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A condition where late day sellers close price at or near lows but valueThis value has nothing to do with valuation.  It denotes prices that are "fair".  Fair in this sense means a price that is common to a lot of participants.  An item that you buy once per week in a store at a price that doesn't fluctuate has a "fair price". You can express this by a formula Value = Price + Time or Value = Price + Volume Either of the above are valid ways of expressing value.  In the first equation, value is defined by price staying the same for a long period of time.  In the futures market, this would be an area that is revisted a lot during a particular session or multiple sessions.  The point of control is the price level where the most amount of time was spent during an RTH session.  James Dalton refers to this level as "the fairest price to do business". Using vo... More and the volume POCPoint of Control, also known as the "fairest price to do business". It is the price level in the /ES where the greatest amount of volume in the prior RTH session traded. ShadowTrader measures the POC using volume but the traditional way is to mark off the widest point of the day's distribution where the most TPO's printed going across from left to right, indicating that that was the price where the most time was spent. It's important to pay attention to both the volume POC and the TPO POC. remain much higher up in the RTHRegular Trading Hours. In the /ES this means the price action from 9:30am EST to 4:15pm EST only. distribution.