VWAP Trading Strategies

Learn two simple VWAP trading strategies. This guide provides straightforward approaches for using the Volume Weighted Average Price indicator in your analysis.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Technical Indicators

Part of: VWAP Strategies

  • Methodology: Technical Indicators
  • Content type: strategy

Indicators used

  • VWAP

Source video

Decoded from: 2 Stupid Simple VWAP Trading Strategies by The Rumers — watch the original

Strategy overview

VWAP — the volume-weighted average price — is the session's average transaction price weighted by volume, which is why so many traders treat it as the day's reference point for whether price is trading rich or cheap. What distinguishes this entry is its premise: the source video, "2 Stupid Simple VWAP Trading Strategies" from the channel The Rumers, is packaged as a pair of setups rather than a single system, and the whole pitch rests on how little apparatus each one needs. No second indicator, no confluence stack, no filter ladder — just the line and a decision about what price is doing relative to it.

That plurality is the interesting part. A single VWAP line supports two fundamentally opposed readings: it can be the mean that price is expected to return to, or it can be the boundary that separates a market in control from one that has lost it. Traders who package "two VWAP strategies" are usually working both sides of that split, which means the unspoken rule — the one that decides which of the two setups is live on a given day — matters more than either setup on its own. Simplicity of statement is not the same thing as simplicity of execution, and a two-setup framing quietly relocates the difficulty into the choice between them.

No rule set was extracted for this entry, and the source doesn't specify a timeframe or an anchoring choice in what was catalogued here — whether VWAP resets each session, runs from an anchor point, or is read on a daily basis is the decision that changes the meaning of every signal built on it. Treat this page as a pointer to the concept and to a deliberately stripped-down presentation of it, not as a rule sheet: the setups are simple enough to state in a sentence and still need to be defined and tested on your own market before they mean anything.

Topics

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Frequently asked questions

What is VWAP and why do traders use it?

VWAP (volume-weighted average price) is the average price traded over a period, weighted by the volume done at each price. Traders use it as a reference for whether current price is above or below where most of the session's business was actually transacted.

What are the two common ways VWAP is traded?

Broadly, as a mean or as a boundary. In the mean-reversion reading, price stretched away from VWAP is expected to come back to it; in the trend reading, price holding on one side of VWAP is treated as evidence of control, and losing the line is treated as a change of hands. Packages of "two VWAP strategies" typically work both of these readings.

Does a "stupid simple" VWAP strategy mean it's easy to trade?

Simple to describe is not the same as simple to execute. A one-line setup pushes the hard decisions elsewhere — which side of the line is in play, how far a stretch has to go before it counts, and where the invalidation sits. Those judgments are usually discretionary unless the trader defines them explicitly.

Are the exact rules for these two setups available here?

No rule set was extracted for this entry, so this page covers the VWAP concept and the framing of the source video rather than step-by-step conditions. Strategy Decoder extracts the structure of video strategies where the source makes it possible, and flags entries like this one where it doesn't.

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