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One-timeframing
One-timeframing is a Volume & Order Flow concept. The Library holds 1 implementations, each one a working definition you can pull into Quant.
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What is One-timeframing?
One-timeframing is auction-theory shorthand, spread through the Market Profile work of Dalton and others, for a market that keeps attacking one side without ever violating the other. One-timeframing up means each successive period holds at or above the prior period's low while extending higher; one-timeframing down means each period holds at or below the prior period's high. The period is whatever bracket you audit: the 30-minute periods of a TPO profile within a day, days within a week, weeks within a month.
The read is control. While the sequence is intact, one side of the auction is running the market and conditions are directional rather than balanced (see balance vs imbalance); the first trade through the prior period's opposite extreme is the earliest mechanical hint that control is being contested.
How traders use it
- As a trend-day filter: while a session one-timeframes, profile traders lean with it and treat fades as low-quality until the sequence breaks.
- As a mechanical reference for risk: the prior period's extreme is the line in the sand, so stops and alerts sit just beyond it and a violation ends the pattern.
- As higher-timeframe context: daily or weekly one-timeframing frames which side is in control for swing decisions before drilling into intraday structure.
Related concepts · Market profile / auction theory
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Volume & Order Flow
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One-timeframing FAQ
What breaks one-timeframing?
A trade through the prior period's opposite extreme: in an up sequence, printing below the previous period's low; in a down sequence, printing above the previous period's high. By most definitions an equal low or high does not break the sequence, only an actual violation does, though conventions differ slightly between practitioners.
What timeframe is one-timeframing measured on?
Any consistent bracket. The classic intraday usage audits the 30-minute periods of a Market Profile session; swing traders apply the same rule to daily bars within a week or weekly bars within a month. Whatever the bracket, the definition is identical: successive periods refusing to violate the prior period's opposite extreme.
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