I've found volume profile much more helpful than TPO. James Dalton is the go to guy for TPO and FT71 I believe uses Volume profile. If you start thinking about buying Axia futures course you can get it a lot cheaper from
https://coursetobuy.net/. I bought the Axia courses and I found them mediocre at best.
I've bashed FT71 before, so I won't repeat it again here, but a thought crossed my mind about all of this trading help and courses.
It seems to me that whenever someone wants to sell you something, they usually start by showing you the result. With skin care, you clearly see the before and after pictures right up front. Same thing with fitness workouts. You get a taste of what's in the program, the type of exercises, and then pictures of body transformations, mostly fake maybe, but sometimes real. Even kitchen gadgets have to be sold with a live demonstration of how awesome this thing will be at saving you time in the kitchen with your chopping or dicing or cleaning, etc.
But for some reason, with trading, we are expected to do a full, in-depth study of some trading method with no reference to results. Obviously there are enough people claiming I can make $1000 per day right off the bat, but there is hardly ever a demonstration. Its never both together, like this is what I use, here is how I use it, and here are my results.
For once I would love to see a simple collection of 10 random trades, with charts showing the setup, the way it looked right at entry, and then the result, whether win or loss. Is it so hard to start a trading course like this? This way you could very quickly ascertain if your results match what you should be expecting.
So the conclusion always is that whatever you're going to learn will at best give you a 50% chance of making money, and its up to you to make it work, likely with other stuff you will have to piece together yourself.
No matter how juicy a high volume or low volume node looks, or how obvious that point of control is, sometimes its a magnet, sometimes it pushes price away, and sometimes price will slice through it like its not even there. And how did the person trade it? Good luck on seeing their trades... LOL
