Quote from enochbenjamin:
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so by my reckoning, you are using price tpo's through the globex 24 hr session???
i tend to use more of a volume histogram approach to the profiles where i use traded volume at price (rather than price overlap/tpo count - after all, tpo count was used as a proxy for volume before intraday volumes were reported) to define value and poc.
also, i start my profiles at the start of rth, followed by the globex session, so my profiles start with the cash open as opposed to the globex session (when globex re-opens after the close) followed by the rth.
im not suggesting these are better settings, just ones that seem to make more logical sense to me.
my thinking for example is that the prices traded over night are less significant, and volumes a lot less than those during rth. therefore, to let the overnight price overlap be an equal determinate on the poc calculation (ie use price rather than volume), then will the resulting poc really be an area where much trading occurred/a control price?
im not a big believer in back testing per se, but i say this as i wonder if you have ever looked into the different settings/ways of generating reference points such as poc's, and noticed any differences in results ?
cheers and good luck...