Clusters Volume Profile
By LuxAlgoFeb 6, 2026
Clusters Volume Profile segments price history into distinct regimes with K-Means clustering, then builds a separate volume profile for each. Grouping bars by price proximity instead of chronology exposes where liquidity truly concentrated: every cluster gets its own color, histogram, and point of control, reference levels a single time-sliced profile can blur together.
How to Trade the Clusters Volume Profile?
- Cluster POCs: each regime's highest-volume price acts as a fair-value reference that often turns into support or resistance on revisits: entry candidates, with targets at the next cluster's POC.
- Overlapping high-volume clusters: accumulation or distribution behavior; expect range conditions until the overlap resolves.
- Separated clusters with volume gaps: a trending environment; a fresh, isolated cluster after overlap can mark a breakout taking hold.
- Per-cluster volume totals: compare participation between regimes; a move into a high-volume cluster carries more conviction than a drift into a thin one.
Under the hood, centroids seed across the lookback's range, bars join their nearest centroid by median price, and centroids re-center on their members' volume-weighted average over several iterations. Stops sit naturally outside a cluster's full profile range.
Clusters Volume Profile Settings
- Lookback Period: historical bars included in the clustering analysis.
- Number of Clusters: distinct price regimes to identify, from 2 to 10.
- K-Means Iterations: refinement cycles; more passes stabilize centers.
- Rows per Cluster VP: vertical resolution of each cluster's profile.
- Max VP Width (Bars) / VP Offset: histogram width cap and spacing from the current bar.
- Highlight Price Dots / Dot Size: show per-bar cluster assignments and size the dots.
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