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How to Trade Futures Using Volume Price Analysis
Futures trading offers high liquidity and leverage. Contracts like /ES (S&P 500), /NQ (Nasdaq), or /CL (oil) move fast. Volume price analysis (VPA) provides the edge. It combines price action with trading volume. This reveals true market intent. High volume on moves shows conviction. Low volume warns of weakness or traps.
Core VPA Principles for Futures
VPA reads centralized volume data reliably in futures. Key signals:
Trend Confirmation: Rising prices with increasing volume = strong uptrend (buyers in control).
Reversals: New highs on low volume = divergence (distribution). High volume at lows halting decline = stopping volume (accumulation).
Breakouts: Price escaping range on high volume = valid momentum.
Traps: Spike on low volume often reverses—professionals fading retail.
Practical Steps to Trade Futures with VPA
Platform Setup: Use NinjaTrader (preferred for futures). Load Quantum indicators.
Identify Trend: Higher timeframe (daily/4-hour) for bias. Trend Monitor green = uptrend.
Spot Entries: Lower timeframe pullbacks. Enter on volume-confirmed moves (high...
Never, ever trade with an opinion. Trading with an opinion is one reason many traders struggle to succeed confident they are right and the market is wrong. Never trade against the market as the house always wins! Use volume price analysis which reveals the truth behind the price action.
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Learn how to ride the trend through congestion using multiple renko charts on NinjaTrader and the renko optimiser indicator.
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Trading using non time-based charts has many advantages, but one drawback which is this. How you do you know what to set for your tick or renko charts. More importantly, both of these settings are dependant on the instrument you are trading and also the time of the trading day. After all, markets speed up and slow down constantly. It's not a case of set and forget. And in this video, we explain how to do this using the Tickspeedometer and the Renko Optimizer for NinajTrader.
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In this session of the US day trading web class, we show you how to use the renko optimser indicator from Quantum Trading to trade forex. And when used in combination with the trend monitor and the trends indicator becomes an immensely powerful approach to trading any market.
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Blending Time and Non-Time-Based Charts: A Powerful Trading Approach
Trading charts come in two main types: time-based (e.g., 1-minute, daily) and non-time-based (tick, Renko). Each has strengths. Blending them creates a powerful approach. Time charts provide context. Non-time-based reveal pure momentum. This combination filters noise. It aligns bias with precise entries. Volume price analysis (VPA) confirms conviction across both.
Using a blend of time and non time based charts is a powerful approach to trading forex, and in this video I highlight the renko chart which builds a brick based chart devoid of time, and so reveals momentum which you never see on a time based chart. Yet using the time charts also gives you the insight using volume price analysis, hence the reason it is a powerful combination.
Time-Based Charts: The Big-Picture Foundation
Time charts add bars at fixed intervals. They show overall trend and structure:
Higher timeframes (daily/weekly) reveal primary direction.
Support/resistance, phases (accumulation/distribution) clear.
Ideal for bias—Quantum Trend Monitor aligns long-term...
Renko charts deliver for cable in the London forex session. Renko charts like tick charts are non time based and so reveal market momentum, speeding up and slowing down as the trading session unfolds, and this is a great example on the GBP/USD pair as London opens.
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In this video David explains how to scalp congested markets using the renko optimizer for NinjaTrader and across all three emini index futures in the US futures trading session.
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