrowest value area in 4 days. If this market moves to imbalance it could be big. Simply put, the day type today very well could be a trend day. Play accordingly.

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This example is beautiful, but alas not a trade taken. The Responsive Buying at unfair lows based on the Developing Value Area turns into Initiative Buying as price moves off the Value Area High from the previous day.

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The exception would of course be single prints, but then again single prints are hard to see without the letters.

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As far as low volume nods go, I come at them from a VSA perspective. Low volume means little professional activity at that price level, so I figure if its not that important to them then its not that important to me. In reality, you will find that ...

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This is the reason I originally used 1700 hrs New York time as my start/stop time. I have recently migrated to using 0300 hrs New York time ( London Open) and run it for 24 hrs. If I was going to tade the Yen or the Aussie$ I think I would use the ...

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I got a PM with a couple of questions. I think all might benefit from the answers. Answer #1: Take a look at the chart below from yesterday. Since most here do use VSA, we can speak a bit more about what VSA is telling us. The Responsive selling at ...

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Yes, the values will very a bit from a 30 minute to a 5 minute or 15 minute. Traditionally one would place the 30 minute numbers on a 5 minute chart. Today, however, most would simply use one or the other as the difference should not be that much.

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Long @ 1.3611 (6E)

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