Day Trading using Market Profile. Market Profile Training. Market Profile. Market Profile or Volume Profile? You may have read something in one of my blogs where I talk about a "profile". There are two types of profiles that I use to assess the market and to trade with; they are the Market Profile and Volume Profile. The Market Profile provides a structure to look at market generated information, so that as the day progresses, a trader can view a "profile" of the market. The Market Profile provides valuable information about the structure of the trading day that traders use to place, manage and exit trades. The Market profile represents price over a period of time, whereby time is equated at some level to volume. Here is an example of a Market Profile. However, with modern data and graphing capability, we can now see that price over a period of time does not equate to real volume.
The volume profile is closely associated with the market auction process. Here is an example of a volume profile: Steidlmayer Volume Strips: J. Peter Steidlmayer. Trading sur future de taux (Bund / T note) avec le Market Profile. MP Stratege. Market Profile. Trader avec le Market Profile (page 1) | Market Profile.