Power of Three (PO3 / AMD)

ICT · Timeframe: H1 / M15 · Sessions: Asia → London → NY

Each daily candle is built in three phases: Accumulation, Manipulation and Distribution.

How it works

ICT describes the price delivery algorithm (IPDA) as building each daily candle in three phases. 1) ACCUMULATION: during Asia price ranges near the New York midnight open, building liquidity on both sides of the range. 2) MANIPULATION (Judas swing): in London price makes a false move against the day's true direction, sweeping the Asian high or low and trapping breakout traders. 3) DISTRIBUTION: in New York price expands in the real direction, leaving the daily wick in the manipulation zone. On a bullish day the daily candle opens, trades below the open (forming the lower wick) and closes near the high.

Step-by-step rules

1. Mark the Asian range (19:00–00:00 NY) and the New York midnight open.
2. Define the daily bias (H4/daily structure, draw on liquidity).
3. Wait for London to sweep the side of the Asian range opposite to the bias (bullish bias: a sweep of the low) and trade below the open.
4. Confirm with displacement and a move back above the midnight open (MSS on M5/M15).
5. Entry on the reclaim; stop below the manipulation low; target: Asian high, PDH or 2R.

How Marketalyx tests it

Detector: a day where between 00:00 and 08:00 NY price sweeps the Asian low (high) and the 08:00 candle closes above (below) the midnight open → entry at the close, stop at the manipulation extreme, 2R target, forced exit at 16:00 NY.

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