hard · Volume Profile Analysis profile-anatomy
Forty minutes into a new session, the developing (live-updating) Volume Profile shows its POC at 3.9820, based on only the first 40 minutes of trade. A trader building an intraday plan treats this developing POC as though it were the day's final control and sets resting orders around it.
What is the strongest objection to relying on this 40-minute developing POC this early in the session?
- A developing POC can never change once it first forms this early, so if it is wrong the entire day profile stays permanently mislabeled all session
- With most of the session's volume still to print, the current node reflects only the opening rotation and can easily be overtaken by a later node
- Developing POCs are only meaningful once the value area has also fully developed, so citing a developing POC alone is simply a category error
- The 40-minute POC is unreliable specifically because Market Profile letters are only assigned in fixed 30-minute brackets, not partial 40-minute ones
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