Thanks to Paul for helping me on yet another pretty frustrating day for me. Always helps when people are willing to share their insights.
Balance. That's a new strategy of mine now. When price opens far away from value after a balanced day, chances are high that price will revisit that area to see if there's any more business to be done there. Case in point...today. Yesterday was a pretty balanced day. Heck, the last few have been balanced. On 3/7 there was a nice distribution, and yesterday price went on to seek out business in that
value area in the mid-day.
What Im currently watching is 60 minute
value areas on the 5min chart. I'm treating each 60 minutes as it's own daily profile, and each 5min bar as it's own 30 minute candle, if you will. Seeing candlestick reversal patterns when price is outside of it's previous 60 minute
value area (this is based on volume, not time) combined with the delta divergence has been signaling a nice drop of 10-20 points (sometimes more) over the past couple days. I still need to research this a little more on the back end, but so far it seems pretty neat. Plus, how cool would it be when someone asks about your strategy and all you say is...man, it's just about balance.