MarketProfile Indicator For MT5
Table Of Contents:
- MarketProfile Indicator For MT5
- How to Interpret MarketProfile Indicator For MT5
- How to Trade Using MarketProfile Indicator For MT5
The MarketProfile Indicator For MT5 groups the prices of an underlying asset in to blocks of discrete time periods. For each time period charted by the indicator, a histogram represents the volume traded at the different price intervals during that period. Consequently, the longest horizontal bar denotes the price at which most volume has been traded.
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How to Interpret MarketProfile Indicator For MT5
Market Profile as a trading technique was developed by J. Peter Steidlmayer in the 1960s. The MarketProfile Indicator For MT5 is not a typical technical analysis indicator, as it doesn’t generate any buy-sell signals. Rather, it is a data organizer that traders can utilize to assist in decision making.
Throughout a trading session, different buy and sell orders are placed in a market. Whenever these orders get executed, a market value area is established. This particular area represents an equilibrium between demand-supply forces. The distribution of these demand-supply forces takes the shape of a normal distribution curve. The primary driver of changes within the distribution curve is trading volume. Trending periods during the day shifts this distribution curve towards different value areas.
The MarketProfile Indicator For MT5 is computed using what are called Time Price Opportunities (TPO). The longest horizontal bar at which most volume has been traded is called Point of Control (POC). This is the row where the largest number of TPOs with the most volume was registered. And this is the precisely the area that traders closely monitor because it likely denotes the value area that will most likely be associated with a particular trading session. Prices will tend to establish a particular POC and then oscillate around that level.
Through the use of MarketProfile Indicator For MT5, a trader can identify different types of days based on how new value areas are formed:
• Trend Days – During an up trending or a down trending session, a particular value area is constantly being redefined.
• Semi- Trend Days – When a one-off event generates a sudden market move but the trend subsequently stagnates
• Choppy Days – In the absence of any directional price move, the value areas tend to not change enormously through a trading session.
• Full Reversal Days – The market prints a strong directional move that gets completely nullified by a move in the opposite direction.
How to Trade Using MarketProfile Indicator For MT5
The MarketProfile Indicator For MT5 is particularly useful in trading reversals and ranges. It however doesn’t work so well during trending sessions. Ideally, the MarketProfile Indicator For MT5 should be used in intraday time frames of 1 hour and below.
As explained above, Point of Control (POC) – and the associated value area – is likely to change throughout the trading day. The POC area is surrounded by extreme values - the upper extreme and the lower extreme. These extreme values can broadly be defined as the boundaries of price volatility during a given session.
Traders can profit from this information by placing trades whenever price hits either of the extreme boundaries. For example, a reversal trading opportunity could materialize if price spikes to the upper extreme and we witness a decline in eagerness among traders to sustain this up move further. This drop in eagerness will get registered in the MarketProfile Indicator For MT5. Traders could initiate shorts at this extreme with a very short stop loss just above the upper boundary. As a target, the other extremity – in this case the lower extreme – would be a logical place to book profits.
