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Lesson 10 MMBM Re-Accumulation

This document discusses how the market maker model (MMBM) can be used to project areas for potential price re-accumulation and continuation of an uptrend. It notes that bullish price discovery arrays will often form between previous bearish arrays, with price breaking lower swing highs but stopping just below the next high. These areas represent opportunities for smart money to re-accumulate before price expands up again. The document provides an example on a 15-minute Nasdaq chart to illustrate how previous order blocks and value areas that acted as resistance can later provide support through inversion, allowing for re-accumulation and further uptrend development.

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Lesson 10 MMBM Re-Accumulation

This document discusses how the market maker model (MMBM) can be used to project areas for potential price re-accumulation and continuation of an uptrend. It notes that bullish price discovery arrays will often form between previous bearish arrays, with price breaking lower swing highs but stopping just below the next high. These areas represent opportunities for smart money to re-accumulate before price expands up again. The document provides an example on a 15-minute Nasdaq chart to illustrate how previous order blocks and value areas that acted as resistance can later provide support through inversion, allowing for re-accumulation and further uptrend development.

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Lesson 10: MMBM (re-

accumulation)

If you haven’t read the market maker model PDF, it is recommended you read it for this
one to make more sense. I will still try to keep this as simplified as possible!

From the last PDF, you know that a MMBM begins once it has swept a HTF POI for
liquidity, fails to displace lower, and has an energetic move in the UP direction. Price is
starting the move of EXPANDING UP and developing the buyside of the curve. You
would then proceed to look for you market structure shift, FVG, and OB to define your
trade, targeting buyside liquidity. But what if you already knew where these areas would
form, before they formed? How? By using the left side of the curve to guide you of
where possible re-accumulation may occur.

General Template - MMBM Re-Accumulation Projections

What do you notice? Bullish PD Array’s are formed between the bearish PD Arrays on
the left. Specifically, price will break one swing high on the left and stop just before the
next swing high on the left. This in turn creates a bullish PD Array on the right!

Here is that idea highlighted with the BLUE path. The yellow circles show where the first

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swing high on the left is broken, but the second high remains intact (this area represents
a bearish PD Array. It is between this area where you expect a bullish PD Array to form
on the right side of the curve (fun fact: this is usually the breaker setup). Price then
sweeps the internal sellside liquidity, enters the breaker (previously a OB-) where price
will re-accumulate, and then EXPAND UP.

Price will the continue this path of taking old swing highs, and forming new bullish PD
Arrays (on the right) inside of old bearish PD Arrays (on the left). These old bearish PD
Arrays begin to act as support - which is what ICT refers to as inversion! This is where
you will expect to see re-accumulation to occur for further EXPANSION of price in the
UP direction.

Here is the blue path continued along with the 2nd swing high being taken out and so
forth. Bonus: note the silver bullet setup from past PDF’s!

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MMBM Re-Accumulation (Example)

Let’s use a m15 chart to showcase this (imagine that it is a m1 chart). The following
chart uses $NQ. All of the red zones (either -FVG’s or -OB’s) are inside old bearish PD
Arrays where one would expect price to resist and selloff. However, if you are bullish,
these are areas where you would expect price to re-accumulate and EXPAND HIGHER.

There is an obvious market structure shift UP after sweeping the prior month’s lows
(there is also SMT here with ES → which did not sweep the lows). Price EXPANDS UP
and then pulls back just as quickly, back into the bullish PD Array that is created (m15

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FVG). What do you notice about the bodies of the candles closing at the OB (shown
below)?

They close respecting the OB! But also…

They respect our breaker block setup! Pretty neat eh. This is where you would expect
price to re-accumulate when beginning the buyside of the curve. Now you will look for
price to re-accumulate in-between the old bearish PD Arrays OR inside our bullish FVG’
and OB’s that you have been using all this time.

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Here is the m15 FVG shown with the purple lines. You now know there is a breaker
block and the order blocks to support adds. The swing low becomes the stop loss (risk).
The entry goes inside the breaker or at OB’s. Your target becomes the previous day’s
high. The red zones are now drawn as blue zones on the right, representing areas
where price may re-accumulate to EXPAND UP. More importantly, this is where you
should see bullish PD Arrays form with bullish structure.

This is shown first by the first m15 FVG, where price retraces back into and EXPANDS
out of it in the UP direction.

Then here, where we have an old bearish FVG inside a bearish PD array. It initially did
act as resistance, but now is providing support (inversion) after creating a bullish PD
Array! Price re-accumulates inside m15 FVG / old bearish PD Array.

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AND lastly, here, where the lonely bearish breaker remained…the same idea.

Price does respect the bearish structure at first, but eventually, it becomes an area
where price finds support (inversion), allowing smart money to re-accumulate and
distribute higher. Between each bearish PD Array, there will be an opportunity for a
bullish PD Array to form. These are the areas where you want to look for potential adds
to join the trend or buyside of the curve - price EXPANSION UP.

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Your eyes will begin to see how old bearish OB’s and FVG’s showcase where bullish
PD Arrays will form, and how the structure will form. This is how you can anticipate what
price ‘should’ with the mentality of “if this then that”. Now the best way to learn how to
do this is to go practice looking at past charts AND doing it live! Project and watch how
price behaves. All of the A+ setups come from this logic (breaker, silver bullet, turtle
soup, etc.)

Some additional resources for this lesson:

@matt_loeber has great content on this (Youtube and his chart annotations) so
definitely check him out.

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