Creating simplified PDF’s for traders to use to build their own trading strategy suited for THEIR psychology and style.
Ideas are built upon
#ICT
foundations.
First one dropped today (FREE).
Lesson 1: Price and Liquidity
Don’t miss it! Link is in the bio.
For those new to SMC/ICT concepts, the most important thing you’ll need to understand is LIQUIDITY.
Here’s a simplified mini intro thread to remind you of the basics🧵:
My trading consistency comes from being able to see the HTF direction. Without it, I feel aimless with setups.
Here's are some videos I made on how I repeat that process weekly:
Lesson 9: Order Blocks
#2
- Breaker Blocks Edition.
Lesson is now live in the telegram for FREE!
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ICT Simplified
A PDF series for futures and options traders.
Lesson 14: MMSM (re-distribution)
Google Drive Link:
All lessons are found in the free trading community
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Lesson 4 now in my telegram (FREE)!
I will be using the rest of the month to create more of these + other material to help shape your trading strategy + mindset as a trader.
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If you shorted this week, and got caught offside MULTIPLE TIMES, you’re not truly understanding higher time frame (HTF) "order flow".
Here are 5 things I use for HTF analysis:
“The Sauce”
Weekly Candle Reversal:
1• HTF PD Array (direction)
2• Day of week (time of shift)
3• CISD (confirmation)
4• OLHC or OHLC (time)
Once this occurs, anticipate > hourly arrays to deliver price in the direction of reversal.
“The Sauce”
Weekly candle reversal/expansion:
1• HTF PD Array (direction)
2• Day of week (time of shift)
3• CISD (confirmation)
4• OLHC or OHLC for expansion (time)
Once this occurs, anticipate > hourly arrays to deliver price in the direction of expansion.
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My PDF series on building your own trading strategy using
#ICT
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Lesson 2: Market Structure (FREE)
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Creating simplified PDF’s for traders to use to build their own trading strategy suited for THEIR psychology and style.
Ideas are built upon
#ICT
foundations.
First one dropped today (FREE).
Lesson 1: Price and Liquidity
Don’t miss it! Link is in the bio.
$ES $NQ
$DXY $EURUSD
Analysis in telegram -
I will use Twitter to post charts and reviews. Short videos will be coming soon if there is a huge interest for them.
How to spot a possible trend reversal:
Failure to displace down is met with an equal or more aggressive move back UP!
Then the usual
#ICT
concepts apply.
Also called “The Box” setup.
Ideal on a downtrend? NO, but it had a defined risk/reward (R > or = 2+).
Time does not just refer to killzones.
It is the OHLC or OLHC with respect to each time frame.
Yearly
Quarterly
Monthly
Weekly
Daily
4H
1H
Each has a true open from which you can anchor your directional bias.
Once you understand this, it’ll become easier.
High probability framework (simple):
• HTF PO3 (month/quarter)
• OHLC/OLHC weekly candle
Which PD arrays have been hit?
• IPDA 20, 40, 60
• Identify liquidity on 4H
Economic Calendar
• Which days are likely to give you expansion?
• Trade the expansion days only
Not a play I would recommend but the model is there 👀
Run liquidity ✅
Displacement ✅
Break structure ✅
Imbalance + OB ✅
FVG/OB entry ✅
Target 🎯-> swing high (if confident, can 🎯 premium of the current array)
NEW VISUAL PDF guides are being built out in
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It will cover all of the foundations needed to build out your model.
You can find them under the eduction section under "trading models".
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How everyone thinks about liquidity:
• High resistance vs Low resistance
• External vs Internal
• Sellside vs buyside
• Discount vs Premium
What I also add (that you might miss):
• COT
• IPDA
• Economic Calendar
• Weekly Candle Direction
• Time of engagement
If you struggled to see the move this week, then this new series is for you.
A 5 part mini series on HTF analysis is being released over the next 2 weeks.
Part 1 drops tomorrow at 12PM EST.
Don't miss it.
Here are 6 areas I would focus on if I were to build a trading model using ICT/SMC concepts:
→ HOW price moves
→ WHEN price likes to move
→ Market structure elements
→ Rules of engagement
→ Consistent RR objectives
→ Narrative
What are yours?
New FREE PDF on and INTRO TO DIVERGENCE now uploaded to the discord!
Check under the channel ICT-BASICS to view all of the PDF’s.
Link is in the bio ⬆️
One of my BIG goals this year is to help create more LIVE Account Traders
So far I have had the opportunity to help create 1 LIVE
This year my goal is to help create 10 more
All while I continue to level up myself
Only the first week in...
Most people (and traders) give up on their ambitions on the climb up.
Why?
Perception of the journey is skewed by what they see on social media.
EVERYONE goes through (varying) difficulty.
It’s how YOU respond to it that determines your next action.
Weeks PO3 underway so todays draw continues to be 3966 (the weeks open) and below (3900 -> weekly OB).
Bias and idea given last night in the telegram. Good move.
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Areas from where aggressive sells begin are the areas of re-accumulation for when price begins distributing back UP.
Today is a great example of trapped orderflow (shorts are caught offside from overnight trading/yesterday).
If you are finding it hard to read the current price action, the idea of inversion (flip, swap zone, etc) will help you avoid taking unnecessary trades and become more consistent on your ideas.
Here’s a mini 🧵 on how to use inversion.
Don’t get caught up on those m1 charts!
$NQ general look today:
-> Hits SSL
-> Re-accumulation
-> Reprices back into premium (SMT)
-> Re-distribution begins (slowly)
-> Target would be AM lows (offset distribution).
A BULLISH PD Array will always from in the exact same manner.
It all beings with an old discount low, which sets in motion a repeatable process for price action to complete.
A visual 🧵 and reminder of the foundations of how price creates these Arrays
The week for $NQ (OHLC on the 1H Chart)
• CISD occurred on Tuesday (first day of high impact news)
• Silver bullet for the week occurs yesterday (Wednesday)
• Today is just more continuation (NY AM reversal - news pushes price higher into a premium before the selloff)
My main conditions for each week when I look for a setup:
• price to engage a HTF PD Array
• economic calendar with weekly profile
• engage price Tues-Thurs in NY KZ
• 1-2 setups per week
• CoT data and macro overlay
• trade with trend
What do you look for?
@I_Am_The_ICT
simplified trading to the point where all you need is the:
Economic Calendar
Weekly Profile
Day of Week
Time of Day
CISD
Execution
When you feel like it’s becoming complicated, take a step back and come back to this process.
Why are pairs important in trading?
Today: $ES ❌ vs $NQ ✅
One may be more “efficient” at delivering price than the other on any given day.
Your job is to recognize this early on to capture your setups.
Missed $ES up top, didn’t get the area I wanted.
$ES
Keeping it simple [10 points]
3 drives up into premium inefficiency
LRLR to the downside
Hourly PD Array supports bearish order-flow.
Daily FVG fill below at 4566 if it continues into the PM session.
Have been very selective today, focusing on divergence w/ liquidity grabs:
$NQ mini divergence
-> reprice to discount
-> defined R
-> rejection block entry
Bonus: Volume Spike 😉 (incoming ICT volume haters gang)
THE VIDEO WILL BE OUT IN 1 HOUR
The model is broken into 3 parts to keep the durations shorter:
PART 1 (today): RECOGNIZING THE SETUP
PART 2 (next week): DETAILED CHECKLIST
PART 3 (TBA): ENGAGEMENT + LTF ENTRY
Review: PM Session
AM did provide a very deep discount short but in terms of a cleaner setup, PM session gave one with more confidence:
✅ run liquidity (up)
✅ BoS (down)
✅Displacement + FVG
✅ Structure to support
✅ SMT + OB + FVG entry
3780entry -> 🎯 AM low’s
Education post 🧠: Trends
What’s the monthly, weekly, daily trend?
🐂 -> dips are bought
🐻 -> rips are sold
Identify trend:
• wait for MSS going back into trend
• BoS with displacement
• FVG + OB entry
• 🎯 previous lows (recent, hourly, daily)
Keep it simple!
Key for this week:
Monday will provide us with the directional setup towards Thursday.
No red folder news Tuesday or Wednesday -> play the trend.
Thursday brings back the volatility (stop raids).
Be patient and let the setups develop tomorrow!
The market will always provide, the question is, will you be patient enough to wait for your shot?
$NQ PM session opportunity to play with the AM session trend.
Enters premium OB -> await for setup or take early.
Study Guide👁️
Weekly Profile: Consolidation
$ES
• Daily low divergence
• Thursday reversal
• Engage price after OB low is respected
Entry: BRK+, FVG, OTE
Target: original consolidation
Drawn out are the MT’s of each discount structure to understand when to engage.
Your job as a trader is to understand the HTF trend, and utilize liquidity to enter the trend on a LTF using SMC/ICT concepts.
I’ve created a series of detailed, FREE SIMPLIFIED SMC/ICT PDF’s for traders to use for their studies 👇🏽
If you want to understand turtle soups, always think in terms of PO3/AMD.
Hourly candle, last hour of the day.
News at close.
The lunch washout induced breakout shorts for news in after hours.
Educational Post: 🧠
GAPS
They act as true resistance or support once they have been passed through both ways and rejected!
See below ⬇️
@Raider_Trades
will have a video up on this shortly. Will share one it’s up!