August 2026 produced 258 VPOC shifts across 8 trading days. Direction was balanced. Most active hour: 09:00 ET with 169 VPOC shifts. For every VPOC shift, the prior level becomes a Naked candidate; this month logged 239 Naked touches (prior VPOCs that price revisited).
At a normalized rate, the VPOC migrated 5.9 times per RTH hour on average. Each log segment held a median of 17 distinct VPOC prices and covered a typical range of 29.75 points from the lowest to highest VPOC observed within that segment.
Cumulatively, the VPOC traveled 514.75 points across all shifts this month — the sum of every individual shift's distance. The signed net was -7.25 points (down), meaning if you summed every shift's direction, the VPOC ended the month a net 7.25 points down from where individual shifts started. Per session, the VPOC moved an average of -12.78 points from open to close.
On the Naked side, 307 levels became naked during the month (when a VPOC shift moved away from them), and 88% of those were tested before their session ended. The median naked level sat untouched for 6s before being revisited; the mean was 4m 11s. The gap between those two numbers reflects the long-tail distribution — most naked levels get tested fast, a small number sit much longer.
When a Developing VPOC was active and a VPOC shift occurred, the shift landed on the DVPOC price 8.7% of the time (26 of 298 eligible shifts). This is a historical observation of how often the addon's Developing VPOC anticipated the next VPOC — it isn't a forecast signal, and shifts that didn't match still happened frequently.
Each shift here represents real volume migration — the market's declared fair value physically moving to a new price as that level absorbed more contracts than any other. This is one trader's chart-time during RTH, not a back-test; sample size for August is 8 trading days.