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VWAP for Beginners
A Practical Guide to Trading with Volume Weighted Average Price
Every trading platform draws VWAP automatically. Most traders look at it every day without knowing what it measures.
The line is already on your chart. Learn to read it.
Volume Weighted Average Price is the benchmark large institutions trade around all session long. This book builds it from the ground up in plain English: what it measures, why the biggest players pay such close attention to it, and how price above or below the line tells you who is in control of the day.
From there it gets practical. Four setups, the Bounce, the Reclaim, the Breakout, and the Fade, each come with specific entry, stop, and target rules. The standard-deviation bands show when price is stretched and when it is trending, and Anchored VWAP carries the tool beyond the single session into swing and position trading.
Like every book in the series, it includes a full chapter on when VWAP fails, and it finishes with a written trading plan built around risk management.
Inside the book
- What VWAP measures, and why large players watch it
- Reading price against the line to see who controls the session
- Four setups with entry, stop, and target rules: the Bounce, the Reclaim, the Breakout, and the Fade
- Using the standard-deviation bands to spot stretched and trending markets
- Anchored VWAP for swing and position trading
- When VWAP fails, and how to protect your capital when it does
- A complete written trading plan with risk management at its core
Look inside
A few pages from the paperback. Select a page to see it full size.
- The contents
- The opening of Chapter 1
- The VWAP standard-deviation bands
- The Bounce and the Reclaim setups
Who it's for
Traders new to technical analysis, and experienced traders finally ready to understand the line they've been looking at for years.
