ES VAH5847.25ES VAL5832.50ES POC5840.00ES IB H5849.75ES IB L5836.00ES IB RANGE13.75NQ VAH20485.25NQ VAL20410.75NQ POC20455.00NQ IB H20492.50NQ IB L20407.25NQ IB RANGE85.25PRIOR D POC5838.50OVN HIGH5851.00OVN LOW5829.25
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Reading the Point of Control (POC)

The single price level where the most volume traded in a session. Why the POC is the gravitational center of the day — and what a migrating POC means.

VIDEO · 11:48Reading the Point of Control (POC)EMBED YOUR VIDEO HERE

The Point of Control is the price with the highest traded volume in your chosen period. On a daily profile it is the day's center of gravity — the price the market most agreed was fair while the session was running.

A static POC means the market spent the day rotating around fair value. A migrating POC — one that drifts higher or lower as the session progresses — means fair value itself is shifting, and that's typically the higher-conviction read.

Yesterday's POC matters as much as today's. Markets remember where business got done. When price returns to a prior POC, expect either acceptance (rotation begins again) or sharp rejection (trend day in the opposite direction).

I can show you the geometry of POC migration on a chart, but the part that actually makes you money — how to size around it, when to fade it, when to chase — is inside the full course.