Power of 3 (AMD) as a trading planAdvanced

Accumulation, manipulation, distribution: using the idea without guessing.

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The idea

Power of 3 describes a daily or session candle in three phases: a quiet range, a false move, and the real move. A bullish day often dips below its open first, then rallies.

Turning it into rules

On its own, AMD is a description, not a trade. Traders usually turn it into: wait for the manipulation (a sweep of the session's early range or the open), then a structure shift, then enter on a gap in the direction of the expected distribution.

Variations traders use

Using the midnight New York open as the reference price, or the London open, and only trading in the direction of the daily bias.

What testing shows

The rule version is essentially a sweep and fair value gap model with a time filter, so test it the same way: plain first, then add the bias, then the time window.

What it looks like on a real chart

Picked automatically from the backtest on real data: the latest winner and the latest loser. The numbered circles are the steps of the rules, in order. Losers are part of every strategy.

Winner +2RNQ · 15m · 2026-10-29 · Short

Loser -1RNQ · 15m · 2026-11-02 · Long

How WickCheck tests it

Between 08:00 and 11:00 New York time, wait for a liquidity sweep, then wait for a break of structure, then wait for a fair value gap. Enter on the FVG. Stop above the sweep. Target 2R. The sweep can happen before the window.

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