What Is POI?

Points of Interest (POI) is where price is expected to react and reverse. POI is not the same as DOL. DOL is where price is being drawn. POI is where it turns. Knowing the draw without knowing the reversal zone means entering too early and getting stopped before the real move.

Step 3 of the Reversal Sequence Protocol.

What Makes a POI

POI requires confluence - multiple tools or timeframes pointing at the same zone. A single imbalance in isolation is weak. The same level where a weekly PXH, an old order block, and a session opening price converge is strong.

PXH/PXL (Previous Session Extremes) - Prior session highs and lows across multiple timeframes. When a weekly high aligns with a monthly low at the same price, the market has already shown it responds to that level.

Old PD Arrays - Unfilled Fair Value Gaps, Order Blocks, and Breaker Blocks sitting at or near the anticipated turning point. These are the zones where institutional orders were placed previously and may be defended or revisited.

Key Level confluence - Significant swing points, equal highs/lows, session opening prices. The more that align at a single zone, the stronger the POI.

Liquidity Engineering Ahead of POI

Watch the candles as price approaches a known POI. Before a real reaction, institutions often clean out weak hands - sharp spikes below support, quick reversals back up, wide-range candles. This is not random. It is deliberate positioning. When you see this pattern in the 30-60 minutes before price reaches the POI zone, the reaction is more likely to hold.

When you do not see it - when price arrives at the POI cleanly without any stop-running - the reaction is less reliable.

Premium and Discount

In premium (price above a key reference level), support becomes resistance and longs are the weaker position. In discount (price below), the reverse applies. POI in premium favors short entries on rejection. POI in discount favors long entries on bounce. Trading a POI against the premium/discount context lowers probability.

Common Mistakes

Calling every level a POI. Single-tool levels without confluence are not POI. Hierarchy matters - a weekly level outweighs a daily level, which outweighs an hourly level. Score the confluence before assigning conviction.

Confusing DOL and POI. DOL tells you where price is going. POI tells you where it turns. Price drawn toward 5150 does not mean 5150 is the reversal zone - it may be 5160-5170 where an old order block sits. Getting this distinction wrong puts you in before the real entry.

Entering at POI without TOI and SMT. Price at a valid POI is not yet a trade. Without time confirmation and divergence, you are reacting to price, not the protocol.

DOL is the direction. POI is the battle line. Price travels toward DOL, but it reverses at POI.