Volume Profile Alone? Add Delta and TPO (Real Gold Trade)
Volume profile only tells you where trading happened. Delta tells you who was pushing and TPO tells you how long price stayed at each level. On 4 November 2026 the $4,060-4,070 pocket had normal volume, very little time and mostly buying. Price came back to it, buyers held it twice at $4,066.0, and the move ran to the next high-volume node at $4,142.5.
Key points
Profile: 4 Nov 2026 session, point of control $4,050. The $4,060-4,070 rows had about median volume but only 4 and 2 half-hour TPO periods (16 at the POC).
Delta: at $4,060, 85% of the volume was buying; price crossed the pocket in 6 minutes. Delta is estimated from 1-minute candles (green = buying, red = selling), not exchange order-flow data.
Return: the 19:30 and 19:45 UTC 15-minute candles both bottomed at $4,066.0.
Trade: buy $4,068.8, stop $4,057.0, target $4,142.5 (next high-volume node of the 19 Oct-4 Nov profile), reached at 01:50 UTC on 5 Nov (+73.7 points, 6.25R).
Chart data: COMEX gold futures 1-minute and 30-minute OHLC and volume, Oct-Nov 2026, times in UTC. Education only, not a signal.
Read more: Volume Profile and Market Profile on Gold (XAUUSD): POC, Value Area and Setups · Volume profile · Order flow
Transcript
Volume profile alone? That's only one third of the picture. You need three things. Where, who, and how long.
Volume shows where trading happened. Fat bars are where the business was done.
Delta shows who was pushing. Green means buyers lifting the offer.
TPO shows time. Each block is thirty minutes at that price. Fat means accepted.
Now look at 4,060 to 4,070. Normal volume, but very little time. Price crossed it in six minutes. And eighty-five percent of that volume was buying. That's the level.
Price comes back to it. Buyers hold it twice. Buy 4,068.8. Stop under the level. Target, the next high volume node. Almost seventy-four points.
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