Market Maker Models (MMXM)
The Market Maker Buy and Sell Models are repeatable patterns: a consolidation, staged distribution into a Smart Money Reversal at a higher-timeframe PDRA, then an accumulation back to the original consolidation. Learn to spot them, align your timeframes, and enter.
A market maker model (MMXM) is a pattern that appears again and again in the market. It is packed with generated liquidity that gets attacked later, and it always starts with a consolidation. These models form on a lower timeframe, inside the retracement phase of a higher-timeframe order flow.
- Market Maker Buy Model (MMBM): forms in a bullish order flow. You use it to find longs.
- Market Maker Sell Model (MMSM): forms in a bearish order flow. You use it to find shorts.
SMR = Smart Money Reversal
The turning point of the model, where price reverses after hitting a higher-timeframe PDRA, is called the SMR (Smart Money Reversal). That PDRA can be a swing high or low, an FVG, a breaker, or any other PDRA.
The Market Maker Buy Model
The model starts with an original consolidation, a sideways range. This is the bullish version, the Market Maker Buy Model, forming inside the retracement of a bullish order flow.
Spot it: Find the tight sideways range first: that is the original consolidation.
How many stages?
Usually there are two stages of distribution (or accumulation), though a third can happen. The exact names of each stage are not important. What matters is recognizing the pattern as it forms inside the retracement.
The Market Maker Sell Model
The sell model is the exact mirror. It also starts with an original consolidation, this time forming inside the retracement of a bearish order flow.
Spot it: Same start: a tight sideways range is the original consolidation.
Match the model to the order flow
In a bearish order flow, only look for the sell model. In a bullish order flow, only look for the buy model. The wrong-way model cannot complete, because reaching its original consolidation would require the order flow itself to reverse (an MSS), which is not what is happening.
Timeframe alignment is required
The timeframes must line up. You cannot read the bias on the monthly and then hunt the model on the H4. Use steps: monthly bias to a daily model to an H1 entry, or a daily bias to an H1 model to an M5/M1 entry. A common choice is daily bias, H1 model, M5 entry.
Entries inside the model
After the SMR and an MSS, enter at an FVG or the 50% of the latest pullback. There are usually several valid entries (first stage, second stage) until the model completes at the original consolidation. Inside the model, the IRL-to-ERL draw plays out, so price moves from FVGs to swing highs and lows.
Kill zones and news
The highest-probability entries land in the kill zones (Asian, London, New York sessions). Often one side of the model is slow and the other runs fast. If the move is driven by news, do not enter during the news, wait and enter after it.
Key takeaways
MMXM is a consolidation, staged move into an SMR at a higher-timeframe PDRA, then a move back to the original consolidation (the target). Use the buy model in a bullish order flow and the sell model in a bearish one. Align your timeframes, enter at an FVG or 50% after the MSS, and respect kill zones and news.
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