Original subtitles

Alright, a couple of trades here for the

playbook today. One of these was taken on

stream and the other one was taken off the

public stream. That trade was too quick.

It closed before the stream was able to

start. So I'll break these down in the

playbook because they are worthy of the

playbook trades. It shows A-ranked setups

using the same sort of area and same

cluster, but on two different sides of the

market. This is what I mean when I talk

about in the community. I've mentioned it

to a couple of you guys that you shouldn't

marry your particular bias if you're

expecting a short and you get the small

reaction happens but then it breaks

through. Be willing to quickly flip to a

long bias, at least in the short term. You

can see I took a short first and then a

long second, both using the same sort of

area and same sort of levels. So let's

break them down. We had a cluster of value

levels in here. Very tight sort of range

of value levels across this portion of the

range today. The first trade here, you can

see that it was a short and a very quick

short, only three points. A three-point

scalp using six contracts, just under $1

,000 on this particular trade. So what

we're looking at here is we have the

reinforced value area level, right? We

have the overnight value area low and you

see this very distinctive node or shelf of

volume across here at the time of that

trade. Very distinctive, right? It's not

ambiguous, very sharp edge right across

the overnight value area low and it's also

in very close proximity with that previous

week's value area low. So it was quite a

confident level to look for a quick snap

reaction and it's exactly what we got. As

soon as price approached that level 6653,

I got my limit order, limit sell in there.

It triggered really quick and was done

within a matter of 20, 30 seconds for that

trade to take profit. Three points. Now, I

was only expecting a short little pullback

or reaction from this point because you

can see from the lows down here, if you

look at the low here and look at the

volume, very little volume transacted on

that dip low and was immediately bought

back up. So what that says to me is that

there was a lack of interest at these lows

from, in this case, sellers. Sellers were

not able to continue to push down. They

became uninterested in selling any further

at that price and buyers took over,

pulling price back into value. Very strong

move as well. Little to no pullbacks.

Little to no engagement from sellers. So I

was not expecting this to be a complete

reversal. Rather, just a quick pullback at

a high probability area for that to

happen. Hence, a small trade. Three points

scalped to the downside. And then you can

see not long after that, it reversed. The

other reason for that three point take

profit was I wanted to take profit before

this high volume node here was traded

into. You can see this high volume node

and the current session value low were

right across this area. You can see that's

where that retest happened before price

continued to the upside. So I wanted to be

in and out of that trade fairly quick

before it reversed, continuing to the

upside. So that was trade number one.

Trade number two, you can see I took it

long. Now at the time of that trade, let's

pull the volume profile across to the time

of that trade. And this trade here was

taken at 2.46pm. And let's look at the

profile. So this is just the opposite of

what that first trade was. We'd pulled up

back into value, back into the value of

the current session and back above the

value area lows of the previous week and

the overnight session value low. And back

to around that fair value of the point of

control of overnight. So we can see that's

where the price pulled back into. And I

was looking for my entry to be within this

zone here. So between the overnight value

low and overnight point of control, we

have just a cluster. It's not as distinct,

right? It's not as distinctive as that

first shelf. But there is a definite

cluster of volume sitting across these

levels. So that kind of reinforces this

zone as an area where I'd want to get

long. So I initially wanted my entry to be

a little bit lower into this area here.

But on the DOM at the time, there was a

large amount, 700 plus contracts sitting

on the bid. So I was watching that and I

tried to get filled just in front of that

bulk of orders. And so I got a slightly

less favorable entry, but still within

that zone. And my stop loss still outside

of that high volume node. So I was in a

good area, all things considered. Better

entry would have been deeper, but I got my

entry at 6,655. Right, right in that zone

confirmed by the high volume cluster

within these two value levels. Having been

broken to the upside, coming back to

retest. I'm looking for that long. So I

got long there, filled, and took profit at

five points, which also wasn't entirely

arbitrary. But also because we had this

massive cluster of volume here, definite

shelf of volume sitting right across the

highs here. So I wanted to be out of that

trade within that cluster, not trying to

hold it any further to what was point of

control at the time. And you can see

that's basically where price paused for

the rest of the session for today. If we

pull it across to when I exited my trade,

that's what the profile looks like. And

not long after, that became point of

control itself. So a good exit on that

trade. Decent entry. Could have been a

better entry, but can't complain. Still

got in within the right zone and got out

in the right area, banking two wins in a

row. Same trade idea, same confluences,

basically just using the flip side, right?

Value levels reinforced on the other side

versus value level reinforced from the

underside here. So a good example of how

to use the volume profile to trade both

sides of the market, regardless of bias.

You know, if you're taking a counter trend

move, just take a smaller trade, three

points. If it's an A-rank trade and you

want to take it, just make it smaller. All

right? Anticipating just a smaller move,

counter trend. Boom. Banking that short

and banking that long next. So I hope that

is helpful for you. And I wanted to really

drive home that point. Don't marry your

bias. There are opportunities in both

directions. Just be careful about your

take profit targets to make sure you can

actually lock in that money while price

continues to do its thing.