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Reading the Market Like an Insider — Lessons from the Volume Profile

This book isn’t about signals, setups, or secret formulas. It’s about understanding market behavior from the inside out — how price and volume interact to create structure, balance, and opportunity. It’s the kind of book that changes how you look at the market. Not what you trade, but why you take a trade. Let’s go through some of its most powerful concepts.   1. The Market Is a Business of Value The author describes the market as a continuous auction , constantly searching for fair value . Price moves up when buyers are willing to pay more, and down when sellers are eager to accept less. Volume Profile visualizes this process — showing where value is accepted (high volume areas) and where it’s rejected (low volume areas). High Volume Areas (HVNs) are where the market spent time and traded heavily. These zones act as support/resistance because both buyers and sellers agree that it’s a fair price. Low Volume Areas (LVNs) are places where price moved quickly — ...

Inside “Bollinger on Bollinger Bands”: How to Read Momentum, Volatility, and Market Emotion

 When you read a trading-book and say “oh, I recognise that candle pattern / that breakout / that double top or double bottom”, you may feel you’ve understood the move. But often — even with the correct pattern observed — you still don’t catch the true momentum , the volatility context , or whether the move is real or merely a fade. That’s what this book addresses: it doesn’t just show you patterns, it helps you ask the right questions of those patterns: Is the breakout strong or weak? Is the price move backed by volatility or is it a trap? When a chart says “double top” or “double bottom”, does it mean the move has exhausted or just paused? Below are core concepts I pulled out (and simplified) so that you can use them right away in your trading or chart-analysis mindset. 1. Relative definitions of “high” and “low” One of the foundation ideas: the bands don’t give you absolute high/low — they give you contextual high/low . What does that mean in practice? A ...