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World 4 · Indicators · lesson 12 · level 3
VWAP: the day's fair price
VWAP is the average price everyone paid today, weighted by how much they traded.
What it is
Price spent hours below the day's average price, then closed back above it.
Your task in the app
Where is today's VWAP? Buy, sell, or wait?
How often it worked
| Market | Times found | Target first | Stop first | Went nowhere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crypto | 3,302 | 36% | 56% | 8% |
| Commodities | 67 | 34% | 49% | 16% |
Counted on real past charts by the Trading Class research engine, 3,369 cases in all. Past odds, not a forecast.
Read more on the VWAP reclaim pattern page.
Goal of this lesson: Read VWAP as the session's volume-weighted average price and use it as an intraday reference.