Rotation Factor

Rotation Factor keeps Market Profile's period-by-period auction score automatically: each finished 30-minute TPO bracket scores against its predecessor — +1 per higher extreme, -1 per lower, 0 for unchanged — and the running total plots as a stepline resetting each session. The definitive build of the rotation factor judges the count against the session's own possible range — ±2 per scored bracket — with strong-rotation levels as a share of that range rather than a fixed number.

How to Trade the Rotation Factor?

• One-sided counts: a total holding beyond the strong-rotation levels says one side keeps winning the auctions — an argument for trend-day tactics.
• Balance: totals inside the balance band read as a two-sided auction, favoring responsive trades around the edges.
• Effort versus result: the dashboard compares the count's direction with the session's net price change — strong rotation without progress warns of absorption, worth checking against the volume and order-flow tools.

Six alerts cover strong rotation, sign flips, the divergence and the session lock-in.

Rotation Factor Settings

• Session Anchor (default D): session the tally runs over and resets on; choose deliberately on 24-hour markets.
• TPO Bracket (default 30): one bracket's duration — the statistic's only real parameter; must not be below the chart timeframe.
• Strong Rotation Threshold % (default 50): share of the possible range that reads as strongly one-sided.
• Balance Band % (default 15): share of the range that reads as balance.
• Show Dashboard (default enabled) with Position (default Top Right) and Size (default Small).
• Style toggles draw the score columns, gradient fill, range envelope, threshold levels and session breaks (all default enabled).

Frequently Asked Questions

How does this relate to a TPO profile?

It is the running arithmetic of the auction the profile displays. A TPO Profile shows where the session spent its time and what shape it built; the rotation factor compresses the bracket-by-bracket directional attempts into a single number.

Why is there no fixed extreme level for the count?

Because the achievable total grows with each bracket the session prints — twelve comparisons bound the day at ±24. Strength is therefore scored as a percentage of the day's own maximum, which the thresholds and alerts key on.

What does the developing bracket contribute?

A provisional score, drawn as a column that settles when its bracket completes. The session's first bracket is the unscored baseline, and comparisons never span sessions — each day's tally starts at its second bracket.