Professional Activity Tracker

One indicator.
One chart.
The PAT methodology.

PAT for TradingView.

PAT runs inside TradingView on a normal price candle. Ray Lines, Pressure Points, Jump Bars, and Trading Sessions put the Market Maker Method on that chart.

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PAT for TradingView on a EUR/USD candle chart, with Ray Lines, Pressure Points, Jump Bars, and trading session boxes.

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 →
Martin Cole, founder of PAT

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.

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.

The indicator

Four parts. One TradingView chart.

PAT uses the price candles already on your TradingView chart. Each part below is there to make the methodology readable.

Ray Lines

A reference on the candle chart while a move is developing.

Pressure Points

Marks a change in market activity that belongs in the read.

Jump Bars

Marks a jump in that activity on the candle.

Trading Sessions

Asia, Sydney, London, and New York, shown on the chart you are reading.

Questions

Reading PAT

PAT means Professional Activity Tracker. PAT for TradingView is one indicator on one chart. You add it to a normal TradingView price candle and read the market through the PAT methodology.

It is the methodology behind PAT: Accumulation, Manipulation, and Distribution. Distribution is also taught as Profit Release. The three phases are how the indicator is read. Read the three phases →

PAT displays Ray Lines, Purple Dots, Pressure Points and Trading Sessions on a normal TradingView candle chart.

Yes. PAT runs inside TradingView. You'll need a TradingView account and must provide your TradingView username so access to the invite-only PAT indicator can be granted manually. Once access is granted, you can add PAT to your TradingView chart.

Yes. PAT for TradingView can be applied to markets chartable in TradingView. The Market Maker Method is a framework for interpreting market behaviour, not a collection of buy and sell signals restricted to individual instruments.

No. PAT does not hand you trades to copy. It shows the activity on the chart so you can make your own read.

No. You decide and place every trade yourself.

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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