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A trader compares a TPO profile and a volume profile built from the exact same session. The TPO profile's POC (most time) prints at 4480, but the volume POC (most contracts) prints at 4467. The 13-point gap is unusually wide.
Holding the data identical, which session characteristic most directly produces a TPO POC meaningfully above the volume POC?
- Price spent many TPO periods slowly rotating near 4480 on thin volume, while a brief, high-velocity burst transacted enormous size near 4467 in just a few periods
- Price spent many TPO periods near 4480 and that same area also carried the heaviest contract volume, with the gap caused only by rounding to the nearest tick
- The volume POC is always below the TPO POC by construction, because volume accumulates from the session low upward while TPO accumulates from the high downward
- A wide TPO-versus-volume POC gap proves the data feeds were mismatched, since on identical data the two POCs must coincide at the same price
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