Passe — pas de trade

The gate fired on a 5m close back above the developing POC ($79,706.5) — but a 5m close is never a valid trigger on this book, and the named 15m trigger is absent: the last CLOSED 15m (20:00 UTC) closed DOWN at $79,685.2, i.e. below the dPOC, contradicting the long read. Price is also chopping in the middle of a tight $79,411–$80,166 day range right at dPOC/VWAP/D-Open — the classic POC 50/50 no-trade zone — on near-zero volume with flat 5m delta and slightly declining 4h OI, a poor reaction. This same dev_poc already fired within the last 30 minutes, so I demand a fresh 15-minute close (through a value-area edge, not the POC) before committing.