Initiating Activity

A more one sided trade that takes place when the market pushes out and away from a current balanced area, into a new level where it establishes a new area of valueThis value has nothing to do with valuation.  It denotes prices that are "fair".  Fair in this sense means a price that is common to a lot of participants.  An item that you buy once per week in a store at a price that doesn't fluctuate has a "fair price". You can express this by a formula Value = Price + Time or Value = Price + Volume Either of the above are valid ways of expressing value.  In the first equation, value is defined by price staying the same for a long period of time.  In the futures market, this would be an area that is revisted a lot during a particular session or multiple sessions.  The point of control is the price level where the most amount of time was spent during an RTH session.  James Dalton refers to this level as "the fairest price to do business". Using vo.... Initiating activity is generally dominated by the other time frameA market profile term for those participants whose time frame and outlook is of a very long term, perhaps months or years. The theory is that it is these market players that are active when the market is experiencing initiating activity as opposes to responsive activity. See Initiating Activity, Responsive Activity. participants. When the market is experiencing initiating activity, you do not want to fadeWhen a stock moves opposite the direction of its gap on an intraday basis or go against the trend. You want to get aboard the train as early as possible and ride it to the next stop.
See Responsive ActivityTwo sided trade going back and forth between traders that have a short term outlook and are keeping prices contained within a range. For example, when a market trades to or even slightly above a defined range, if sellers become dominant and push the market back down lower, they are said to be “responding” to higher prices. This is the opposite of Initiating Activity. Responsive activity is usually defined by short time frame traders such as daytraders, or pit locals whose inventory has become imbalanced and needs to be corrected. See Initiating Activity., Other Time FrameA market profile term for those participants whose time frame and outlook is of a very long term, perhaps months or years. The theory is that it is these market players that are active when the market is experiencing initiating activity as opposes to responsive activity. See Initiating Activity, Responsive Activity..