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S… Speaker 2 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

The ViewApp and AnchorViewApp are multifaceted tools. There are many elements to pay attention to, and unsurprisingly, those who take the time to study their intricacies can harvest the benefits. Before we move on to the actionable stuff, you need to acknowledge that there are two sides to the ViewApp. The book smarts and the street smarts side to it.

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S… Speaker 2 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

The street smart side comes from the fact that institutions use these tools as a benchmark of execution for their traits. The book smart side comes from the fact that the anchored view-up is a genuine fractal tool. A fractal tool mixes geometric and numerical calculations. The anchored view-up lines are calculated numerically, but the initial point of calculation is determined geometrically in the chart, using various methods we are about to see.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

Most technical indicators don't have both qualities simultaneously. They are either geometric or numerical. For example, trend lines are purely geometric and Bollinger Bands are purely numerical. The anchored view-up lets you choose the starting point of the calculation in the chart, and once you do, it will calculate the main view-up line, which stands for volume-weighted average price. In other words, the view-up calculates the average price weighted by volume from a specific point in the chart.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

The anchored VWAP indicator also has what are called sigma bands, which are standard deviation bands similar to what we see in the Bollinger Bands indicator. In this chart we have a clear example of this. The center black line is the main VWAP line using the highest high in the chart as the initial point of calculation. Then there are two sets of red lines, which are the sigma lines. The inner ones are two sigma lines, meaning two standard deviations away from the VWAP.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

and the outer ones are three sigma lines, meaning three standard deviations away from the VWAP. They are called sigma bands because the symbol for standard deviation is the Greek letter sigma. The VWAP line can of course act as support and resistance, and the sigma lines can act as dynamic zones of reversal. But there is way more to it than that. In this example, we can already see how the VWAP line worked well as a strong resistance.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

The Sigma lines also represented good levels to determine where prices overextended. This can be useful for taking profit, for example. Before learning the different ways of choosing the initial point of calculation, let's explore the properties of the VWAP more carefully. The VWAP angle. As is the case with any type of dynamic support and resistance line, it's important to pay attention to the angle of the VWAP line.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

Steeper angles will provide stronger levels of support and resistance, and that can be critical in scenarios where the trader is trying to determine the end of a pullback, for example. In this chart you can see an example of this. The VWAP tends to work better as resistance when it has a steeper angle, keeping in mind that the VWAP doesn't get too steep, so this difference in angle is subtle.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

In the red rectangles, we see the view up with a steeper angle, and that ended up working well as a dynamic level of resistance. Even with that, the two initial rectangles show false breakouts, which we'll talk about later. The third one worked incredibly well. Notice how the upper shadows of those candlesticks respect the view up line in an obvious way.

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In the yellow rectangle, we can see how the VWAP becomes flat, and this gives it a quality similar to the dynamic VPOC in the volume profile, working as an axis of rotation instead of support and resistance. This changing quality, of course, can make things trickier, but we'll study ways of counteracting this problem. The space between 2 and 3 sigma. This is usually recognized as overbought and oversold dynamic levels around the VWAP.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

and they work especially well when the main VWAP line has a flat angle, alluding to a sideways market. In this image, we can see an example of that. The space between two and three sigma lines works well as dynamic zones of reversal. We can also see a couple of instances where the VWAP line worked well as resistance. Three sigma spike as rejection levels. It's very common for price to reverse sharply once it surpasses the three sigma level, even when it's trending.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

That can serve the purpose of getting out of a trade at an extreme, for example. Keep in mind that if it is a strong trend, price will reverse once it surpasses the three sigma level, but it can be a very brief reversal. In this chart, we can see how price reverses sharply once it goes outside the boundaries outlined by the three sigma line in the downside. View up ends from opposing extremes.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

Another way of creating bands in the chart is by combining two main view-up lines starting from opposite market extremes. For example, you can ground a view-up on a high and another view-up on a low. These extremes are usually adjacent to each other. For example, in this chart, you can see the red view-up grounded on a low and a green view-up grounded on a high. Combined, they form a band that is later used as a dynamic supply zone as it is highlighted in the yellow rectangle.

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In this other chart, we can see this same rationale, but we update the view-up lines to the next adjacent extremes, and we see the dynamic supply zones catching two important subsequent highs. In certain cases, the two view-ups will converge to one single line, and that yields a stronger level like we can see here. The two view-ups grounded in different places end up converging and forming a stronger form of dynamic support or resistance. Converging view-up lines.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

It's often the case that reliable VWAPs will converge with other VWAPs. In this chart you can see that the upper shadows of this bearish candle cut through seven different VWAPs simultaneously. All of them were placed on obvious highs and lows in the chart. Here we have another example of that. Five VWAPs working together as a form of dynamic demand zone. VWAP amplification and attenuation.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

In the candles right after the anchor, the view-up and bands are extremely sensitive to price since there is not much data for the calculation and the arrival of new data greatly impacts the calculation. As price moves away from the view-up, the signal suffers from attenuation and price becomes less reactive to the view-up bands. That means that in price action too far from the view-up, the trade signals can also become unreliable.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

In other words, as price moves away from the anchor point, it tends to become less reactive to the view uplines, just like what happens with the dynamic lines of the volume profile. That happens because the indicator is calculated cumulatively, and as more information enters the calculation, the less impact it has on the overall result. False breakout.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

We have the expectation that VWAP and Sigma lines will work as accurate dynamic support and resistance levels, but trading is never that easy. There is such a thing as a false breakout with VWAP lines too, and there is a logical explanation for it. The VWAP line represents the benchmark of execution, meaning that executing trades at the VWAP is fair.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

However, executing long trades just below the VWAP or short trades just above the VWAP line is advantageous for the institutional traders in this paradigm. For example, in this chart we see a false breakout to the downside occur at the main VWAP line. This happens because institutional traders looking to get long decided that when price was just below the VWAP, they had an advantage in terms of price.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

The result is that price deceptively breaks the view up to the downside and then comes back, treating it again as support. The key to trading something like this is observing how price reacts to the view up line before assuming it will respect it. Generally speaking, when price deceptively breaks the view up and comes back, there is a good trade to be taken. In this chart we can see three good opportunities to get long after the view up got deceptively broken to the downside.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

In fact, the location of the false breakout is a good place to anchor a new view-up line, as we can see in this other chart. That will use a different and complementary perspective for the framing of high quality trades after the false breakout event. Ways to set the view-up and the anchored view-up. When learning how to anchor the view-up, we must make an important distinction. There is the view-up indicator and the anchored view-up.

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S… Speaker 2 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

On TradingView, you can search for the VWAP indicator in the same way that you would search for any other indicator. If you open the settings, you'll see that there are different ways of anchoring the VWAP indicator based on trading session, various timeframes, earnings, dividends, and splits, these last three settings being specific to stocks. Anchoring the VWAP indicator on the start of a session is a common practice among day traders.

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S… Speaker 2 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

Here we have an example of a 5-minute chart with the view-up indicator anchored automatically on sessions. This provides objective levels for day traders without the subjective component of anchoring the view-up in different price extremes. Notice how the view-up resets with each new session. Many view-up day traders do this, so there will be a self-fulfilling prophecy effect associated with this type of anchoring. In this chart we have the

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

Nvidia stock in the one hour time frame and the VWAP indicator plotted for earnings. This will reset the VWAP every time Nvidia announces its earnings. There are some very interesting opportunities highlighted by the yellow boxes. Once again, the validity of each one has to be assessed by looking at other elements of order flow and price action analysis in combination. Here we have the same stock in time frame, but now the VWAP is set for dividends instead of earnings.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

That provides a different perspective that may complement these other objective anchoring approaches we've been studying. For example, in this chart, we have two sets of view-up indicators. The one in red is plotted on dividends and the one in black is plotted on earnings. In the yellow boxes, you can see two examples of these two distinct view-up indicators converging. In both examples, price is reacting to sigma lines from different view-up indicators simultaneously.

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S… Speaker 2 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

That is a very simple example of integration. Another way of anchoring the view up is at splits. A split refers to when a company divides its existing shares into multiple new shares. That changes the share count, but keeps the company's market capitalization the same. Splits are often made to make the stock more affordable or attractive to a broader range of investors or traders.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

In any case, it's considered to be an important event, and it can also be used to anchor the view up indicator. There are many different ways of anchoring the view up, and this goes back to what was said earlier about the fact that well-informed traders look at different things in different time horizons. Let's go through the ways of plotting the anchored view up, recalling that the anchored view up is a drawing tool found in the box called Forecasting and Measurement Tools on the left panel of TradingView.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

One way of anchoring the anchored view app is on important news announcements such as the non-farm payroll, which happens at the first Friday of every month. In this chart you can see the anchored view app plotted on the candle representing the non-farm payroll. We can immediately see how price action interacts with the boundaries of the anchored view app successfully in yellow, and we also see a false breakout in red.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

We can also see price reversing back to the upside every time it pierces the Three Sigma line. Since there are many news announcements, it's best to consider this possibility only for the very high impact ones, the non-farm payroll being the most violent of them all. One common way of anchoring the VWAP is to use prominent market extremes. This is where the anchoring of the VWAP becomes subjective, which has advantages and disadvantages.

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This allows you to see more opportunities, but you can make the analysis more confusing. There are no solutions to this, only a trade-off. The increase in opportunity comes at the expense of the analysis being more subjective. For example, here we have the anchored view up plotted on a prominent high. In the blue rectangle, we see price rotation around a flat view upline.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

In yellow, we see good instances of supply and demand zones from the space between 2 and 3 Sigma lights, highlighting a 3 Sigma spike in the downside, and in green, we see a slightly angled view-up working well as support. By plotting the view-up on another prominent market extreme, we can see how the opportunity laid out in the green rectangle remains the same. Another simple example of integration.

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S… Speaker 1 (9 - Advanced VWAP & AVWAP _ Fractal Flow Pro - Chrome 2026-04-25 17-37-37)

Clearly, you can go overboard with this and plot too many anchored VWAP lines to the point where it becomes impossible to think, and you reach analysis paralysis, so it's best to keep the grounding of the VWAP to the most important extremes only. There is also the possibility of plotting anchored VWAP lines on gaps and volume spikes, but these alternatives don't yield the best results despite being valid. The confusion they add to the analysis is not worth the benefit.

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