Market Maker Models
The Market Maker Model (AMD): how institutions accumulate, manipulate, and distribute in repeating cycles. Learn to read and trade each phase.
The Market Maker Model (AMD): how institutions accumulate, manipulate, and distribute in repeating cycles. Learn to read and trade each phase.
The Market Maker Model (AMD): how institutions accumulate, manipulate, and distribute in repeating cycles. Learn to read and trade each phase.
The Market Maker Model (AMD): how institutions accumulate, manipulate, and distribute in repeating cycles. Learn to read and trade each phase.
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Answer these questions to check your understanding.
1. AMD stands for:
2. The manipulation phase is designed to:
The market maker model frames every move as a deliberate three-act play: accumulate, manipulate, distribute. Instead of seeing random price action, you see an operator engineering liquidity to fill orders.
Accumulation — the operator builds a position in a range. Manipulation — a sweep (often the Judas swing) grabs stops in the wrong direction. Distribution — the real expansion delivers price to the target, filling the operator's exits.
In a market-maker buy model, price is pushed down to sweep sell-side liquidity (manipulation low) before the markup. In a sell model, price is pushed up to sweep buy-side liquidity before the markdown. Identifying which model you're in tells you which side to take.
Map the session's likely manipulation level (Asian range extreme, prior-day high/low), wait for the sweep, then trade the distribution leg toward the opposing liquidity. The model turns a session into a roadmap.
Key takeaway
Every move is accumulate → manipulate → distribute. Find the manipulation sweep, then ride the distribution leg toward the opposing liquidity.
Into the session, price is pushed down to sweep sell-side liquidity below an obvious low — the manipulation leg. It rejects and breaks structure up. That sequence — accumulation range, downside manipulation sweep, then upside expansion — is the buy model. You enter long on the CHoCH after the sweep, targeting the buy-side liquidity the operator is driving toward.
It frames each move as a three-act play: accumulate a position, manipulate price with a liquidity sweep in the wrong direction, then distribute by delivering price to the real target. Identifying the manipulation sweep tells you which way the expansion will run.
Don't trade the sweep itself — wait for it to complete and for a structure shift, then enter the expansion leg toward the opposing liquidity with your stop beyond the manipulation extreme.
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