I swing trade primarily and find that volume is only good for day trading and for longer term trades it bares little to no influence. Some of the parabolic breakthroughs are when volume are very low before increasing, it's similar to the Bollinger Bands squeeze where you get it contracting and then suddenly expanding. The point of time when volume matter is the "now" and past volume doesn't really matter for future price movements.
I don't use volume indicator. Because my candlestick is volume-based (eg 500V, 1000V ... for ES) and not time-based (5 min, 15 min ....).
If you trade thin volume products, volume indicators are important. But for liquid products, volume indicators are only secondary or minor. They tell you the market momentum and pressure.
%% Good for you. I like it for any time fame + i would not even want the appearance of being lazy. , I'm not saying any turtle$ are lazy/LOL they do move @ a different pace/LOL
That is because you are only looking at volume once the move starts. Ever think volume matters ... coming into a reversal?