Volume Point of Control (vPOC)

Volume Point of Control (vPOC) is the single price level with the highest traded volume inside a selected Volume Profile range; it marks where the market transacted the most and is often used as a reference for “fair value” and potential support/resistance.

A Volume Profile rearranges volume so you can see where trading happened (by price) instead of only when it happened (by time). The vPOC is simply the tallest part of that distribution, the price bin with the most volume.

• Choose your profile range (session, fixed range, visible range, or composite).
• Sum volume at each price level (or node).
• Whichever price level has the highest total becomes the vPOC.

Note: vPOC can shift if you change row size (or tick size) of the data resolution used to build the profile.

How traders use vPOC (what to look for on the chart)

• As a support/resistance reference based on prior heavy activity.
• As a rotation / “magnet” level during balanced conditions, where price may revisit the highest-participation zone.
• As a context marker alongside Value Area High/Low and HVN/LVN structure (thick zones slow price down; thin zones can move faster).

• Developing POC: shows how the vPOC moved while the session/range was still forming.
• Naked/extended POC: extends a prior nvPOC forward until price trades that level again.

• Treating vPOC as a prediction or “signal” instead of a historical reference.
• Ignoring that “volume” may be tick-based or otherwise non-comparable across instruments/feeds (especially outside centralized markets).
• Copying levels from someone else’s platform without matching the same session template, row size, and data resolution (different setups can produce different vPOCs).
• Using Volume Profile levels on chart types that distort price/volume mapping (e.g., certain synthetic bars).