Failed auction with in NSE timing prospective..
If prices move higher then we say that buyers are in control and if they go down then sellers appear to be controlling.In Market Profile "Open" is life and blood, this is what i understood upon this usage of IB ,80 % rule,Open drive etc comes into play
Most of the times, the first 60 minutes appear to be the time when the market is establishing value for the day and is referred to as the Initial Balance. This is especially the case in markets like ours which do not confirm to 24 hour futures trading and hence knowing the first 60 minutes of activity becomes very important for a trader in the day time frame.But once it open out side the va's it is much more similar to Breakout failure pattern of classic charts once its fails
As markets do not always stay within the first 60 minutes of activity the whole day, the movements outside the initial balance often produce some amazing trading opportunities for all traders.Market Profiler named Ray Barros is the person who bought this idea of Failed Auction.
Failed Auction Theory : A failure to stay outside the initial balance for more than 30 minutes (on one side), followed by a revisit inside the initial balance and an opposite move on the other side of the Initial balance, but with in this if the first candle of 30 mins is out side the va's (gap),then it may be open drive or a failure ,will lead to downside..so for our market as per the core rule of the concept this amount to failed auction as per my understanding !!!
"After a failed auction, the initial move is in the direction opposite to the one that failed, but the beauty of the theory as pointed by Ray Barros is that the market will revisit the failed auction zone in about 5-6 days in over 75 % of the cases." it is this point which can be used for swing trading
Since we are traders and have to assemble whole concepts in a flow with out conflict particularly if you assemble with Dalton ,so i trade this concept like this for F and o...
Hope this post will clear, all the confusion on usage of Failed auction