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| TPO Concept | ICT Equivalent | How They Correlate |
|---|---|---|
| POC (Point of Control) | Equilibrium / Dealing Range Midpoint | POC is the price where the most time was spent — ICT often talks about price rebalancing to a mean after liquidity is swept. POC acts as a magnet similar to ICT’s concept of a reversion to mean after displacement. |
| Poor Highs poor Lows | Buy-side / Sell-side Liquidity | PH/PL represent incomplete auctions. ICT uses buy/sell-side liquidity or array boundaries (e.g. daily/weekly highs/lows) where price seeks inefficiencies or liquidity. |
| Single Prints (Low TPO Acceptance Zones) | Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) | Single prints happen when price moves too fast to build value — like an FVG in ICT, a void that price often returns to fill. |
| Price Auction Between Value and Extremes | Draw on Liquidity / Displacement & Reversion | Both models see price as constantly rebalancing. TPO focuses more on value and VAL/VAH for the simplest reversions on the TPO. DOL focuses on just where prices has prior reactions and can be used as simple reversions |
| Excess | Rejection Wick | Excess in Market Profile refers to the extreme top or bottom of a profile where the auction ended — a sign that the market rejected those prices with little to no acceptance (i.e., few TPOs formed there). It shows up as a single row (or very few rows) at the high or low of a TPO profile. |
| LVN / Excess | Order block | A Low volume node (LVN) just below a TPO area where a move launched upward - often near the bottom excess. |
Both equilibrium and POC are in the exact same spot.
I personally think TPO is better because it actually has math and meaning behind its concepts, unlike PD Arrays. PD Arrays still work due to order flow, but with TPO, you're seeing the real data and how the market is truly behaving.
Most ICT strategies rely on PD Arrays and often combine them with tools like standard deviation (STDV) and SMT, which might actually be doing the heavy lifting. PD Arrays represent order flow in a way, but not all of them are reliable or effective. That’s why having a proper filter — like TPO, which shows actual market data and value — is so important.