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What is Value migration?

The movement of value areas from day to day: higher, lower, overlapping or unchanged.

In context

Price moves around all day. Value, the area where most trading actually happened, moves more slowly and more meaningfully. Value migration means comparing the position of one session's value area with the previous session's. James Dalton treats this comparison as one of the most important pieces of evidence about direction in Market Profile analysis: price can spike up and down, but the relocation of value shows where business was really being done.

From Chapter 6: Volume Profile II: Shapes, Yesterday's Map and Value Migration

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