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title: 'ICT Power Of 3 - AMD'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=TCFvsZeYvV8'
video_id: 'TCFvsZeYvV8'
date: 2026-07-05
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# ICT Power Of 3 - AMD

> Source: [ICT Power Of 3 - AMD](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TCFvsZeYvV8)

## Summary

This video explains ICT's Power of Three (Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution) trading concept, covering how to identify it on charts and use it for entries. The presenter also clarifies OHLC and OLHC candle structures and provides multiple chart examples.

### Key Points

- **Power of Three Overview** [00:12] — The Power of Three (AMD) consists of Accumulation (range/consolidation), Manipulation (false breakout), and Distribution (expansion move).
- **Higher Timeframe Context** [00:26] — Before using AMD, traders need higher timeframe order flow or draw on liquidity to avoid trading patterns without a narrative.
- **OHLC vs OLHC** [00:38] — OHLC (open high low close) and OLHC (open low high close) refer to the structure of a higher timeframe candle, with intraday price action creating the range.
- **AMD Mechanics** [01:17] — Accumulation creates buy stops above highs and sell stops below lows. Manipulation is a false breakout that stops out traders and induces breakout sellers. Distribution then moves price in the intended direction.
- **Entry Methods** [02:29] — Two entry types: reversal entry within manipulation to catch the whole distribution, or continuation entry after manipulation if missed.
- **Fractal Nature** [03:08] — AMD is fractal and can be applied across all timeframes, from lower to higher.
- **Example: New York Open** [03:39] — Price consolidates, builds liquidity above high and below low. Manipulation sweeps the low, then price reverses back into range, signaling distribution higher.
- **Example: Failure Swings** [05:08] — On 5-minute chart, consolidation followed by manipulation that sweeps sell-side liquidity, then distribution to failure swings above.
- **Daily Candle AMD** [06:37] — London session manipulates Asian range, creating the wick of the daily candle, then distribution higher through New York forms the body.
- **Another Daily Example** [08:23] — London consolidates (accumulation), then manipulates, leading to distribution higher into New York open.
- **Lower Timeframe AMD** [09:25] — After daily distribution, a new AMD forms on 1-minute chart: accumulation before New York open, manipulation down, then distribution lower.
- **Projecting Distribution Targets** [10:04] — Use manipulation leg projection (e.g., 2-2.5 and 4-4.5 standard deviations) to estimate distribution targets.
- **Identifying Consolidations via Manipulation** [11:39] — If struggling to find consolidation, focus on aggressive price action out and back into a range; then identify the range as accumulation.
- **Final Example: London Manipulation** [13:21] — London session shows aggressive move out and back in; identify accumulation range, project manipulation leg, and anticipate distribution lower.

### Conclusion

The Power of Three (AMD) is a reliable framework for identifying intraday directional moves when combined with higher timeframe context. Entries can be taken either at the manipulation reversal or as a continuation within the distribution phase.

## Transcript

going to be over ict's power of three or accumulation manipulation and distribution we'll first briefly go over what open high low close and open low high close is before jumping into what the power of three is how to identify it
and some examples now before we begin the most important part is to have some higher time frame order flow or Draw on liquidity there has to be some sort of narrative or you are just trading patterns so what is open high low close
and open low high close open high low close and open low high close just refer close and open low high close just refer to the open low high and close of a higher time frame candle so for instance if this is the daily candle and this is
the intraday price action price opens puts in a low makes a high and then closes similarly ly down here price opens makes a high puts in a low and
then closes now the goal is to catch the expansion move or the bulk of the intraday range and that is where the power of three comes in so the power of power of three comes in so the power of three or AMD refers to accumulation
manipulation and distribution now accumulation is a range or a consolidation now what this does is creates buy stops above old highs and sell stops below old lows now when we enter manipulation it is a false
breakout outside of this range what this does is stops out any Longs entering during accumulation as well as induces breakout sellers into the market then price distributes higher and completes that power of three so you can see here
accumulation manipulates so what this does is induces breakout buyers and run shorts out of their positions and then distributes lowers so let's go ahead and overlay this on the last example so here you can see we have accumulation
manipulation which stops out anyone long in here as well as sellers are going to enter the market playing this breakout and then price reverses and distributes higher creating the daily range similarly down here price is
consolidating any early shorts gets stopped out any breakout buyers enter the market then price reverses and distributes lower so how and when do I look for entries using the power roof 3 well there are two ways I look for
entries here the first would be within the manipulation I'm going to be looking for reversal patterns here in the manipulation looking to catch this whole distribution however if I miss this or do not like to trade this I will be
looking for a continuation entry in this distribution so going back to our example here for these Longs I could be looking for a reversal here within the manipulation or looking for a continuation pattern here looking for
higher prices similarly down here I could be looking for sells on on this reversal here or looking to trade this continuation lower so let's hop into the chart and look at a few examples of this so here we are on the charts and the
first thing I want to talk about is this concept is fractal so I can use it on the lower time frames as well as the higher time frames we are first going to frame and then work our way to the higher time frames and the intraday
profile so if you notice here we have New York open making this move up and then all the way back down so marking out this morning's low let's see what out this morning's low let's see what happens once price takes this
and we are creating a range or a consolidation so let's go ahead and Mark this out with a green box so now what is happening here liquidity is being built Above This high and above this low so if I'm looking for price to continue lower
I'd like to see manipulation out of this side of the range to go lower if price is going to reverse and go back higher I'd like to see it manipulate down first and then distribute higher so let's see what
aggressive move down which is out of the range sweeping this low and then aggressively back into the range here so this would be our deviation from the range or our manipulation so now from here I'm going to be looking for an
entry long however I'm not looking for a market structure shift because we would I can do here is look for for an inversion or I can also look for the Box previous body's low over here so now what I'd look for is price to reach into
this inversion now that it is closed over my stop on this low and let's say over my stop on this low and let's say I'm looking for 2
accumulation manipulation and let's go ahead and remove this so we can visualize the distribution which is here so you can see that is our power of three or our accumulation manipulation and distribution so here we are on the 5
minute chart and take a moment and look at this price action and what do you see now you might see the failure swings right here on this high and we have sells side liquidity resting right here so let's see what happens here as price
continues now if you notice we have a consolidation right here aggressively we sweep this low and now we get aggressive movement
back into this range so we have our accumulation our manipulation which not only took the lows from our consolidation here but also sells side liquidity here and so now what can we anticipate we can
anticipate distribution or a move up to these failure swings so looking at it where could we get an entry well we have an inversion right here so looking to an inversion right here so looking to take an entry here my stop on this low
and then my target on this High let's see how this works
but you can see that we do in fact get our distribution above these old highs in this example we will be taking a look at the power of three for the daily candle or anticipating the Open high low close or open low high close so here we
are just after midnight let's go skip forward to the London the London session here what do we have right here we have a consolidation range
now what happens during London we're getting an aggressive move down is that me with an aggressive agressive move up yes we put in a down close candle here close above it retest it here and are moving higher so this is
manipulation so what can we anticipate we can anticipate distribution higher into the end of London and New York session and if this is correct this will be the manipulation of the daily candle and create a
move higher and higher here so you can see London sets the low of day here after manipulating the Asian range and then we distribute higher through the New York am session and zooming out and letting this continue until the end of
letting this continue until the end of day you can see we put in an open low High close our London was the manipulation creating the wick of the daily candle and then we got the distribution or the expansion of the
daily candle so let's take a look at our next example once again using the daily candles power of three so here we have midnight open let's go to our London session so here we are in London session and what do you notice about this price
action here all we did was consolidate so let's go ahead and Mark that out as our ACC accumulation What's Happening Here in London is we are manipulating so let's see if this is met with an aggressive move back into the range
because if we fail to displace back into the range we're likely to go accumulation manipulation we aggressively displace out and back into
the range so here is our manipulation and now what can we anticipate distribution higher so looking for distribution higher here so looking for distribution higher here so let's let this play out and see what
get our distribution higher so once again looking back we have accumulation again looking back we have accumulation of the Asia range London manipulation and then distribution into the New York open however at the New York open we do
reach into this new day opening Gap so let's go ahead and Mark that out now let's drop down to a lower time frame and see if we can spot another AMD so down here on the one minute chart here is our new day opening Gap and the
consequent encroachment of it what do we notice about the price action prior to the New York open here it is just consolidation right then what do we have we have an aggressive move out of the range here now at this point we're still
and this down close candle so I'd want to see further displacement down to confirm this idea so here we get that aggressive have moved down now so what can I anticipate some form of distribution lower now some
of you might be asking how do I know how far this distribution is going to go and that is generally when I like to project the manipulation so here I would be projecting from this low to this high is that's the low that made the
manipulation move and it's more visible on the 30 second chart so we will drop down to that so you can see this is the low that made the new high before we reversed so going back to the 1 minute chart this gives us some targets for
this distribution so here we have the 2 to 2.5 and then our 4 to 4.5 so from here do we have any PD arrays that line up with that yes we have some equal lows right
have some equal lows right here and then zooming out we have that the fourth standard deviation so let's see how this plays
deviation get a retracement to an up close candle we go lower into the 2 to 2.5 standard deviations and there we just go sweep those
can see we put in more equal lows here leaving the London low and then there we take the London low into this area here one thing I'm going to go over quickly is many people
struggle to find the consolidation instead of focusing on the consolidation just focus on where there is aggressive price action out and back into a range so for example here after we hit this London low let's see what
happens here we get an aggressive move down and then back into what range right here I have now identified this consolidation and then here is the manipulation so I'd want to see distribution Above This high and
possibly up higher letting this play out you can see we get aggressive move over this high and then now we get an aggressive move back into this range so now what is happening let's zoom in a little we just
identified the aggressive price action here where is the aggressive price action here right there now we can identify this consolidation and then where would we want the distribution lower below this
low and if we're going to get a continuation lower what is the low that made this high right there so let's see how this one plays
accumulation manipulation we do distribute over this old high however when we displace back into this range we enter a new accumulation manipulation distribution and this one is going with the higher time frame Trend and the
whole point of this segment of this video is if you struggle to find the consolidations focus instead on the manipulations and then identify the consolidation range in which this manipulated outside of so here we are
with our last example and let's move towards our lenon session to see what here we enter our London session now if you haven't already identified the
accumulation let's take a look at the manipulation and then work backwards so here you can see we get an aggressive move out and then back in So marking this out and we look left where is the range that we manipulated out of
right here so here is our manipulation now where is our accumulation we Mark out this range so anticipating distribution where can we anticipate that to distribute to here I
can use a projection of this manipulation leg so from this high to the low that made the new high which would be right here and if you can see would be right here and if you can see price went up then down again this is
where I would want to see price go to so marking out the 2 to 2.5 in the fourth deviation I'd want to see price reach for these areas so visualizing the distribution I'd want to see price reach or do something like this now what would
that mean for the daily candle that would mean that from our open here this is the manipulation of the daily candle which should create a wick and then I'd want to see the daily candle form as it moves lower so let's see what
you know that a possible entry lies right here when we retest this deviation from the range or the manipulation here we reach into the 2 to 2.5 standard deviations where we can anticipate a retracement or reversal and you can see
how this daily candle is starting to form here we get a retracement back into a fair value Gap and these up Clos candles here and we start to distribute
lower and there we reach our 4 to 4.5 standard deviations here I am happy with the overall range of the daily candle but overall range of the daily candle but let's see if it expands
whole lot after that now taking a quick look at this you can see we have our accumulation our manipulation and this manipulation above midnight open will form the wick of the daily candle and then we get our distribution creating
the body of the daily candle before it closes I hope you found this video helpful if you do want a part two of this where I go over AMD paired with standard deviations let me know and I will work on that if you are looking to
get some more information on standard deviations I will also link Dexter lab's Twitter in the description below and I hope you guys have a great rest of your hope you guys have a great rest of your day and I'll see you guys next