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A futures market has balanced for two weeks inside a wide range. Price probes below the range low on heavy volume, fails to find new selling, and snaps back inside within an hour — a classic failed auction.
The most rigorous auction-theory reason this failed breakout often produces an unusually strong move toward the OPPOSITE extreme is:
- The probe proved the low-end price was rejected, so trapped new shorts plus unfilled responsive buyers fuel a move that auctions toward the untested opposite extreme to seek the location where business can be done
- Failed auctions always retrace exactly to the POC first, because the market is mechanically obligated to rebalance around its highest-volume price before trending
- Heavy volume on the probe guarantees a reversal, since high volume at an extreme is by itself definitive evidence of a longer-timeframe turn
- The snap-back simply restores balance, so the expected outcome is continued two-sided rotation rather than a directed move to the opposite extreme
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