As you analyze TPO Profile Charts there are some important things to note that you can use for trading throughout the day, but you need to ensure you understand the bigger picture first. You should have a view of what the market is trying to do. And is it doing a good job of it?
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“Price advertises, Time regulates and Volume confirms or rejects opportunities” Quote - Jim Dalton
Next to the TPO Profile is a Volume Profile and that's something you may or may not be familiar with. Here we have it set side by side and we do that for contrast so we can see volume as well as TPO profile. The one with letters is the TPO Profile and that is time-based, whereas the other profile is the volume profile and that is built based on how much volume is trading at each price.
Let’s start with a little background on what TPO charts, and where the letters and numbers came from that make up the TPO Profile charts. On the trading floor, when the traders were in the pit and they had a trading card, each half-hour was called a bracket and when they traded, they would have to write down the letter of the bracket that the trade occurred in. So, each letter was very specific to a half-hour time frame and that's how the letters became the building blocks for the TPO charts.
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