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On a trend-up day the profile is forming a series of stacked, narrow single-print TPO tails to the upside, with the developing POC migrating higher each half-hour. A trader wants to add to a long on the next pullback.
Which entry tactic best exploits the structural information the profile is providing, rather than a generic momentum rule?
- Buy a retest of the most recent half-hour's single prints, treating the gap of low-acceptance TPOs as a one-time-framing shelf that should reject if the trend is intact
- Wait for price to retrace fully to the session's developing POC and buy there, since the POC is always the highest-probability mean-reversion magnet
- Buy a 50% Fibonacci retracement of the day's range, anchoring the add to the opening print and the current high
- Buy only after the next half-hour closes above the prior half-hour's high, confirming continuation before committing capital
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