Supply & Demand Zones, Volume Profile, EMA Cloud Strategy
Trade ES futures on the 1-hour timeframe using institutional supply and demand zones identified with Volume Profile and confirmed by an EMA Cloud. This strategy
Published · Updated · Methodology: Mixed
Part of: Supply & Demand Zones
- Methodology: Mixed
- Content type: strategy
- Timeframes: 1 hour
- Markets: ES futures
Indicators used
- Session Volume Profile (SVP)
- Visible Range Volume Profile (VRVP)
- EMA Cloud
Source video
Decoded from: Giving away my $1k/day supply & demand trading course for FREE by Tradewriter — watch the original
Key timestamps:
- 0:00 - Why I stopped trading price action
- 13:05 - Finding institutional supply/demand zones
- 24:03 - The EMA cloud
- 37:35 - Master entries & exits
- 47:03 - The breakout
- 58:10 - The 4 rules that kept me profitable
Strategy overview
Supply and demand zones mark the price areas where a prior imbalance between buyers and sellers was large enough to move the market, on the premise that unfilled interest may still sit there when price returns. What distinguishes this entry is that the source is not a lesson about zones — it is a full-length course, and it spends its first stretch not on supply and demand at all but on why its creator abandoned price action trading altogether. The zone framework arrives as a replacement for something that was tried and dropped, which colors everything taught after it.
Read as a curriculum, the sequencing is the interesting part. The Tradewriter course moves from that opening renunciation into locating zones, then layers a trend read over them, then treats entries and exits as their own subject, then gives the breakout a separate chapter of its own rather than folding it into the base case — the implication being that a zone behaves differently when price runs through it than when it holds. The stack it assembles for this on the hourly chart pairs volume-profile context with an EMA cloud, so the zone is never asked to carry the decision alone.
The closing chapter is the one that says the most about the channel's own view of its edge: the course ends on four rules the creator credits with keeping him profitable, presented separately from the setup itself. That ordering — method first, discipline last but load-bearing — is a common shape in trading education, and it is worth noticing that the thing being credited is not the pattern. Honest notes: the $1k/day figure in the title is the channel's own unverified claim with no performance data behind it, the free-course framing is promotional, and no structured rules were extracted for this entry, so the video remains the source for the specifics of each chapter.
Topics
supply demand strategy · volume profile strategy · ema cloud strategy · trading strategy · pine script · es futures · 1 hour strategy · swing trading · tradingview strategy · institutional trading · price action · futures trading strategy
Frequently asked questions
What is a supply and demand zone in trading?
It is a price area where a sharp prior move suggests unfilled buying or selling interest remains, marked on the chart so that a later return to that area can be watched for a reaction. It is a location concept — it says where to pay attention, not when to act.
Why does this course start with 'why I stopped trading price action'?
Because it positions the supply and demand framework as a replacement rather than an addition. The opening chapter is a diagnosis of what the creator says did not work for him, which sets up the rest of the course as the remedy — useful context, since it tells you which problem the method is claimed to solve.
Is the $1k/day claim in the title verified?
No. It is a self-reported claim by the channel, used as the framing for a free course, and there is no verified performance data behind it. Treat the title as marketing and judge the content on its own terms.
Does this page contain the course's entry, exit and breakout rules?
No structured rules were extracted for this entry, so the specifics of each chapter — including the four rules the course closes on — remain in the source video. Strategy Decoder extracts the structure of strategies from video sources where the rules can be pinned down, so you can evaluate and test them on TradingView.
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