Single Prints: The Market Profile Levels That Act Like Magnets

A special fair value gap on the 30-minute profile… price is drawn back to fill it, and that pull becomes your target.

From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library… 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018.

Single prints are a market profile concept. They mark a fast, one-sided move where price traded through a zone only once and left a trail behind it. On the profile that trail shows up as a special kind of Fair Value Gap, and it carries the same pull… price wants to come back and fill it. You find them only on the 30-minute ES E-mini futures chart during regular trading hours.

This page pulls together everything George teaches about single prints across hundreds of live ES and MES micro futures sessions… what they are, how to mark them without fooling yourself, and how to trade them as magnets, as targets, and as confluence that supercharges a bounce. For the full market profile toolkit, see Market Profile: POC, Value Area & Single Prints. This page goes deep on single prints alone.

“"So let's discuss single prints. Now this is a market profile concept, okay, and single prints is a special type of Fair Value Gap."”

— George, live session, Oct 29, 2022

ES futures Battle Plan chart from George’s published record

From George’s published record: Micros Trade Plan #323 — a 80-point move, mapped in advance.

What a Single Print Actually Is

Picture a normal profile. Price stacks up sideways, trading a level over and over, building fat rows of activity. Now picture a fast move that skips right through a zone. Price touches it once and never returns during the session. That skipped zone is a single print. It leaves the same signature as a Fair Value Gap… a trail where price only traded once.

Why does that trail matter? Because it marks emotion. A single print shows the market moving on feeling instead of fair value. George calls it exactly what it is… an irrational move that price is expected to come back and repair.

“"As with Fair Value Gaps, single prints leave a trail where price only traded once."”

— George, live session, Oct 29, 2022

George has taught this in 12+ recorded sessions… and every claim in the full lesson links to the recording it came from. The full lesson covers far more than fits here.

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