Trading Lab: How Tick Density Turns a Price Into a Zone

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Trading Lab Price is a distribution, not a dot A quoted price can look precise, but active markets trade through a small cloud of prints around that level. On gold, a decision area such as 4054.15 may carry thousands of ticks spread through nearby fractions of price, and the quality of that activity matters more than the printed number alone. The useful read is whether participation is collecting near the mean or stretching toward the upper and lower edges of the local tick cloud. PULSE studies that behavior because extremes around a dense pocket can create cleaner execution zones than a flat line on a chart. A trader who treats...