A low volume node, or LVN, is a valley on the volume profile — a price level where very little trading took place. It marks an area the market rejected, passing through quickly because few participants wanted to transact there.
LVNs are the mirror image of high volume nodes. Where an HVN slows price, an LVN accelerates it: because there is little resting interest, price can travel through a low volume gap fast, with few counterparties to absorb the move.
Two ways traders use LVNs
First, as rejection edges: the boundary between an HVN and an adjacent LVN often acts as support or resistance, because it separates a zone of agreement from a zone of disinterest. Price stalling at that edge can offer an entry with a stop just inside the low volume gap.
Second, as fast-travel zones: once price enters an LVN with momentum, it can move quickly to the next high volume node. Some traders target the far side of a low volume area rather than fading inside it, since fading a thin zone offers little support.
- LVN = a volume valley, a price the market rejected.
- Price tends to move through low volume areas quickly.
- The edge between an HVN and LVN often acts as support or resistance.
- Consider targeting the next HVN across a low volume gap.
Low volume nodes are the market's no-man's-land — thin areas price rushes through, with the strongest reactions at their edges.