Today, we’re diving into two powerful concepts from ICT’s toolkit that can give you an edge in your trading: Breaker Blocks and Mitigation Blocks. There are one of my favourite PD Arrays to trade, especially the Breaker Block. I’m going to explain how I interpret them and how I incorporate them into my trading. Stay tuned all the way to the end because I’m going...
In this video I'm going to go through one of ICT's most famous sayings, which is "The bodies tell the story, and the wicks do the damage". If haven't taken the time to understand what he means, then you are seriously putting yourself at a disadvantage if you are using his concepts. This is one of the most crucial and useful pieces of the ICT puzzle. You often hear...
The idea of RESPECT and DISRESPECT completely transformed my ability to effectively read price action and trade profitably. ICT teaches about Premium/Discount (PD) Arrays. There is a lot of bickering and debate as to which of these PD Arrays are better. I'm here to build a case for the idea that they are all equally effective, and are just reference points on a...
In this video I go through how to effectively do a top-down analysis, and avoid common mistakes. This can apply to any type of trading methodology, but here the focus will be on ICT’s liquidity and inefficiency concepts. This topic is important to traders who are keen on improving their win-rate and catching those higher RR trades. Whilst those things don’t...
In this video I try to explain liquidity as it pertains to training in a simple manner. Liquidity are basically orders in the marketplace. Since trading is a zero-sum game, without liquidity, there is no trading. Simply put, If you wanted to BUY, then you would need someone to SELL to you, and vice versa. Smart Money has deep pockets and needs a large amount...
Once you have drawn Order Block on Daily time frame now move to lower time frame like 1H , 30 M or lower, you can see it started creating bullish candles. In this particular case a popular bullish candlestick pattern three white soldiers formed at 30 M time frame indicting potential reversal in trend.
Identify bearish order block as mentioned in previous post. Go to lower time frame to check consolidation phase and mark its support level. Check point where price went below support level and comeback to retest. Enter short trade once it breaks below again. so now we have 4 confluences for short entry. 1. 4 Hour's Bearish OB 2. Price Consolidation at...
Explaning the Bearish Order Block A bearish order block is a price area on a chart that indicates a potential sell opportunity because it suggests a shift in market sentiment from bullish to bearish. It's essentially a zone where a large number of sell orders were placed, creating a temporary imbalance between supply and demand.
Scalping gold using intraday bias refers to a trading strategy where investors take advantage of short-term price movements in the gold market based on the prevailing intraday bias. Intraday bias refers to the direction in which the price of an asset, in this case, gold, is expected to move within a single trading day. Traders who employ this strategy typically...
Whatever you trade… A successful trader minimises these risks by asking and answering a series of vital questions. This will help you ensure a clear strategy, an understanding of the market, and a control of emotions. Let’s dive into these questions. Q 1. Has a Trade Lined Up? Identifying a potential trade is the first step. Look for trends, chart patterns,...
The only constant with the financial markets is… Change The market is constantly changing in a way that it’s brining: New demand New supply New volume and fresh changes in the complex algorithms. If you want to thrive you need to learn to learn to adapt, evolve and grow with the markets. I want to cover four elements to today’s topic. The Inevitability of...
These are notes from the original ICT Mentorship 2023 Educational Video. I picked my own example here.
A Bearish Fair Value Gap is a 3 candle structure with a DOWN impulse candle (2nd) that indicates and creates an imbalance or an inefficiency in the market. WHAT DO THE IMBALANCES TELL US? These imbalances tell us that the buying and selling is not equal. Now the market needs to rebalance (move at least to 50% of the fair value gap to fill) to make up for the...
What is FOMC, and what does it do? FOMC stands for Federal Open Market Committee. It's a group of people who work for the US government and makes decisions about the country's money. They decide how much money should be in circulation and how much it should cost to borrow money. How does FOMC affect the forex market? FOMC's decisions can affect the forex...
ABBREVIATIONS & DEFINATIONS ORDER BLOCK OB is a Down/Up Candle at/near Support or Resistance before the move Up/Down, respectively. Down Candle is a Bearish Candle Up Candle is a Bullish Candle Bullish Order Block is Down candle at/near Support level, before the move up Bearish Order Block is Up Candle at/near the Resistance level, before the move...
Hi there guys! I will be doing a short tutorial on Smart Money Concept's liquidity. What is it? - Liquidity acts as a driver to move the market in a specific price range. - We can find liquidity in areas where many people place stop losses and buy/sell stops. - Market makers will manipulate the price in order to break through these obvious zones and seize the...
This is a quick review on the trade i had on GBPUSD, guys this is the simplest way to trade . Break in Market Structure on the higher time frame , then go to lower time frame to look for entry. remember to subscribe and share to all traders and aspiring traders you know.
hello, so you want a model that will get you profits? LOOK NO FURTHER!!!! this is the ICT BREAKER, this mode (and other confluences) is ALL, YOU, NEED. if you confluence the BREAKER with... - BMS - OTE - PREM /DISC RANGE - INTERNAL LIQUIDITY WHAT. MORE. COULD. YOU. WANT. what is labelled, as the purple box, THAT IS YOUR BREAKER BLOCK, YOU TRADE IN HERE WITH...