Volume profile
Volume-based2 points to clickShows which price levels saw the most trading inside a chosen stretch, as horizontal bars.
What it looks like
The numbered dots are where you click. Once drawn, you can grab those dots and move them.
How to draw it
Set the start and end of the stretch and the bars stack up on the left. The longest bar is the most-traded level.
When to use it
Heavily traded levels are where price stalled often — whether one acts as support or resistance depends on which way price approaches it.
In SQMATE
What you draw stays
Lines you draw are saved to that symbol's notebook. Open the symbol again and they are still there.
Editable afterwards
Grab the points to move them, and change colour, width and line style. Undo works too.
Shares as drawn
Send the chart as a single link. Whoever opens it sees the same lines.
Related tools
- Anchored VWAPDraws the average price actually traded from a chosen bar to now.
- Anchored volume profileThe trading distribution from one anchor bar to now.
- R:RMeasures the distance to a target and to an invalidation level as a ratio.
- Position forecastTakes the shape of a past stretch and continues it forward.
- Bars patternCopies a run of past bars and overlays them somewhere else.
- Ghost feedFloats a past stretch of bars beside the current ones as a ghost.
Drawing tools are a way to organise your thinking. A line you draw does not decide what price will do.