How the Market Makers Extract Millions of Dollars a Day
An exploration of the Market Maker Method and its Accumulation, Manipulation and Distribution framework.
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Stop chasing trading signals.
Start understanding what to do.
Most indicators tell you when something has happened. PAT helps you understand what the market is attempting to do — and whether that move is being accepted or rejected.
See the pressure building. Recognise the push. Watch the response.
All on your TradingView chart.
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Why PAT is different — and what it will do for your trading
A Trading Signal Is Not an Outcome
Your indicator says BUY. Everything looks right. You enter, expecting the market to rise.
But what happens when the market has other ideas — and doesn't do what you expected?
You don't need another trading signal telling you when to buy or sell. You need to understand whether the move you're expecting is actually developing — or beginning to fail.
Watching this video could permanently change the way you look at trading and trading indicators.
A different way to see the market
Imagine watching the market change its mind — and knowing what to do.
You've seen it happen. A promising move begins, confidence builds, and then the market turns against you.
The question isn't simply where to enter. It's whether the reasons behind that move are still developing — or beginning to disappear.
That's where PAT changes what you pay attention to.
01 — Notice the change
Something is happening. Don't miss it.
PAT draws your attention to significant developing activity that may otherwise be lost amongst ordinary candles.
02 — Understand the push
The market is making a move. But will it hold?
See attempts to establish new price levels and understand their relationship to the Ray Line.
03 — Keep reading
Know when it's time to question your original decision.
Watch for developing acceptance, rejection or changing conditions — even after you've entered a trade.
Imagine looking at a chart and finally understanding what to do — and when to do it.
The indicator
Three things. One clearer picture of the market.
Purple Dots, Ray Lines and Pressure Points work together to help you understand what the market is attempting to do — and how it responds. Rather than following isolated buy and sell signals, you're learning to read the developing market.
Purple Dots
Something worth your attention.
Purple Dots highlight important developing activity, inviting you to watch what happens next.
Ray Lines
Strength above. Weakness below.
Ray Lines provide a reference for judging whether price is establishing itself at a new level or failing to hold.
Pressure Points
A meaningful push towards a new price level.
The arrow identifies the attempt — what happens afterwards tells us whether that attempt is being accepted or rejected.
Trading Sessions provide the timing and context, helping you see when market activity develops across the forex trading day.
The Market Maker Method
Accumulation. Manipulation. Distribution.
AMD is the methodology behind PAT. It describes how a move is prepared, shaken, and then released. Distribution is also called Profit Release, the phase in which that prepared move is released.
A candle records where price traded. PAT is read on that candle. The indicator is there so the three phases can be seen while they are developing, through Ray Lines, Pressure Points, Jump Bars, and the trading session on the chart.
01 · ACCUMULATION
Activity builds before the result shows in price.
02 · MANIPULATION
Price shakes traders who are watching the candle alone.
03 · DISTRIBUTION
The move is released. Also called Profit Release.
These phases have been the centre of the teaching for decades. One indicator carries the read on the candle chart.
In 1990, placing a trade meant picking up the telephone.
There was no TradingView. No online trading platform sitting on your desk. If you wanted to place a trade, you called your broker.
But the question that fascinated me then is the same question I've spent decades trying to answer.
What happens in a market before the price moves?
In December 1999, Futures and Options World published an article about my work called Beyond Belief. At the time, I was identifying trending days better than eight times out of ten.
That work developed into the Market Maker Method — Accumulation, Manipulation and Distribution — and the thinking behind PAT today.
Read my story →
The thinking behind PAT didn't begin with software.
Two published books explore the thinking behind the Market Maker Method — from Accumulation, Manipulation and Distribution to the beliefs and assumptions that influence market behaviour.
PAT for TradingView brings that methodology onto your chart.
Why Traders Misunderstand the Market
Why familiar explanations of price can overlook market structure, liquidity and the beliefs influencing trading decisions.
Questions
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Contact
Questions about PAT
If you want to talk about the methodology, or about using PAT on a TradingView chart, get in touch and I'll get back to you.
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