in this video I'm going to review ICT breaker blocks and how this one specific setup helped me make $200,000 this past Friday so before we get into the actual trade setup let's talk about what a breaker block actually is now this is one of the more advanced ICT concepts because it requires knowledge of specific things so what actually is an ICT breaker block well first of all you have to understand what an order block is and how to identify a proper order block next thing we need to understand is liquidity so how to identify important liquidity and then the final piece is a market structure shift you know how to identify a proper market structure shift and this is why breakers are in my opinion some of the strongest ICT setups that you can possibly use but as I mentioned we need to understand all three of these we can't just come into the market start trading ICT breakers and expect success because you need to have an understanding of what every single one of these is now if you haven't you know studied on any of these specific topics check out my channel i've got a bunch i'll leave some links in the description but we have to be able to identify all of these things and what I see a lot of new traders do that are new to ICT is that they don't know how to identify the right levels so some of the levels that they're choosing might not really be an order block so let's talk about you know how I am able to identify a proper order block what I see a lot of traders do and you know what a proper order block is is essentially it's the last up close candle prior to a run lower so let's say if you got this price swing it's the last up close let's say there's an upclose candle in here it's the last uplo candle prior to a run lower now the problem is I see a lot of traders choosing levels that are in the middle of the swing point that they're determining as the order block and if it's not 100% clear where there's an actual swing point right you cannot say that that's an order block so the important thing is that you're actually identifying where the swing originates from and that is so important because an upclose candle that is created you know in the middle of a price swing it's very unlikely that that's even an order block and it's going to trade up to the actual level that created the price swing so being able to identify a proper order block is the first thing that you need to do when it comes to identifying what the breaker block is because if you can't identify the right order block you're going to be trading breakers that theoret the theoretically do not exist okay it's not a real order block and it doesn't create a real breaker block so that's one thing i will get into the chart examples in just a minute to to show you guys some examples next we need to identify liquidity so how to identify important liquidity and the easiest way that I can you know tell you guys is just focus on the higher time frame lows and highs so you might have previous weekly highs and lows so that's PW for previous weekly highs and lows previous daily highs and lows and previous session highs and lows let's just say we're going down okay this here there's possibly an order block inside of this price swing now we need to identify liquidity what liquidity is this market actually running out is it running out a previous weekly low or a previous weekly uh daily low or a previous session low now I'm drawing this uh anticipating that this is going to be a bullish breaker okay can I change the size of this no probably not let's see well just a rough rough drawing we'll get into the examples in just a second so we've identified the order block we've identified a high level or a higher time frame pool of liquidity that's been run out okay so we have sell stops being triggered the next thing we need is a market structure shift and the market structure shift is going to originate or it's going to be created where that order block is so this last swing point again very very important that you're identifying the right swing point if you're just picking some random up close candle in this leg lower that's not where the swing point is originating and that's where I see a lot of traders get this wrong they think that it's a breaker block but it's really not the real high probability breaker is where that swing point is created so this swing high prior to the long run on liquidity it needs to be visible you know if you have just this very small uh level here but this is a bigger swing okay don't use this level as the breaker all right you're not trying to use that very small level as a breaker you want to use a swing point that is extremely visible once we get back above that level that becomes the high pro higher probability trade okay because when it's inside the middle of a swing point it's it's highly likely that you know it's it possibly might fail and this is where some people say "Oh breakers don't work." Well you are you trading them properly and are you identifying them properly so once we have the swing point once we have right that order block once we have the previous weekly low or previous daily low uh sorry this should be previous daily low previous session low my apologies so previous low is being ran out then we're waiting for a market structure shift so the market structure shift will occur when we get a closure back above this high now we don't want to just go long as soon as it takes out that high because what happens if we go do that and then it just it doesn't actually close above that level so that's what we're looking for we're looking for a closure above that swing point now that creates a market structure shift and now what does this order block become this order block now becomes the breaker all right all right so now that we understand what the ICT breaker block is and before I get into the actual trade setup if you want to learn more about all the setups that I use where to place your stop-loss how to execute these specific trades make sure you check out my ultimate guide to trading executions I'll leave a link in the description now unfortunately I did not get the actual live execution of this you guys know and as I mentioned in my last video I'm trading for a living i'm not trading uh for YouTube okay so there's some days where I just don't get all of my screenshots sometimes I'm not recording in OBS for my actual trade executions but I will show you guys my dashboard of the Apex accounts and the actual results of the specific trade so first thing that we need to understand is what is the actual swing point all right and this was an actual 15minute trade setup so I'm going to identify what the swing point is okay it needs to create an impulse leg so the impulse leg is very clear here okay do we have this last up close candle prior to the run on liquidity all right this candle in here becomes the breaker now I've seen way too many people as they're trying to find breakers inside of a specific price swing a lot of times they'll just pick like like this one for example they'll say this is you know this is possibly a breaker hold on one second let me just draw this out they'll say this is the breaker without realizing like this little run in here is not really like an impulse leg it didn't really run higher visibly because if I just zoomed out here right this is just like one price leg for me this one run lower is just one price leg for me that does not you know this is not in my opinion a high probability swing point because this is just like a very small blip on the radar it needs to be very very visible you see the difference between this swing here versus the one I drew out it's much cleaner it's visible you can see where the impulse is this here is just continuation inside of this run lower okay now when we get up here I would say that this swing point makes more sense let's say if I drew uh all of these consecutive closed candles in here I would use this level as a breaker much more so than this very tiny level in here okay because this is a visible swing right we see a you know based over time right this is just a very small run higher i'm not using that as a breaker okay and you guys can see that it's not really respecting that level because that's not really a swing point to me the swing has to be visible as I drew out in here right it's got to be visible when I look for swing points it should be visible it should not just be this little up close candle inside of that price swing okay and you guys can even see here after we get above that level it actually is respected it doesn't need to trade lower through that because this is an actual swing okay this is not really a swing if I were to turn my candlestick chart to a line chart you know this specific run lower would just be like this you know you wouldn't even really see there would be like very small jagged edges but what you're looking for is you're looking for a actual swing point an actual run higher first okay it's got to run higher and it has to be obvious it's got to be an obvious run higher to your eyes and if you're you know straining your eyes trying to find that run it doesn't exist okay you're not trying to fabricate and um torture the data for it to you know fit your narrative this an obvious swing point to me because we displace lower very quickly now we have the swing point okay the next thing we need to look for is liquidity so this is Tuesday's low right we've also taken Wednesday's low and we've also taken Thursday's low and this is on a Friday so I'm also blending the day of the week oh sorry this is Thursday's low so I'm also blending day of the week because I'm expecting a possible TGIF setup right we've been kind of sideways but after taking out all this sellside liquidity okay now what we're looking for is displacement and a market structure shift so this is a real displacement higher we get a market structure shift not only we get two market structure shifts so we've run out lots of sellside liquidity this is London session lows we've taken out London session lows we've taken out Thursday's low we've taken out Wednesday's low we've taken out Tuesday's low so all of those traders that are trying to get short at the end of the week are now going to be trapped inside of this market so anybody that is shorting at the lows is now going to be trapped off sides right so when they run that market above that level and we get a closure above that level that becomes our market structure shift so on this specific candle here okay this specific candle this one right here creates the market structure shift because we get the closure and a lot of times when you're trading breakers you want to wait for the closure you don't want to see it just punch above that level and then turn around because that's not really a high probability level if anything it it might be running out that high to go lower okay so we want to wait for the candle closure once we get a closure through that order block it now becomes a bullish breaker okay so going back to everything that we need to create the breaker you have to understand all of these things before you understand what the breaker is you can't just dive into the breaker without understanding what an order block is without understanding what liquidity is without understanding what market structure shifts are this is why breaker blocks are more complex but they incorporate three different aspects of your trading analysis and this is why it's so powerful because it's not just one you're not just trading an order block you're not just trading liquidity you're not just trading a market structure shift it's combining all of those concepts into one specific setup and these setups don't occur that often because it it has confluence around it it has all of these things and that's why they're high probability okay it's not just a singular setup it's narrative it this this one specific setup is actually giving you the narrative that you need all right so once we get the closure back above here now we can identify that this level after we've broken this high or even this high let's use this high for example because that's where the order block actually originated all right so a closure back above this level creates a market structure shift once we get the market structure shift literally anytime it hits that level is a good time to buy it and now you're putting your stop loss where your stop loss should go probably at the low of the breaker block okay so you're putting your stop loss here give yourself a little bit of room for spread but literally if you buy it anytime it's touching that breaker block okay oh I put I used the wrong tool we're going long anytime you buy that level as it's hitting the breaker block is a good time to buy it so anytime it's touching that level you know giving yourself a decent amount of room for your stop loss you're giving yourself a little bit more room to account for any spread or slippage and you guys can notice you know it's touched that level three times so the first trade that I took on Friday actually ended up as a break even so I was looking at this candle that didn't have a wick and I actually entered on this candle here so as it was trading here I entered on this candle i got a nice response from here but you guys can see that it traded above this candle that doesn't have a wick and then it came back down and then my second entry was here right during power hour and really all I'm looking for is what an opposing liquidity point that I can exit so we have Asian range highs that haven't been taken out so this is the perfect culmination of a trade setup on a Friday all right breaking this down to a lower time frame now this can be used on any time frame okay let's say you're trading the monthly time frame and this is our pre-month consolidation we trade down and then towards the end of the month we might get a daily breaker all right to to close the end of the month taking out the monthly liquidity that's if we're bullish okay so it's really about how you frame that context maybe on the monthly time frame it's taking out previous weekly lows or highs and then you're trying to position yourself after this market structure shift okay so this is really a textbook breaker setup so again quickly running through what we need to be able to identify is a proper swing point that's how you're going to identify an actual order block and I've seen way too many times people are picking like this they might pick this as an order block but this is not like a visible swing to me that to me is not a high probability order block i need to be able to see a visible swing point so I need to be able to see a run lower and then an actual rise in price and then a drop off it and needs to actually retrace pretty hard against that prevailing uh trend lower all right so just like my last couple videos I've been going over my dashboard at Apex Trader Funding you guys can see here on Friday I made roughly $10,000 on every single Apex account that's 200K and then roughly $2,300 i'm not sure exactly what happened with this account i made a little bit more at Tradeify so that puts me at r over $210,000 in one specific day and to start the week I was sitting at roughly $21,000 in balance so this specific week alone I made over 200k and added that to the P&L at these Apex accounts you guys can see here on the right hand side that these are all my P&Ls they match what I have in my balance and they match in here which is my actual live Ninja Trader dashboard you guys can see here $211,000 in each of these accounts again they all started at 150K 39 trading days ago so I need to be able to trade for roughly three more weeks to be able to withdraw all of these profits right now I can only withdraw 2750 so 2,750 per account per payout period and then on the final payout I'm able to get uncapped payouts and withdraw the rest now these trade setups are really just one part of my entire system and if you want to learn about all the lessons I've learned over my past 14 years in the markets make sure you check out this video right here and as always thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next