Volume Profile
NeutralReliability: HighAlso called · POC, high-volume node
Price areas where a lot of trading happened. They often act as support and resistance.
How to spot it
- Price levels where volume concentrated
- Areas price sat in for a long time before a sharp move
Why this shape forms
It turns volume sideways to show how much traded at each price. Prices that traded heavily hold positions and references.
Where it actually means something
The result changes completely with the range you select. Decide first whether you are studying the recent leg or the whole history.
What else to check
Heavy nodes tend to stall price on the way back; empty ones get crossed quickly. Read both properties together.
This means you're wrong
If price passes through the area on volume, treat that supply as absorbed.
The mistake beginners make
Forgetting that it is read on the price axis, not the time axis.
Easy to confuse with
Assuming a thick node is always resistance is wrong. Once it is cleared it becomes support of the same thickness.
Real examples from the community
Patterns are probabilistic tendencies, not guarantees. This is not investment advice.