Resources · Knowledge Base

Learn to read the auction

Pick your topic and level, and work up from Beginner. These are the concepts AlgoPloy is built on.

TopicAll topicsOrder FlowMarket ProfileVolume Profile
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Market ProfileBeginner

What is Market Profile (TPO)?

Time-Price-Opportunity letters and the bell-shaped auction.

Market ProfileBeginner

Value Area, POC, VAH & VAL

The 70% zone the market considers fair, and its edges.

Market ProfileIntermediate

Initial Balance & Opening Types

The first hour's range and what the open tells you.

Market ProfileIntermediate

Day Types & Profile Shapes

Trend, normal and neutral days; D, P and b shapes.

Market ProfileAdvanced

Single Prints, Poor Highs/Lows & One-Time Framing

Structural anomalies and one-time framing as a trend tell.

Order FlowBeginner

What is Order Flow?

Aggressors, bid vs ask, and why executed orders lead price.

Order FlowBeginner

Reading a Footprint Chart

Bid × ask at every price, and the candle's own point of control.

Order FlowIntermediate

Delta & Cumulative Delta (CVD)

Net aggression per bar, the running total, and divergences.

Order FlowIntermediate

Imbalances & Stacked Imbalances

Diagonal bid/ask ratios and what a stack of them means.

Order FlowAdvanced

Absorption, Exhaustion & Trapped Traders

When heavy aggression fails to move price — and who's stuck.

Volume ProfileBeginner

What is Volume Profile?

Volume plotted by price instead of time — and why it matters.

Volume ProfileBeginner

VPOC, Value Area, HVN & LVN

The fairest price, and the nodes price accepts or rejects.

Volume ProfileIntermediate

Profile Types: Session, Visible Range & Composite

Choosing the right lookback for the question you're asking.

Volume ProfileIntermediate

Naked POC & VPOC Shift

Untouched control prices that act like magnets.

Volume ProfileAdvanced

Value Migration & Trading HVN/LVN

How value moves day to day, and how price travels through gaps.