MMBM is a 3-phase pattern that reveals how smart money builds long positions while faking retail out over and over again.
Once you understand this model → you’ll never chase bad longs again 🧲
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🧩 The 3 Phases of MMBM:
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🔻 Phase 1: Accumulation Phase
📍 Range-bound, choppy price action
🧠 Designed to build internal liquidity + trap impatient traders
🚫 No real trend → just range between equal highs/lows
🔍 Clues:
• Liquidity sweeps of both sides
• Fake BOS events
• Internal structure forming
• Often overlays with AM session (Asian range)
⛓️ Smart money is filling orders here quietly
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💥 Phase 2: Manipulation Phase (The Trap)
⚠️ The “real” move begins — but it’s a liquidity sweep
Price violently breaks down below the range to grab stop-losses under equal lows
🔍 Clues:
• Big bearish candle
• Stop hunts
• RSI or CVD divergence
• Sharp V-shape rejection
👁️ Smart money is buying into the fear
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🚀 Phase 3: Distribution to the Upside (Expansion)
🎯 Now the real move begins — price explodes upward
This leg includes:
✅ A major BOS to the upside
✅ Multiple Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) left behind
✅ Order blocks and mitigation zones created
You’ll often see:
• Displacement
• Pullback into FVG → continuation
• Sweep of internal highs → more fuel
• Trend-based structure forming
🪜 This is where you ride the move up with sniper entries
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🎯 How to Trade the MMBM Like a Ghost:
1. Wait for the Range (Phase 1)
• Mark equal highs/lows
• Expect manipulation next
2. Watch for the Manipulation (Phase 2)
• Strong break below → instant rejection
• Look for confirmation entry: rejection wick, mini BOS, or volume divergence
3. Anchor the Expansion (Phase 3)
• Trade FVGs and OBs left behind on the expansion
• Use BOS level as confirmation
• Ride to external liquidity
⚠️ Don’t enter too early in Phase 1
💎 Your golden trade usually begins after the trap
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🔄 MMBM = A Playbook Smart Money Repeats
MMBM works because retail traders keep:
• Chasing early breakouts
• Panicking on manipulation drops
• Entering late after the expansion starts
📌 Once you expect the trap → you’re no longer the target
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Master the MMBM = Master timing entries before the market even moves 🔓
