Single Print (SP)

Single Print (SP) is a price level or narrow price zone in a TPO (Market Profile) profile where only one TPO letter/block is printed, showing that the market moved through that area quickly without spending additional time there.

A TPO profile shows how much time the market spent at each price. Most areas in a profile have multiple letters stacked at the same price because the market traded there more than once. A Single Print is different: only one time block touched that price level, which means the auction moved away too quickly to build acceptance there. Single Prints are typically treated as signs of imbalance or directional urgency rather than balanced two-sided trade.

Single Prints can be tracked across different profile periods. A Daily Single Print comes from a single trading session and is the most common reference for intraday traders. A Weekly Single Print comes from the completed weekly profile and usually carries more structural weight because it reflects imbalance across a larger auction. A Monthly Single Print is higher timeframe still and is generally treated as a broader market-structure reference rather than a short-term execution signal. The same concept can also be applied to other defined sessions, such as RTH, ETH, Asia, London, or New York profiles, as long as the trader stays consistent about which session template is being used.

• Choose your TPO profile window and block size (commonly 30-minute periods).
• Build the TPO profile by plotting each time block at the prices traded during that block.
• Look for price rows where only one TPO letter/block appears and no later block came back to trade that same row. If multiple adjacent rows each have only one print, they form a Single Print zone rather than just one isolated level.
• The same logic applies whether the profile is Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or another custom session. The difference is simply the profile window being measured. A Daily profile produces Daily Single Prints. A Weekly profile produces Weekly Single Prints. A Monthly profile produces Monthly Single Prints.

Note: Longer-period Single Prints often matter more structurally, but they are also less common and usually wider in context.

Single Prints are commonly used in three connected ways:

• As imbalance markers: they show where price moved too quickly to establish normal two-sided trade, often during strong initiative buying or selling.
• As support/resistance references: when price revisits a Single Print area later, traders watch whether it gets rejected quickly or begins to fill back in.
• As context tools: Single Prints help show whether a move was clean and directional or whether the market later came back to repair that imbalance.

• Daily Single Prints are commonly used for near-term intraday references and short-term repair or rejection behavior.
• Weekly Single Prints are often treated as stronger higher-timeframe imbalance zones and can act as important structure during the trading week.
• Monthly Single Prints are usually broader directional or structural references, often watched for major acceptance/rejection rather than small intraday reactions.

Note: Other custom session Single Prints can be useful, but only if the session definition remains consistent from one profile to the next.

• Highlighted Single Print zones: many TPO tools visually mark single-print rows so they stand out from the rest of the profile.
• Extended Single Prints: some platforms allow single-print zones to project forward as future reference levels until price trades back through them.
• Developing vs. completed profiles: Single Prints on an active session may disappear if later TPO blocks return to that area, so traders often focus more on completed-session Single Prints.
• Multiple profile periods: some tools allow traders to view Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or custom-session Single Prints at the same time, which helps separate short-term imbalance from higher-timeframe structure.

• Treating every Single Print as guaranteed support or resistance. A Single Print is a reference area, not a standalone signal.
• Confusing Single Prints with low volume. Single Prints are time-based TPO imbalances; they are not the same thing as low-volume nodes in Volume Profile.
• Using unfinished Single Prints from an active profile as if they are final. A later time block can remove the imbalance by trading back through that area.
• Ignoring session period. A Daily Single Print should not automatically be treated with the same weight as a Weekly or Monthly Single Print.
• Ignoring context. Single Prints are most useful when read alongside structure, value migration, POC, and whether price accepts or rejects the zone on retest.