Time, price,volume and 4th factor
Lets start from the very foundation of market profile ..
who are the auction partcipants ?
. Local market makers
. Day traders
. Intermediate-swing traders
. Long time frame traders
This auction create market-generated information, auction organize and reflect the attitudes of the market's partcipants,thus creating market-generated information.
The key to reading market-generated information is
.Time
.Price
.Volume
This i sthe primary tool of market profile
now there is another time of auction involved ..auction of option buying and option selling..
option sellers are considered as Smart Money, though there r verious contradictory theories, lets not get in to this,
but Indian market is special in this sense, option market hasnt yet developed and there r normally in the month options are liquid and those only of nifty index,
there is still attraction of quick money among this high volatility ( vix)
higher vix means greater fear which by standard mathematical model increase the option premium
This option induced data is very meangful when look in to context of market profile, i am not a great reader of volume distribution but i found option induced information very profitable in my trading...
there ant any secrets in trading and nor i intend to have one, its about the art and how u adjust ur knowledge to earn money, which come by practice..
In this thread, now and then i will try to explain market profile using 4th factor/ dimension as option open interest
i assume every one knows te calculations of option open interest put call ratio which i extensively use in my trades..
here is the chart explaining todays activity ( plz note o.i.pcr is daily ) ..there is a build up of 92 lk o.i. around 2500 pe ( not shown in chart ) and this build up is since last few days, but still oi pcr is decreasing which indicates there is call writing ahppening around resistance zone or u can say most strong
value areas,
If 2500 nifty broke ( which we proved mathematically an important psychological area) then there wd be heavy selling from other time frames.
