Module 6: Multi-Timeframe Analysis · Lesson 85/144
8 min 55 XP
A Point of Interest (POI) is a specific area on the chart where you EXPECT price to react, marked ahead of time, where you will then look for a trade. It is the answer to "WHERE do I wait?" You do not chase price around; you decide your POIs on the higher timeframe, set alerts, and let price come to one of them. Only then do you drop down and look for a trigger.
Same idea, many names
POI is also called a zone of interest, an area of interest (AOI), a decision point, or simply "a level to watch". Whatever the name, it is a pre-planned spot where you will pay attention and nowhere else.
A POI is any high-quality reference from everything you have learned: a higher-timeframe supply or demand zone, a major support/resistance level, the previous day or week high/low, a pattern neckline or breakout level, or a Fibonacci area (next module). In Smart-Money language you will also meet order blocks and fair-value gaps as POIs — same concept, named differently; they get their own module later.
A POI worth marking ✅
Not a POI ❌
This is the alignment you have been building toward. On the higher timeframe you mark your POIs and your bias (WHERE). You then wait, doing nothing, until price actually trades into a POI. The moment it does, you drop to the lower timeframe for the trigger (WHEN): a structure shift and a confirming candle inside or at the POI. POI + trigger = trade. No POI reached means no trade, however tempting the lower timeframe looks.