About Martin Cole &
The Market Maker Method

I’ve been a professional trader since the 1990s, and in 1999 I documented a model that explains how the market really moves — long before it became widely taught.

It’s called the Market Maker Method, and it describes the three phases institutions use to engineer price:

• Accumulation
• Manipulation
• Distribution (Profit Release)

This framework is now known globally as AMD, but it began here.

Today, the Market Maker Method is visualised through the PAT AMD Indicator, which runs on TradingView and shows these phases unfolding in real time.

If you want the complete origin story — including the 1999 Futures & Options World feature and the development of the AMD framework — you’ll find it on the main site:

👉 Read the full origin story

If you’re new and want to begin learning properly, start with the structured 7-day path:

👉 Start the 7-Day Onboarding Path