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You know when you see it, you’re going back too far. Honestly, you don’t need that much data. Usually the market you can get away with a daily a weekly Max two weeks volume profile depending on how big the market swung if the markets swing 1000 points to the downside, then yeah maybe you need to go back a little bit further and gather more information and label your high volume knows your low volume nodes your point of controls your zero prints and identify those slots and see where they correlate where they match up and then from there, enter the daily chart and just wait for price to tap into one of those level levels and then using book map or deep chart you can literally see where passive buyers or sellers are sitting at that liquidity you can look at the heat map and see literally if price is gonna trade into that level and does it react from that level to the upside or does it react to the downside it’s if this then that that is what trading order flow is it is not predicting the market again. I’ve said this 50 times but I’ll say it again just so you understand if this then that if price Reyes into a high volume note and gets rejected, then I am taking that motherfucker, all the way down to the equal loads and then pass that depending on if price still has momentum and it’s still hunting that liquidity down there zero print or a low volume note or a point of control or a weekly composite profile from a week ago RTH or ETH session that lines up those are magnets that’s what you should be looking for and you’re literally reacting to that range. Those are just magnets and if prices in the middle and it’s not trading towards any of those and there’s no trade, you see what I’m saying like it’s simply observing the market and reactive versus trying to predict that that’s all it is.

Personally, I look for where composite volume profiles correlate on the daily the weekly on the RTH and the ETH sessions and then I draw a box around that and then I validate that with us either being in a positive gamma or negative, gamma environment and then I just trade either the continuation or the reversal to set levels preferably the reversal. I am a short by a straighter. I would call myself a bear rarely do I go along most of my trades are probably 80% short 20% long in the long is just a quick bounce. It’s easier to read at least for me book map and deep charts footprints CVD’s, etc. when we’re in a down trending market I don’t know why but I love a down trending market. That’s where I make majority of my money I really don’t trade on days. We’re just ripping up. I hate those days. It’s hard to gauge where certain levels are even with options flow I just prefer us to retrace back down to a level that we’ve already been in especially where zero prints are a.k.a. big fair value gaps.

The 32nd chart and I use bookmap mostly to spot out areas of exhaustion of buyers to sellers or the inverse and I can see absorption of buyers to sellers or sellers to buyers and then from there I’m just targeting my areas that I drew on the composite profile a.k.a. volume profiles for the day the week, the RTH and ETH

Bookmap has a feature to show buyers and sellers, they call it "order flow".
Basic info:
https://youtube.com/shorts/lhMUthNSZRQ?is=qfpblTCu8eZd8g0e
Bookmap has a lot of free stuff and streams during RTH

Look into temporal time elements. There is optimal times
During the day to buy options. Usually early in trading session or at end of day on short dated expirations. The market makers make a moves within 30-60 minutes into RTH that is in the direction of the most immediate hedging flows. Go look at a bunch of contracts and look around 30-60 minutes into the trading day .