AZO: The entire year may have just been manipulation. (PLAYBOOK)AutoZone, Inc.BATS:AZOKingsii13Interesting post today, AZO is currently sitting inside an extremely clean bullish PO3, and the yearly context is what makes this setup so interesting. At the beginning of 2026, price began pushing aggressively lower. Most people see weakness. I see the manipulation phase. That selloff traded directly into a Daily Rejection Block, while simultaneously delivering what could become the lower wick of the entire 12M candle. Now think about what happens if the PO3 transitions into expansion: The yearly candle begins reclaiming the selloff. The 12M candle flips back bullish. And price spends the remainder of 2026 expanding higher. 12M Open → Manipulation Lower → Expansion Higher This is the fundamental of candle stick behaviour. The interesting part is that the company itself hasn't exactly collapsed either — AutoZone's latest reported quarter still showed +8.4% YoY sales growth, while the company authorized another $1.5B in share repurchases in June. Yet the chart spent the beginning of the year pushing lower. That's the part people miss. They look at every red candle as selling. They never ask whether the selling itself is being used to manufacture the liquidity required for the next expansion. The candle everyone fears can become the wick everyone wishes they bought. They don't teach this ball knowledge. Price action tells you when the manipulation is happening.