Value area — Trading Glossary

The price range around the point of control that holds 70% of a period's volume. Its edges are the value area high (VAH) and value area low (VAL).

Price inside the value area is price the market has accepted; outside it, the market has not agreed on value yet. Many volume-profile methods only trade once price has left the value area.

Also called: value area high, value area low, VAH, VAL.

Taught in

Volume Profile: POC and Value AreaStrategy Playbook

Where the volume actually traded — the point of control, the 70% value area, and the rules from the VP Strategy Reel.

Also covered in that lesson

Volume profileA histogram of how much volume traded at each price over a period, drawn sideways on the chart — where business was done, rather than when.Point of control (POC)The single price in a volume profile where the most volume traded.

Related terms

Point of control (POC)Volume profile