The Playbook 02: naked POC returns, one real day
Price came back to two bar POCs it had left hours earlier. This video measures both returns the same way, so one is read against the other in numbers and not from memory.
The day in numbers
CL December 2026 (CLEZ26), 5-minute bars, regular session. Two bar POCs left on the way down were later revisited.
| Return A · 99.00 | Return B · 99.92 | |
|---|---|---|
| POC made by | 09:15 bar · 269 contracts at the price | 08:35 bar · 310 contracts at the price |
| Naked for | 29 bars | 51 bars |
| Touch | 11:40–11:55 CT · 4 bars | 12:50–12:55 CT · 2 bars |
| Volume per bar | about 1,054 | about 2,499 |
| Delta | −18 | +166 |
| Volume at the POC price: then → now | 269 → 659 | 310 → 422 |
| Ticks past the line | 29 | 22 |
| Big trades (25 or more) near the price | none | none |
At the close (13:30 CT), four bar POCs were still naked: 97.92, 98.84, 100.00 and 99.44.
These numbers describe what already happened. They are not a forecast, a probability or a trading signal. What the comparison means is the trader's call.
Chapters
- 0:00 Intro
- 0:42 What a bar POC is
- 1:21 What makes a POC naked
- 2:14 Memory versus measurement
- 2:48 The playbook
- 3:20 The real day: 22 October 2026
- 4:06 Return A · 99.00
- 4:36 Return B · 99.92
- 5:04 Side by side
- 5:48 Still naked at the close
- 6:22 What OrderVane does
- 7:07 What the numbers are, and are not
About this video
The narration is AI-generated (Google NotebookLM) from a source document we wrote; one misread sentence was removed. The chart data are the trades Quantower recorded for that day. The definition and the rule for when the line stops are on Naked POC. The previous episode is The Playbook 01: value area edges.
OrderVane Pro and OrderVane NT Pro draw each bar's POC, the naked POC extension and the box measurement on Quantower and NinjaTrader 8 charts.
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