Top-Down Analysis & Entry

Everything in this method starts with one structure. For each period, AMP PRO measures how much volume traded and how much time price spent at every level, blends the two, and draws the band that contains roughly 68% of that activity — one standard deviation around fair price. That band is the Value Area — the same structure classic Market Profile texts describe as the 70% range.

Three prices define it: the VAH (Value Area High) on top, the VAL (Value Area Low) below, and the POC (Point of Control) — the single most-traded price — in between. The rules of value are the same two sentences at every scale:

• Inside value, the market is balanced. Price rotates: the edges get faded, the POC acts as the magnet in the middle. Buying the VAL and selling the VAH — the responsive trade — is the default until proven otherwise.
• Outside value with acceptance, the market is imbalanced. Once price holds beyond an edge (closes, not wicks), the edge flips roles: a broken VAH becomes support, and the trend/magnet rules from the passes below take over.

And the structure is fractal — the same Value Area exists at four sizes. Your chart timeframe picks which one AMP PRO builds:

The bigger the period, the stronger its levels and the longer the trade they frame. Here’s the largest one in action:

NVDA · Weekly chartYearly profile

• The year’s accepted range: VAH 211.56 down to VAL 128.56, with the Yearly POC at 182.37 — the single price where more of this year’s business was done than anywhere else. Price at 206 is inside value, near the top edge: balanced, but with far more room below than above.
• The red zone is the script tracking a Bearish Yearly 80% Rule: price traded above the yearly value and came back inside — statistically that re-entry favors a rotation across the whole area toward the VAL. On the yearly scale that’s not a day trade; it’s the macro headwind every smaller-timeframe long should know about.
• Below the VAL sit the deep magnets: an untested Yearly VPOC at 118.84 (Jan 2025) and an unfinished Yearly Poor Low at 47.32 (Jan 2024). Nobody plans a trade around a level 77% away — but knowing it exists tells you which direction has unfinished business.

You never change a single setting between passes — you only change the chart timeframe, and AMP PRO’s Auto mode swaps the profile period for you: Daily chart → Monthly profile, 1-hour chart → Weekly profile.

Start on the Daily chart. Auto builds monthly profiles, and one question decides everything downstream: where is price relative to last month’s value, and is an 80% Rule active?

META · Daily chartMonthly profile

• July traded below the monthly Value Area, then price re-entered it. That’s the 80% Rule setup — the script shades the projected rotation zone and states the target: Monthly VAH 657.16, about +11% above.
• The Monthly POC at 597.93 is the first checkpoint; the Monthly VAL at 581.69 is the line in the sand — bias stays long only while price holds above it.
• Beyond the target sits a Monthly Poor High (Unfinished) at 691.39 — the “if the rotation extends” magnet.

Drop to the 1-hour chart. Auto switches to weekly profiles. Write down the nearest three levels above and below price — value edges, VPOCs, Poor Highs/Lows. With Nearest Only display mode on, the script has already filtered them for you. Two different maps, same method:

COIN · 1h chartWeekly profile

• Price is under last week’s value, knocking on the Weekly VAL 150.24. Acceptance back inside arms a Bullish 80% Rule with POC 165.54 and VAH 169.69 as the rotation path.
• Rejection keeps the downside map active: a two-and-a-half-year-old Weekly Poor Low (Unfinished) at 137.13, Venom S1 134.94, and an untested VPOC at 132.51. Old unfinished business runs deep.
• As captured, the last candle is failing the test — closing back under the VAL. Until a 1h close holds inside value, the bears keep the map.

CRWD · 1h chartWeekly profile

• Price accepted above the weekly Value Area and walked the ladder: R1 188.68 → R2 195.39 → sitting at R3 202.24. Trend day behavior — each held rung reaches for the next.
• Overhead, an untested Weekly VPOC at 207.48 is stacked directly under a Weekly Poor High (Unfinished) at 208.22. Two magnets within half a dollar of each other make one high-conviction target zone.
• Invalidation is the ladder itself: losing R2 on a closing basis says the momentum leg is done.

Entries only happen at Pass-2 levels, and only in the Pass-1 direction. There are exactly three triggers worth taking:

Trigger A — ride to the magnet

NVDA · 1h chartWeekly profile

• The entry was the reclaim: price closed back above the Weekly VAH 198.61 and held Venom R1 200.46 — that’s acceptance above value, in the direction of the untested VPOC overhead.
• The target did its job: the Weekly VPOC 206.22 got tagged (the VPOC Tagged alert fires here) and the level greys out as repaired.
• Next magnets up the map: Weekly Poor High (Unfinished) 214.38 and the June VPOC 215.69 — the runner’s targets, if price keeps accepting higher.

Trigger B — the repair breakout

GOOG · 1h chartWeekly profile

• A closing break through a Poor High is acceptance, not exhaustion — the unfinished business is done and price is free to continue. That’s a breakout entry with the repair as confirmation.
• Notice the stair-step below: four earlier Poor Highs, every one now (Repaired), each repair kicking off the next leg. Serial repairs are the signature of a healthy trend.
• Next magnets from the map: the June VPOC at 386.51 under Venom R5 387.48 — another stacked target zone — and beyond it an unfinished Poor High near 404.

Trigger C — the one you don’t take

AVGO · 1h chartWeekly profile

• The upper wick spiked into the Poor High 398.96 and got sold; weeks earlier the lower wick did the same at the Poor Low 362.01. A touch alone flips the label to (Repairing) and softens the line — the script is telling you the test happened but wasn’t accepted.
• Price is back inside the middle of the range between both levels. No acceptance in either direction means no trigger — this chart is a watchlist entry, not a position.
• The patience pays either way: a closing break above 398.96 becomes Trigger B long; a rejection sequence at the level becomes a fade back toward value. Let the label state decide, not the wick.

Switching between the Daily and 1-hour chart works, but there’s a faster way to keep Pass 1 and Pass 2 in front of you at once: add AMP PRO to the chart twice. Leave the first instance’s Profile Timeframe on Auto, and set the second one to Auto (Higher TF) — it steps one period up. On a 1-hour chart that means the first instance draws the weekly map while the second overlays the monthly context.

QQQ · 1h chartWeekly + Monthly · two instances

• The top arrow sits inside the green zone: the monthly instance is tracking a Bullish Monthly 80% Rule, projecting a rotation toward the Monthly VAH at 730.79. That’s the Pass-1 bias, permanently visible while you work the 1-hour chart.
• The weekly instance supplies the path: price is climbing the weekly Venom ladder — R2 692.11 → R3 697.09 → R4 705.16 — and the bottom arrow marks last week’s locked Value Area (VAH 684.38 / POC 681.52 / VAL 669.45) projected forward as the support shelf underneath.
• En route to the monthly target, the weekly layer flags a stacked magnet: Weekly Poor High (Unfinished) 710.02 sitting right on top of the Weekly VPOC 709.04 — the obvious first scale-out before 730.

The mountain silhouette answers where volume traded. Three settings turn it into an x-ray that answers who traded it: set Histogram Style to Bars, Distribution Type to Up/Down, and turn on Enable Stacked Composite. Green rows are buying volume, magenta rows are selling.

NVDA · 1h chartBars · Up/Down · Stacked

• On the developing wing, the fattest green rows are printing right at current price around 206–208 — buyers building inventory at the top of the range rather than backing off. That’s initiative buying, not short-covering exhaustion.
• The composite’s heaviest shelf sits at 196–198, right where the Weekly POC (196.77) lives — multi-week agreement on fair price. Shelves like this are what the market defends on a pullback.
• Thin rows between the shelf and current price mark the single-print zone the breakout leg left behind — the market moved through quickly, so there’s little volume to slow a retest.

Then turn on Values (and Stacked Values for the developing wing) to print each row’s real numbers — true traded volume, buy × sell, never the blended hybrid the bars are shaped from:

NVDA · 1h chartValues · buy × sell per row

• Right at the Venom R3 magnet (206.83), the row prints 10.261M × 3.515M — buyers roughly three-to-one at the level the map said mattered. The x-ray confirms the trigger instead of guessing from the candle color.
• Rows printing a zero on one side (2.119M × 0) are one-sided trade — price moved through so fast that only one side got filled. A stack of them is the footprint of a vertical move, and the first retest usually fills them in.
• Read Values at your mapped levels, not everywhere: heavy selling absorbed at a support shelf while price holds = strength; heavy buying at a resistance magnet that can’t lift price = the fade signal.

Earnings releases look like chaos — a year of range covered in minutes. But the violence still resolves at levels that existed before the report, because the old magnets don’t move when the news hits. This is also the method at day-trading scale: a 5-minute chart, where Auto builds Daily profiles.

TXN · 5m chartDaily profile · earnings day

• Both boundaries were pre-drawn. All session, price rallied toward the untested Daily VPOC (16 Jul) at 299.9 overhead — the top arrow — and the report cut the trip short. Then the after-hours flush dove ~25 points and stopped almost exactly at the Daily VPOC (30 Apr) at 269.22 — the bottom arrow — before snapping back sixteen points. That level had been waiting three months for its tag.
• The middle arrow marks the morning’s work: the Daily Poor Low at 282.8 was repaired before lunch. After the spike, price came back and settled right on top of that repaired shelf, boxed between Venom S2 287.02 and S3 283.84 — even the post-earnings chop obeyed the map.
• Still open below: the Daily Poor Low (Unfinished) from 30 Apr at 266.34. The flush stopped three points short of it — that unfinished business survives the event and stays on the map for next time.