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What is Naked POC (virgin POC)?

A point of control from an earlier session that price has not traded at since. "Naked POCs always get filled" is a popular claim, not proven.

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A naked POC (also called a virgin POC, often abbreviated nPOC) is the final POC of a past session that price has not traded at again since that session ended. "Naked" simply means "not yet revisited". The same idea applies to other levels:

From Chapter 6: Volume Profile II: Shapes, Yesterday's Map and Value Migration

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