Volume Profile, Visible Range Volume Profile (VRVP), The Cloud

Learn a Volume Profile price action strategy using Visible Range Volume Profile (VRVP) and "The Cloud" to identify institutional liquidity and trade between hig

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Volume Analysis

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: both
  • Timeframes: Not specified (implied to be flexible based on 'relevant volume')
  • Markets: Not specified (general market application)

Indicators used

  • Visible Range Volume Profile (VRVP)
  • The Cloud

Source video

Decoded from: This makes Volume Profile trading STUPID easy by Tradewriter — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Intro
  • 1:38 - The VRVP
  • 4:15 - How to actually trade VP
  • 6:48 - Example
  • 5:40 - Look for high volume nodes
  • 6:25 - Trade from one high volume node to another
  • 6:58 - Use the cloud for bias

Strategy overview

Volume profile turns a chart's traded volume into a horizontal distribution across price, showing which levels the market did most of its business at. What distinguishes this entry is the qualifier in front of it: the *visible range* profile is computed only from the bars currently on screen, so the map redraws every time the window is scrolled or zoomed. Tradewriter's video, titled "This makes Volume Profile trading STUPID easy", takes that dependency as a feature rather than a caveat — the claim being made is about legibility, not about edge.

The route to that legibility is compression. Where volume profile can be taught as a full vocabulary — value areas, points of control, developing versus composite profiles — the chapter list here collapses it to two things: the thick parts of the distribution, and the gaps between them. A second overlay, "The Cloud", is carried alongside the profile in this record, named rather than defined, which fits a setup where the profile supplies the geography and something else supplies context on top of it.

The framing that follows from that compression is directional in an unusual sense: the chapters describe movement *from one high volume node to another*, which is destination language rather than trigger language — the profile marks where price is likely to be drawn, not the moment to act. The chapter markers themselves overlap and run out of sequence, with the worked example interleaved among the node chapters rather than closing them, so the demonstration and the reasoning are braided together. No formal rule set was extracted from this source, so this entry catalogs the concepts and the video's angle rather than a mechanical procedure.

Topics

volume profile · vrvp strategy · the cloud indicator · price action trading · trading strategy · high volume node · institutional liquidity · tradingview strategy · swing trading · pine script · market analysis strategy · volume profile price action strategy

Frequently asked questions

What is a Visible Range Volume Profile (VRVP)?

A VRVP plots how much volume traded at each price level, but only for the bars currently visible on the chart. Unlike a fixed-range or session profile, it recalculates as you scroll or zoom, so the profile you read is always a function of the window you have chosen.

What is a high volume node?

A high volume node is a price area where an unusually large share of the total volume changed hands — a level the market spent time accepting. The thin stretches between nodes are low volume areas, where price moved through quickly and left little transaction history behind.

What does trading 'from one high volume node to another' mean?

It treats the nodes as reference destinations rather than as entry signals: the thick zones act as areas where price tends to pause or attract, and the thin space between them as the ground price can cover quickly. It is a way of framing where a move might be heading, which is a separate question from when to take it.

Does this page include the video's full trading rules?

No formal rule set was extracted from this source, so this entry documents the concepts involved — visible range volume profile, high volume nodes, and the accompanying overlay — and the angle the video takes on them. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategy videos this way so you can see what a source actually covers before spending time on it.

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