How do you guys trail SL? Behind market structure/big trades etc...
Is it even worth trailing SL? Or put to breakeven and let it run?
I personally trail behind big bubbles, but many times get stopped out by the pullback
Saw a video by a trader who uses a tool called LMS (Liquidity Mapping Suite) which overlays major buying and selling points on the chart, so you can visually identify support and resistance levels. This sounds so convenient to me. Like yeah you can see the orderbook if you want, but to overlay is visually on a chart just makes it so much more useful.
It's happened many times that I think a stock will explode, and I see some profit, but it deflates instantly and I exit at cost to cost. This'll help me avoid that and at least take some profit if I know in advance that a wave of selling is coming.
But I looked up the tool, it's only available for US futures trading on NinjaTrader. Do you guys know any alternative for this that's available on TradingView and would work with Indian stocks?
Thanks!
I understand the concept of Orderflow, Volume and Market profile. I am having trouble converting that to buy and sell signals. When do you enter a trade e.g. when price goes above the Point of Control (PoC) in a large volume. I would appreciate any resources to study and understand these.
So I have been introduced to this order flow trading after countless losses from retail concepts but I don't know where to begin. I used AI to give a curriculum but still stuck whether where to find the sources and will they be good videos or valid things I just don't know where to start or what to do pls help me
Thank u for everyone who helps me
How do you guys read pre-market opening in nq? Is there anything to read? Do you take the ETH into account when starting NY? Or just 30-60 mins before opening?
Somedays the move is straight at the the start, impossible to catch and i was wondering if there's any way to catch
Guys iam lokin to buy a orderflow software for trading crypto,can anyone tell me which one is the best.
I’ve learned that trading with the trend helps significantly I have a few emas I use to help identify the overall trend before I even think about trading.
I have tried ITC smc which too much marking and lots of concept which is helpful for bookish traders but i have seen my 9-20 strategy works sometimes which gives me small but proper TP and SL. But i feel i need to understand it properly so any suggestion around this ???
i’ve been in orderflow trading a couple of months now, and when i started learning everyone started telling me to have an entry model. But isn’t it better to find entry wherever i want as soon as they
1: make sense
2: follow htf picture
3: location of interest
4: confirmation (with orderflow)
?
Most traders look at price. Where did it go, how fast, what candle pattern formed. But price alone doesn't tell you why it stopped where it stopped. Volume profile helps with that. It's just showing you where actual trading happened. Not when. Where. That shift in thinking changes a lot, especially if you’re trading SPY 0DTE inside an eval account where one bad entry can mess with your drawdown buffer. What the chart is actually telling you Look at this. VAH at 739.00, VAL around 738.50. That's your value area where the bulk of volume got transacted. Price inside that range isn't doing anything interesting. Market accepted those prices. That 7.29K bar around 738.70 is the real thing to notice. That's a HVN. Enormous amount of contracts traded right there. Price doesn't just cut through that level cleanly. It gets absorbed, slows down, sometimes just dies. Not because of some indicator signal. Because there's real supply and demand sitting there from actual transactions. Then there are the gaps. Tiny bars, near zero volume. Those levels have no history. There’s less prior participation there. Price tends to move through those fast because there's nothing to stop it. Why it actually matters You can have a perfect looking SPY 0DTE and still lose because you walked straight into a HVN 40 cents above your entry. The trade wasn't always wrong, sometimes it can be location. For a funded options eval, that matters even more. You don’t just need direction. You need clean location, because chop near heavy volume can burn entries, stops, and drawdown. Volume profile just tells you where the traffic is before you drive into it. That's it. Not magic, just context that price charts alone don't give you. Anyone else layering Volume Profile for SPY/options evals, or is this mostly a futures tool in your workflow?
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MES June 2026 contract. I just wanted to share this with the sub. For people just starting out using OF, understanding what absorption looks like and how to use it to follow a trend is the key to high probability trades. The top chart shows buyers being swept (green bubbles) but price is failing to make a new high (absorption). The bottom chart (CVD) is showing the same thing. Once we slip past the London POC (red line) we see sell orders getting swept, probably stops being triggered. I entered short heading back up to the London POC and targeted yesterday's NY POC (teal line). We obviously made it to the Over Night POC (gold line) but over all I'm very happy with this trade. I used Trade Detector, Cumulative Delta and Volume Profiles in NinjaTrader.
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Hello, this is day 20 of journaling Orderflow and GEX
Today i took 2 trades, 1 Breakeven and 1 Win, i could've really let that winner run but i'm still happy with what i've got and for not being greedy.
This was the first trade, the setup is the momentum squeeze that i'm mostly using these days, usually i am aggressive to trail my SL so it was ok that i got stopped out.
I wait for a contrary absorption near a pain level and enter with a limit order in the high of the previous candle.
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This was the same setup, this time i wanted to target session low.
Successful setup, since i gave away a lot of my profit these days i wanted to take it out at the session low and not let ride 50% of the position until i gets stopped.
I took home what i could, you never go broke taking profits.
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Let me know what do you think about today setups, i will for sure take better setups as soon as i get a better platform for optionsflow.
Exhausted Buyers, huge sell order block, big negative delta close, clusters of 5x and 10x sell side imbalances.
Hi All. I'm reading Al Brooks "Reading Price Charts Bar By Bar" and I'm just not grasping the concept of H2/H3 and L2/L3. One minute I think I get it, then he calls out a bar and says it's L2 and I just fundamentally don't understand how it could possibly be L2. I'll upload some scans of the pages that illustrate my confusion. Page 118 (the section on H2/L2) he says "when a bear market is correcting sideways or up, the first bar with a low below the prior bars low is a low 1, ending the first leg". In the scan I've attached, the candle he says is an L2 has a significantly higher low than the previous candle. What am I not understanding?
Mentoring a trader for a few weeks and as always when I do this sort of this the issues are the same.
A lot of the times the order flow tools or their strategy is not the problem. The problem is a lack of understanding how the market actually works. It’s not AMT or based on value of any kind. People need to pay attention to microstructure. I’m curious to know if anyone has looked into this before or if anyone has any questions about it then fire away and I’ll do my best to answer them :)
Edit: (FWIW I’ve been doing this for 16 years professionally and have worked for multiple firms in Europe and the States)
For those who trade NQ/MNQ, what do you find works best with ICT OTE and Volume Profile?
I currently use OTE, HVN/LVN, and POC. Are there any other confluences or tools you’d recommend that have improved your entries?
