Strategy rules.
Complete execution model.
Tanja Trades publicly identifies NQ as her favorite futures market and describes her approach through ICT concepts. Her published AMD playbook organizes the session into Accumulation, Manipulation and Distribution. Accumulation is a balanced pre-move range where liquidity builds on both sides. Manipulation is the false expansion that raids one side of that range; Tanja's rules explicitly avoid entering during the sweep itself. Distribution becomes tradable only after price displaces through a meaningful swing with force and leaves a fair value gap. The BUY model uses NQ in the New York session. The higher-timeframe map—Daily, 4H and 1H—must show a clear draw toward equal highs, an unfilled imbalance or a clean swing high. The calendar must contain a meaningful catalyst such as CPI, NFP, GDP, FOMC or PPI, while NQ and ES correlation cannot be heavily conflicted. Price first accumulates inside the pre-news range, then sweeps sell-side liquidity below the range. A long is permitted only after bullish displacement closes back through the internal swing high and leaves a valid M1–M5 fair value gap. The entry is the first controlled retracement into that gap during a documented macro window—typically 9:50–10:10 or 10:50–11:10 Eastern Time. If price never retraces, the trade is skipped rather than chased. Structural risk sits below the manipulation low. Partial profit is set at the next swing or FVG, while the remaining position trails toward equal highs or the higher-timeframe draw. The session is capped at two attempts; two losses end the day.
Representative rule map · entry, invalidation and objective—not a historical trade.
