Setup Stats: From the Profile

Profile Stats Q3 2025

Image 1. Power of profile

In this piece we’ll look at the performance of the profile in the last three months. The market plays out in themes, from multi-year bull market cycles down to the tenor of the weekly time frame. For the profile, I typically find that the trailing quarter stats are most effective for immediate reference, followed by the trailing six months.

Nuances - and therefor utility - smooth out past these timeframes.

The market has become increasingly mechanical in the past three months, coming to a head this past month. This means that certain profile references become extremely reactive. That allows us to take tight risk for high payouts. We’ll look at the parameters and stats below. But first an example

Image 2. Profile stat example

In my planning, I count prior gaps, NPOCs, VAHs, and VALs for up to 10 trading sessions forward before they lose relevance. The market has a memory, but even that gets fuzzy with time.

From the example above, just a small slice of the days in review, we already have three great plays using the profile alone. Let’s dive into the metrics, they are key to your success in trading.

Without stats, you are shooting in the dark!