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Two separate sessions each print a single-print tail at the day's high, but only one is later respected as genuine 'excess' in the following week's composite profile; the other gets fully backfilled into an HVN within two sessions.
Which distinction best explains why one single-print tail holds as excess while the other gets absorbed?
- The tail that holds always occurs on a higher absolute volume day, since total session volume alone determines whether a tail is respected.
- The tail that holds saw no subsequent trade return to that price, unlike the absorbed tail, where business later returned there.
- Both tails are equally valid excess by definition; whether they later get backfilled is random and carries no analytical meaning.
- The tail that holds was created earlier intraday, while the absorbed tail formed only on the session's final closing print.
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