VOLUME PROFILE TRADING: POC, VAH, VAL & Beyond: A Practical Visual Guide to Auction Structure, Acceptance, Rejection, and Risk

Faramarz Kowsari moves beyond treating Volume Profile as a collection of colorful horizontal bars or magical support and resistance levels. The book explains Volume Profile through auction-market logic: where the market accepts price, where it rejects price, where business concentrates, where participation becomes thin, and how value migrates as market conditions change.

Readers learn the practical meaning of Point of Control (POC), Value Area, Value Area High (VAH), Value Area Low (VAL), High-Volume Nodes (HVNs), Low-Volume Nodes (LVNs), thin zones, volume gaps, profile shapes, balance, imbalance, acceptance, rejection, and value migration.

The book explores session profiles, anchored and event-based profiles, composite profiles, opening location, trading inside and outside value, value-area re-entry setups, LVN rejection and breakthrough, and advanced concepts such as developing POC, naked POCs, multiple distributions, multi-timeframe analysis, trend days, and range days.

Volume Profile is also integrated with market structure, VWAP, liquidity, Fair Value Gaps, support and resistance, entry models, stop placement, position sizing, and risk management.

Rather than asking readers to memorize setups, the book develops a repeatable decision process: define the auction, read the distribution, observe current behavior, formulate a hypothesis, identify what would invalidate it, and control the risk of being wrong.

Real-market case studies examine rotation inside value, rejection and acceptance above VAH, failed breakdowns below VAL, LVN reactions, POC migration, double distributions, liquidity sweeps, and even technically valid setups that lose.

The practical workbook includes profile-reading exercises, trade-or-no-trade exercises, reconstruction exercises, checklists, journal templates, risk formulas, and full-page visual summaries.

Designed for day traders, futures traders, stock traders, crypto traders, forex traders, price-action traders, and anyone who wants to understand market participation through the geography of volume.