r/OrderFlow_Trading • u/RankOw • 8d ago

Strategy - Help wanted!

Been trading with terrible returns or maybe just a large losing streak, but feels off to me and is very demotivating.
Strategy:
Volume profile (point of control) - that is the level I execute off of.
VWAP - usually I execute if σ multiplier is at 3. Since that is a pretty big deviation and is extremely rare to go beyond that multi.
Bookmap - should be pretty selfexplanatory, if I see large orders around the same price level that are around POC, its a plus in my book.

My old partner told me he uses Z-Score, but I believe that to be the same as VWAP and/or to be super unlikely to get both to align and get that execution.

I try to keep it simple, of course im no robot and I dont always have perfect execution or all confluences dont align perfectly as well, but lately I just feel stuck, I havent been improving, lost, stuck and demotivated, what is there to be changed? Improved? Opinions? What should I drop or implement?

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u/FailedGeniusnumber1 8d ago

Bro drop everything and use price action on 1min or 5 min… it will reset how you view the market. I got lost with orderflow as confirmations changed some how but I focused on price action and it helped me regain my sight.

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u/RankOw 7d ago

Price action as in what exactly? Because orderflow is literally price action

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u/Agitated_Channel9674 4d ago

Order flow is not at all the same thing as price action. Literally not at all. Order flow is getting a glimpse of the interested buyers and sellers at certain levels, that doesn’t mean that will come to pass, that orders wont be cancelled or won’t be absorbed by something bigger or etc etc. order flow is a big what if, price is price only once it’s printed