Ronan Ash retweeted
When you sit down in front of your charts, can you find a trade within a few minutes?
Most can't, because their framework is limiting.
Limiting, because it requires a very specific chain of events: specific time of day specific patterns, etc.
Some people can't trade "choppy" sideways markets.
No matter what your reasoning is, your framework is limiting and you probably don't even realize it.
When I sit, I identify the current trend the market is in, the current trend the market is retracing, and both of their levels of significance.
I identify if momentum is slowing into those levels.
I identify if the market has removed liquidity at those levels or not.
I decide where the market must hold and /or test to maintain structure of the current trend.
I identify where trend becomes logically satisfied.
I do all of this across many time frames, rather quickly.
Most of it has become intuitive now.
I don't need to spend 30 minutes analyzing the lower timeframes once I understand what the higher time frames are trying to accomplish.
It's a puzzle.
I form logical expectations. Many times they perform as expected.
When they do not, I don't just stop out in a losing trade and come back the next day.
My expectations failing, also provide me with a new logical postulate.
If this, then this.
Nope.
Ok, if not this, then this.
What it looks like:
Gained support to the lows. Expect to progress to trends start down and new swing highs, because the highs are tested.
Market moves to the trend start down.
Fails to gain, no new high.
Oops, I was only partially right.
Adjust.
If failure to gain, then new swing low is the expectation.
Any higher time frame level impeding this progression?
Yes, potentially.
Ok, watch the progression into it, adjust expectations accordingly.
This happens in my mind rather quickly.
Many of you have no understanding yet.
Keep at it.
Ronan Ash retweeted
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Ronan Ash retweeted
“In a crash, Market Makers stop being passive. If they buy your spot bags, they aren't going to sit on that risk, they’re going to immediately slam the perp market to hedge. Under normal conditions, if an MM buys your sell order, they simply raise their asking and price skewing the spread to entice a buyer and get back to flat.
This creates a phantom rise in OI. It looks like aggressive shorts are piling in, but it’s actually just MMs staying delta-neutral.”
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Ronan Ash retweeted
#PriceAction
The Standard Setup
Simple setup that you can easily use in any market. Takes the emphasis of using Ranges, Supply/Demand alongside what a three tap is
Small write up to cover:
- How to format ranges
- Demand/Supply
- Three tap importance
Lets get into it
Ronan Ash retweeted
Range Trading + Auction Market Theory + Passive & Aggressive Flow in Visual Thread format.
Should I bring back more of this in article form?
(since nothing else seems to get read anymore, courtesy Twitter)
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Ronan Ash retweeted
Spot vs. Perp CVD
Spot flow is often considered “cleaner” because it represents unleveraged demand, while perp driven moves are frequently dismissed as fake or trap due to leverage and funding dynamics.
Although this statement is mostly accurate, it requires an important distinction.
Whose effort is being rewarded by price?
> If perp buyers are aggressive, yet price fails to advance or stalls, that indicates, The market is absorbing perp demand = weak move.
> If spot flow is neutral or flat, perps continue to buy, and price still grinding higher, then the effort is being rewarded. Supply is insufficient to stop the move, regardless of the source of demand.
In that scenario, labeling the move as “bearish” or “fake” simply because it’s perp-driven is incorrect.
The market doesn’t care where demand comes from only whether it gets rewarded.
CVD Divergences Cheat Sheet
CVD (Cumulative Volume Delta) represents the net difference between market buy and market sell orders slamming into the order book. In simple terms, it tracks the aggressive market orders interacting with passive limit orders, rather than just following price movement.
This makes CVD a powerful tool to assess the effort behind price action, showing which side is truly in control.
Key dynamics like absorption (when large market orders are absorbed without price movement) or exhaustion (when aggressive flows fail to move price further), can be identified by comparing the CVD with actual price movement, to evaluate effort vs reward.
Ronan Ash retweeted
I just released a new study for footprint users: Stacked Imbalances.
It’s not ground-breaking, just solid and useful.
I normally keep study education private for users, but I’ll share this one openly today.
Enjoy and hope you learn something new. Cheers.
Ronan Ash retweeted
Most traders watch price. Some watch volume. Almost nobody studies the relationship between time and volume.
When those two fall out of alignment (Volume POC sitting outside the Time Value Area), the market leaves structural imbalances —
prime spots for algorithmic mean-reversion.
This isn’t something you’ll find in Market Profile books or trading courses.
It’s a technique from my own playbook — refined over thousands of hours of profiling.
I don’t reveal all my tricks, but here’s one I use every single day in my analysis:
Time/Volume Imbalance → Mean Reversion Setup.
Use it wisely.
Ronan Ash retweeted
99% of traders do not understand the purpose of the trends in red.
Blue X's are tests of levels, designed to clear liquidity from the books at said levels.
This is trend progression 101.
Markets fail on 1st test, and continue on 2nd test.
New highs and lows are created as a result of market progression, which in turn, satisfies trend.
