Anchored VWAP Indicator: Your Guide to Volume-Weighted Price Analysis in TradingView
You know that feeling when a stock makes a huge move after earnings, and you wonder, "Okay, but what's the real price people have been paying since that announcement?" That's where Anchored VWAP comes in handy.
Regular VWAP resets every day at market open. Anchored VWAP? You pick the starting point—could be an earnings release, a breakout level, Monday morning, whatever matters to your trading. From that moment forward, it calculates the volume-weighted average price, basically showing you the "fair value" since that event happened.
Why do traders care? Because when price sits above your Anchored VWAP line, buyers have been winning since your anchor point. When it's below, sellers have had control. It's like having a reference line that says, "Here's what the crowd has actually paid on average since the thing you care about happened."






