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Lesson 6: 11.6: Composite Profiles
Master multi-day, multi-week volume aggregation to identify macro institutional levels.
1. What is a Composite Profile?
While a Session Profile focuses on a single day, a Composite Profile aggregates volume-at-price data across a broad, multi-day, monthly, or yearly timeframe.
This high-level view reveals the macro-structural landscape of an asset. It exposes the primary areas of long-term consolidation and major multi-year support/resistance nodes.
★ Institutional Anchor: Composite profiles smooth out short-term noise, showing you where the largest long-term investors are accumulation assets.
2. Analyzing Multi-Distribution Profiles
A composite profile often displays several distinct peaks and valleys, known as a multi-distribution profile:
• Double-Distribution: Features two primary HVNs separated by an LVN. Price will often spend weeks in one distribution before breaking through the LVN to range in the other.
• Balanced Profile: A single large, symmetric normal distribution showing long-term market agreement.
Click to enlargeInteractive Volume Profile Canvas
Volume profile plots the cumulative volume traded at specific price levels, revealing the Point of Control (POC - price of highest volume) and the Value Area (where 70% of transactions occur).
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KNOWLEDGE RECONNAISSANCE
What does a double-distribution Composite Profile suggest about market structure?
More lessons in this module
- 11.0: Introduction to Volume Profile
- 11.1: Building a Volume Profile
- 11.2: Point of Control (POC)
- 11.3: The Value Area (VAH & VAL)
- 11.4: High Volume Nodes (HVN)
- 11.5: Low Volume Nodes (LVN)
- 11.7: Volume Profile Strategies
- 11.8: Practical Application: Profile Playbook
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