Also called market profile
Volume profile
A histogram of how much traded at each price over a window, drawn sideways on the chart. Its widest row is the point of control: the price the market spent the most time agreeing on.
Updated 2026-09-16
A volume profile turns the volume bars along the bottom of a chart sideways and asks a different question: not how much traded when, but how much traded where. Each row is a price band; its width is the volume that changed hands inside it over the window on screen.
The shape is the point. A fat middle is a range the market accepted, where buyers and sellers agreed for a while. Thin rows are prices the market rejected, moving through them fast. The widest row is the point of control. Price tends to revisit the fat parts and to travel quickly across the thin ones, which is a useful frame for where a limit order is likely to fill and where a stop is likely to get run.
See also
- Point of control — The price level with the most volume in a volume profile. Price tends to return to it and to move quickly through the thin rows either side of it.
- VWAP — The average price paid across a session, weighted by how much traded at each price. Institutions grade their fills against it, so it acts as the day's fair-value line.
- Mean reversion — The tendency of a stretched price to drift back toward its own average. Angie measures how often that actually happened for a name rather than assuming it will.
Educational content, not investment advice. Angie explains how a valuation is built so you can judge it yourself. What you do with that is your call.
