medium · Volume Profile Analysis trading-strategies

In a trending market, price retraces to a prior session's Point of Control (POC) and immediately prints a long lower wick on high volume.

How does Auction Market Theory classify this behavior?

  1. Initiative buying above prior value, signaling that the established trend is accelerating into a parabolic, late-stage phase.
  2. A failed auction at the POC implying the market must later probe lower to locate fresh, willing buyers.
  3. Responsive buying at a prior fair-value level, reinforcing the trend's structural integrity.
  4. Rejection of the trend as trapped longs at the POC are forced to liquidate into the next rally.

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