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What is Deep Profile Swing?
A volume profile cut by day or by hour imposes a rhythm on the market that is not its own. A move does not start at midnight: it starts when it starts. Deep Profile Swing anchors the profile to the swing rather than the calendar, and gives you volume distribution inside the move itself.
What DeepCharts does better
The tool automatically plots the volume profile on the price swing, based on custom parameters you set. Four detection methods: Left Right Bar, which uses a predefined number of bars to mark swing points; Highest Lowest, which triggers on new highs or lows; Reversal Absolute, which requires a fixed price movement in the opposite direction; and Reversal Tick, which detects reversals in ticks. Minimum and maximum tick thresholds can frame VWAP-based swings.
Using it day to day
You choose the profile type displayed, total volume, ask/bid separately, delta, delta and total volume combined, or delta as a percentage of total volume, then the display mode: Profile And Lines for the full profile with key levels, or Lines Only if you just want the lines. The main settings are VBP Type, Length Type (Swing or VWAP), the include-reversal-bar toggle, the absolute reversal value and an optional swing stop criterion.
Typical case: a down leg breaks structure, then price bounces. The profile anchored to that leg shows you where volume actually concentrated during the decline: not across the whole day. The swing VWAP becomes a return reference, and high-volume areas inside the move become supply or demand candidates on the retest.
⚠ The trap to avoid
The trap is the detection method. Left Right Bar and Reversal Tick do not cut the same swings on the same chart: changing method changes every level you have. Pick one, keep it, and judge it over weeks. The second trap is leaving the threshold too low: you get a swing every three candles and an unreadable chart.
Combine it with
Deep Profile Swing gives you levels born from the move; order flow tells you whether they hold on the retest. It is the natural pairing with a structure read: the BOS tells you a move mattered, the swing profile tells you at which prices it mattered, and the footprint tells you whether the buyer is still there when price comes back.
FAQ
Which swing detection method should I choose?+
Four exist: Left Right Bar (number of bars), Highest Lowest (new high or low), Reversal Absolute (fixed price move in the opposite direction) and Reversal Tick (reversal measured in ticks). They do not produce the same swings: what matters is keeping one so your history stays comparable.
How is this different from a classic volume profile?+
The classic profile is cut by period, session, hour, day. Deep Profile Swing is cut by move: it redraws at every newly detected swing, which follows market structure rather than the clock.
What is Lines Only mode for?+
It displays only the profile's key levels, without the histogram. Useful when the chart already carries a footprint or a heatmap and you want to keep the references without cluttering the view.
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