Chart — TPO Profile Settings

When the chart is in TPO mode, a TPO tab appears in Chart Settings. TPO (Time-Price-Opportunity) builds a market profile: for each period it stacks a letter/block at every price the market traded, so the shape shows where price spent the most time — the value area, the point of control, and structural features like single prints and poor highs/lows.

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A TPO profile with its point of control, value area, single prints and initial balance labelled

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A TPO profile: the widest row is the POC, the shaded band is the value area, thin edges are single prints.

Profile Settings

Setting	What it does
Anchor Point	How candles are grouped into a profile: Day, Week, Month or Session. Day groups by trading day; Session groups by market session.
Bin Size (ticks)	Tick levels per TPO block — higher values create wider price bands per letter/row.
Value Area %	The share of volume to include in the Value Area (typically 70%).

Display Settings

Toggle which structural features are drawn:

Setting	What it does
Show Labels	Show the profile's text labels (e.g. POC/VA markers).
Show POC	Highlight the Point of Control — the price level with the most TPOs (most time).
Show Value Area	Mark the value-area boundaries (the Value Area % range).
Show Value Area Background	Shade the value-area zone, not just its edges.
Show Single Prints	Highlight single prints — levels touched by only one TPO (fast, un-auctioned moves that often get revisited).
Show First Block	Emphasise the first block of the profile (the opening).
Show Last Block	Emphasise the last block (the most recent).
Show Poor High	Flag a poor high — a high with multiple TPOs (a weak, likely-to-be-retested extreme).
Show Poor Low	Flag a poor low — the same at the bottom of the profile.
Show Initial Balance	Mark the Initial Balance — the range of the first part of the session, a key reference for the day.
Split Profile	Draw separate profiles per period instead of merging them into one composite.

Colors

Coloring Mode

How the profile blocks are coloured:

POC + Value Area — neutral distribution with the POC and value area picked out.
Uniform Color — a single colour for the whole profile.
Gradient — a gradient from a start to an end colour.
Up/Down Direction — colour by directional movement.
Red-Blue Spectrum — a red→blue spectrum across price.
Time Spectrum (A→Z) — colour by time order, earliest to latest.

Time-Based Gradient Overlay

Darkens earlier blocks so you can see time progression within the profile (how the auction developed) on top of the chosen colouring mode.

Colour pickers

The relevant pickers appear for the mode you've selected:

Colour	Applies to
Distribution Color	The main profile blocks.
POC Color	The point-of-control row.
Value Area Color	The value-area band.
Uniform Color	The single colour (Uniform mode).
Gradient Start / Gradient End	The two ends of the gradient (Gradient mode).
First Block Color / Last Block Color	The opening and most-recent blocks.
Single Print Bg	Background of single-print levels.
Poor High Color / Poor Low Color	The poor-high and poor-low markers.

Line Settings

Styling for the POC and value-area lines:

Setting	What it does
POC Width	Thickness of the point-of-control line.
POC Style	Solid, Dashed or Dotted.
VA Width	Thickness of the value-area lines.
VA Style	Solid, Dashed or Dotted.

Tip

For day-trading, anchor by Session, keep Value Area % at 70, and turn on POC, Value Area, Single Prints and Initial Balance — that's the classic market-profile read of where value is and where price moved too fast.