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2006issue C101-4

A high-volume wide bar as an auction-intent check

Volume-price analysis judges a spike by range and close location before treating it as demand. The archive case then used a Stochastic oscillator only after that bar already pointed to selling into strength.

  • Volume-price analysis reads bar volume, high-low range, and close location together rather than treating a volume spike as a breakout.
  • A wide up bar that spikes in volume and closes mid-range or low is treated as selling into strength, especially after a gap in an uptrend.
  • A Stochastic oscillator crossover was offered as short confirmation only after that bar reading already pointed to professional selling.
  • The source cautions that a matching spike does not make a decline inevitable, and that a mid-range close after heavy participation can still mark unfinished distribution.
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Reading volume, range, and the close

Volume-price analysis reads each bar through three jointly observed variables: bar volume, the high-low range, and where the close sits inside that range.

The source distinguishes bar range from the bid-ask spread and allows the same method to be called volume range analysis when the high-low width is the object of study.

Selling into strength on the soybean chart

A volume spike on an up bar with a wide range and a mid-bar or low close, especially after a gap in an uptrend, is treated as selling into strength rather than unopposed demand.

A daily soybean chart is used to show that such up-bar volume spikes preceded subsequent down moves.

Soybean daily closes around the June 2006 volume spike

A spring advance in soybeans tops near 644 cents, and the 30 June USDA gap-up closes only mid-bar before the bid fades to 605.50 by late July. That path is the auction-intent check: the wide high-volume up bar did not finish as demand. Closes were read from the TradeGuider daily candlesticks, pinned to the printed session values 633 on 15 May, 622 on 13 July and 605.50 on 29 July, and to the article’s $5.90 level four bars before the report.
A spring advance in soybeans tops near 644 cents, and the 30 June USDA gap-up closes only mid-bar before the bid fades to 605.50 by late July. That path is the auction-intent check: the wide high-volume up bar did not finish as demand. Closes were read from the TradeGuider daily candlesticks, pinned to the printed session values 633 on 15 May, 622 on 13 July and 605.50 on 29 July, and to the article’s $5.90 level four bars before the report.Soybean futures · Daily · 2006-04-10T00:00:00.000Z to 2006-07-29T00:00:00.000Z

Intermediate closes are approximate to about two cents; the raster does not support quarter-cent ticks. The 30 June bar is the acreage-report session. Volume is visible on the source pane but is not recovered as a numeric series.

Confirmation after the bar reading

On an intraday example, a Stochastic oscillator crossover is presented as a short confirmation only after the volume-range close reading already showed professionals selling into the herd.

Volume-price analysis is offered as a confirmation overlay that can keep a trader out of news-driven entries that conflict with professional supply or demand already visible on the chart.

The same reading across scales

The same bar reading is applied from one-minute to monthly charts and across markets because the method treats professional supply and demand as scale-independent.

A rule of thumb in the source attributes most volume on a typical histogram bar, or of tick activity when true volume is unavailable, to larger professional size.

Educational research material, not investment advice. Historical source context does not establish present-day performance.
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All readings on this track · 12 readings
  1. 1988Constructing a value area from TPO, volume, and order flow
  2. 1988Constructing Value Area trends from half-hour auction profiles
  3. 1988Constructing auction structure with volume as a clock
  4. 1999Direct access routing and the visible book
  5. 1999A floor-to-screen case for the trading decision
  6. 2001Round-number clusters behind support and pattern signals
  7. 2001Displayed-size filters in multi-venue index-share execution
  8. 2006A high-volume wide bar as an auction-intent check
  9. 2007Market Profile as auction context for inventory imbalance
  10. 2008Decimalization, liquidity, and why price-only charts miss the tape
  11. 2013Liquidity pockets and order routing after the speed race
  12. 2015Bid-ask queues and the instant-adjustment critique
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