Value Migration

Value Migration classifies every completed session against the one before it under the overlapping value rules, turning value migration into labeled objects on the chart. Each session — daily anchor by default — is reduced to a value area and point of control, and the new area is graded against the prior one: Higher, Overlap higher, Unchanged, Overlap lower, Lower or Outside. Boxes and POC lines color by category, a dotted developing area tracks the live session against extended prior references, and a dashboard reads the streak and sequence.

How to Trade the Value Migration?

• Clean migrations: a value area built entirely above or below the prior one is the strong directional case; overlapping shifts are tentative — all six categories carry alerts.
• Streaks: consecutive same-direction migrations reaching the Trend-Grade Streak read as trend-grade acceptance, with a dedicated alert.
• Warning marks: a new price extreme while value fails to migrate that way is excursion without acceptance — flagged on the label and alerted.

Value Migration Settings

• Anchor Period (default Daily): the sessions being compared; run the chart below it.
• Profile Rows (default 25): resolution of each session profile.
• Value Area % (default 70): share of the session's business expanded around the POC.
• Profile Weighting (default Volume): volume-distributed rows or TPO (Time) counts.
• Unchanged Tolerance % (default 10): how closely both edges must match the prior area to read as unchanged.
• Trend-Grade Streak (default 3): consecutive sessions treated as trend evidence.
• Display: Session Value Areas, Session POC, Migration Labels, Developing Value Area, Prior Value References, Dashboard (all on, Top Right, Small).

Frequently Asked Questions

How does this differ from a TPO profile?

A TPO Profile lays out one session's internal structure in full. Value Migration compresses each session to three numbers — value area high, low and POC — because the tradable information is the sequence across sessions.

Why did a strong-looking day read Unchanged?

Because value is compared, not price. A session can spike far beyond the prior range yet build most of its business at the same prices; categories only move when the value area relocates; a spike without migration raises the warning instead.

Should I weight profiles by volume or TPO?

Volume weighting locates value where the most shares traded; TPO weighting locates it where price spent the most time. They usually agree within a row or two, and TPO is the automatic fallback when the symbol reports no volume.