I'm going to show you guys a checklist for one of the A+ ICT models that I use the criteria for it is that we find a daily SL weekly bias from there we go down to a lower time frame and hunt for setups in the direction of that dailyweekly bias I'm also going to show you guys from my experience of trading ICT for a year what specific conditions to avoid this is the most important part yet by 99% of the videos on YouTube this part gets left out because a lot of people don't have the experience to understand when it plays out versus when it doesn't we're going to dive into that in this video before we get started all credit goes to my mentor the Inner Circle Trader on YouTube if you want to study his 2022 mentorship that's the source from which I've learned all this stuff that I'm teaching you guys here so let's dive into how to find daily and weekly bias for this model because that is the first step of the checklist if you want a more in-depth video on draw liquidity I do have one about three weeks ago if you click on the profile for my YouTube you'll find how to find draw on liquidity you can check that out afterwards if you are interested so you'll notice on the weekly time frame price took out an old low this is sells side liquidity it's expanded higher okay it's expanded away from that Old low and we have this engineer liquidity above meaning there's a cluster of highs above so we have this high this high and this high that price is kind of displacing towards and along the way it's disrespecting bearish PD arrays so we do have a volume imbalance right here if price was in a sell program meaning when I say sell program I mean smart money short and price is just continuing to offer lower prices it's in a sell-side delivery program when it's in a sell-side delivery program price is returning to things like volume imbalances which we have here it's also returning to bearish Breakers and fair value gaps and it's retesting them as resistance notice how here it's not doing that it's pulling up it's not heading lower it's actually negating those bearish pdas and just moving away from them so the fact that it's disrespecting some of these bearish PD arays on the left side of the chart and it's delivering from the old low down here meaning smart money took out ret Tails sell stops and it's expanded away from that disrespecting the bearish PD Ray so when price comes back down into here on the daily time frame and weekly time frame I'm noticing okay we have the engineer liquidity above here right we have this old high that it's gotten really close to and this entire drop down I'm looking to see does price take out a sell-side liquidity level because really this entire retrace back down was just to take out this old low so on The Daily or weekly time frame I'm looking to see okay does price expand beneath this old low or do we start to reverse back higher so from the weekly time frame I'm marking out this previous low you could also Mark out PD Rays on this time frame so if you look at this last up Clos candle in here this is a mitigation block you notice that price traded down to the low end that and then start to expand off of that why is it a mitigation block not going to dive too deep into this but basically price made a high a low a higher high and then a higher low compared to that low and then it expanded higher that makes a mitigation block the last up Clos candle or the consecutive upclose candles the last up Clos candles The Sweet Spot the consecutive upclose candles is the mitigation block so you can Mark out PD Rays on the weekly or daily time frame I my focus for this model is looking at liquidity first so liquidity is the most important just like we talked about over here it was delivering from the liquidity and then it started to expand higher when it comes back down to internal liquidity since I believe that price is in a buy program this is an area where I can start the to look for a reversal at so when price takes out this old low on the weekly I'm dropping down into a daily and I want to see if we get a shift in Market structure higher I want to see if order flow is continuing to prove after it takes out the sell stops that prices switch from sell to buy program so on The Daily time frame we have this swing high right in here what does price do it displaces past this high so the same model that I'm going to be looking at on the higher time frame we're looking at on the lower time frame it's a completely fractal checklist the same thing that we're looking on the daily right is going to appear on the lower time frame I'm going to show you guys specifically where to look for it though so stay tuned on the weekly we took out this old low another thing that we could add if you look at the NASDAQ and you look at the weekly time frame if we Zoom back out to there another thing you could look for is smt Divergence so a es took out this previous low over here if you look at the NQ price chart NQ is all the way up here so we have a cracking correlation between correlated assets these usually move together since es took out the cell side and it started to expand away from it right and NQ didn't that's more Confluence to suggest potential higher prices but what we want to wait for is a shift in Market structure which we do get right here so we have this previous high right here this gets taken out price goes lower and then expands higher so the next thing that I'm looking for is a fair value Gap within this price leg so after it takes out the sell side or the old low and price starts to expand higher and it breaks through a previous lower high so to put it in a simple terms price created a low high lower low when price creates that higher high before it takes out this previous high or within that price leg I'm looking for a fair value Gap If it creates this this is a signature that indicates to me that smart money's going to take price higher so notice what has happened here it took out the old low it's expanded higher taking out this previous High creating a market structure shift while it did that it created this big imbalance When I See This imbalance to me what it means is that this move up was institutionally sponsored meaning smart money bought the sell stops where do they need to take it if they have bought from sellers at a lower price they need to take it to buyers at a higher price why so they could sell to buyers at a higher price if they're buying from sellers low right to put it simply they need to sell to buyers high right that's the market efficiency Paradigm right retail Traders are getting trap short down here smart money's buying from those retail Traders selling they're taking it higher to sell to retail Traders buying at a higher price so you may say well how do you find a bias before it does all of these green days higher will you just apply the same logic that I just talked about and go down to a 4-Hour charge that's how you come up with bias without having to use the daily or weekly use that same logic what did price do took out sell stops created a market structure shift higher and created a fair value Gap right the same logic and we don't have to wait for all the way up here so why do I care about daily and weekly then damn well because the daily and week right gives me a higher time frame bias so though I could have got long in here using that same ideology right and it Targets this high for the first level of buy stops if we ignore that or not even ignore it let's just say that we waited for it to break Above This high now on The Daily it indicates even higher because it indicates these highs whereas the 4-Hour time frame just indicated this previous high right here hopefully that makes sense before we do continue if you guys would like to see more content from me I do have a Discord which will be the first link down below we've been bullish on the S&P 500 in the NASDAQ since late October just continuing to look for higher prices in this Futures tab so if you guys are interested in seeing that my Discord is the first link down below also intraday I Do cover ICT setups right here was one from earlier today on the NASDAQ at 3:34 p.m. seeing if price can make a run for the buy stops now after just returning to internal liquidity it created a market structure shift with a fair value yet so we were looking for higher prices in here and you can see later it did start to EXP span for that we did take one loss and one win in the PM session but then there was a nice short setup in the AM session so I was looking for lower prices based off of the same lower time frame model that we just talked about right price created a market structure shift fair value Gap price was likely to aim for that liquidity lower and those are some trades that I did take in the AM session based off of that logic if you guys are interested in that check out the Discord down below so now we're going to go ahead after November 2nd right we have the bias that price price is going to want to trade up into these highs cuz that's where buy side liquidity rest and if smart money's long that's where they're going to want to take price we had the run on sell side liquidity Market structure shift on The Daily with a bullish fair value Gap now it's likely to expand for here I'm also going to go over what to do after it hits that Target so stay tuned so this is what the lower time frame model checklist looks like we're looking for 2022 models in the direction of that bias which is liquidity taken a market structure shift with a fair value GS that being said let's Di into price action after November 2nd cuz that's when we had the bias that price is going to start targeting higher prices so if I'm looking at a chart live and I see this candle right here I already have these signals to indicate that price is likely to trade up to here now what I'm doing is I'm scaling down into a lower time frame now in my opinion it does not matter as much to look for PD arrays along the way here you absolutely could you absolutely could look for 4our fair value gaps 4 Hour order blocks right 1 hour order blocks 1 hour fair value gaps for this model you're specifically looking for liquidity to be taken along the way and then Target the buy side above so there was no model on Friday but if we do skip ahead to the sixth which is Monday we're still targeting that high up there what I'm looking to do is I'm marking to I'm looking to Mark out liquidity pools so on the hourly time frame we have this old low if price takes out that old low this is an area on the lower time frame where I will hunt for this signature a market structure shift with a fair value Gap so we have that liquidity marked out we can now go down to a lower time frame using the minute time frame here I trade the New York session this will work on any session so if we skip this ahead price is trading down right takes out an old low I'm looking for expansion higher creating a market structure shift with a fair value Gap so we have a market structure shift right here price has traded higher took out this short-term High over here but also we do have this little swing high in place right here so this would be the market structure Shift level cuz it has a lower high to the left and a lower high to the right of that in that price leg higher I'm looking for a fair value Gap to get created we have the fair value Gap back down here so if price were to return back into any fair value Gap in this price leg from this swing low to this swing high that created the market structure shift I would long that fair value G where can I Target I'm looking to Target buy side above so I could either look on the one minute and Target the buy side here or I could trade in the direction of that higher time frame bias and I could look on a higher time frame such as a 15-minute and I could Target liquidity above here just if you want to Target lwh hang fruit targets and you're new the best thing to do is just Target some of the one minute or 5 minute liquidity pulls above the market price so when price trades higher right I'm waiting for price to drop back down lower we do have this bullish fair value Gap right here you could long this but with this model when price takes out the sell side this is the sell side liquidity when price takes it out and then price creates the market structure shift higher the safest stop is going to be at the swing low so some of the conditions to avoid is when price is all the way up here don't long that and then just have your stop right down here this would be an example of a condition to avoid if price is just consolidating after creating that market structure shift you want to make sure that you have high enough RR to have your stop all the way down at this swing low so let's just say that you entered right here I'm not going to say that you would have got a perfect entry holding or waiting for it to return back into that fair value Gap so we would enter in this bullish fair value Gap right here and then we would be targeting the liquidity above so we have these relative equal highs right here that would be a lwh hang fruit Target because they're relatively close to each other this is a 1 to 1.5 RR trade in the strategy that I use it is at least a 1 to 1.5 RR trade every single time it could be as high as a 1 to five so I just cannot go lower than a 1 to 1.5 if we let this play out from here price Consolidated it got very close to the previous low remember that is where our stop is supposed to be at that previous low and then price starts to expand higher and takes out the buy stops so really right here we just had a extremely deep retrace on stops some people will have their stop right beneath the fair value Gap there are certain conditions where that's okay where you can have your stop beneath there in a strong Market but just to be safe have it at the previous swing low so they return it all the way back down this is a rejection block this is a PD array reversed in then it expanded much higher so that would be a plus 1.5 hour trade remember we're filtering out any type of bearish setup in here so some people may be looking at this as a bearish 2022 model when it returns to a fair value Gap we are only looking for 2022 models in the direction of that higher time frame bias we created the market structure shift here had a bullish fair value Gap and we had relative equal highs above the market price that's a high probability draw in liquidity zooming back out to the higher time frame this is where the liquidity got purged took out the sell side and I want to see if it creates a market structure shift up higher which it does post Market this is 4 P.M it creates a market structure shift by breaking through this previous high in here in that price leg we're looking for a fair value Gap has it right there so now what is the likely draw on liquidity since we're expecting price to trade higher into there and it took out liquidity created a market structure shift higher I'm looking for price to start targeting buy stops so since we have a higher time frame bullish bias that price is trading up to here when price takes out sell side liquidity creates a market structure shift this is enough for me to start targeting old highs so this will be the draw in liquidity above now so this is at 9:30 open it has returned back down into a discount of the range I don't really use premium and discount for my specific model using the 2022 mentorship but when price returns back into this fair value gap down here want to have our stop at the swing low all the way down here and we're targeting the buy stops Above So this previous high right here would be the Target and we're buying when it returns into that fair value Gap now you could look for lower time frame setups in here for this example I'm just using a 15-minute time frame it's taking out liquidity created a market structure shift right we have the swing high in place right here and it has the fair value Gap right there so when price returns back into it this scenario where it's likely to act as support and then start to expand higher so if we let this play out from here see that it expanded straight for the buy stops so you could hold for higher Targets in here you could draw some standard deviations on this which I will do a future video on but just to have a lwh hang for Target you're aiming for the buy side above the market which is the closest to the market price so we have a 1.9 R trade right here we have these relative equal highs and you can see price displaces straight for that skipping ahead to the next day price is above this previous High it returns back down it takes out sells side liquidity creates a market structure shift higher with a bullish fair value Gap so it takes out this previous swing high in here this would be the market structure shift and it has the fair value gaps this is a high probability model but it's not within the New York session so I would not have traded this but the target would be the buy side above we let this play out expand straight for the buy side now when price starts to pull back down lower and it starts consolidating right or it starts trading around the 50% point this is where I start to avoid certain conditions because I will not take a long setup now that it took out buy side and it's back to equilibrium so when it does that and it returns back to equilibrium these are conditions where I just avoid I do not trade in here until it either takes out the sell side liquidity here right or starts to expand higher away from that so when price take this is something you want to write down your notes when price takes out a level of buy side like that and then it returns back to equilibrium I either wait for it to take out all the sell side below or expand back towards this previous High to start looking for setups again so I either needed price to do two of those things and it returned back down to the sell stops took out that previous low so now it can start to hunt for lower time frame setups again again we're looking for a market structure shift so if price breaks through this previous high in here with a fair value Gap that'd be enough for me to be bullish and start targeting buy side above so price took out the sell side liquidity on the 1 minute time frame I'm looking for a market structure shift with a fair value Gap we have the fair value Gap right here I'm waiting for a market structure shift so if we skip this ahead a little bit see price just consolidating once it breaks through this previous High that's enough for me to be bullish so as price is retracing back down right this would be an area to Long why is this an area to long because it took out sell stops on the higher time frame created a market structure shift right here in that price leg we have a fair value Gap so at this point I don't really care to long the fair value gap for me it doesn't necessarily have to return to the fair value Gap I just need to be able to Target the buy stops above right or old highs above and have good RR right so if I enter long right here I can either Target this previous high or this previous one since they are relatively close to each other I'm going to think that it's going to take out both of the highs so you can see that does take out the buy side this was a 1.66 r trade so zooming out from the 1 hour time frame it engineered all this sell side liquidity came back down took it all out created a bullish 2022 model price created a shift in Market structure we had a bullish fair value Gap right here also created another break of structure higher and created a fair value Gap this would be a beautiful hourly time frame long entering in on this hourly fair value Gap putting your stop beneath this previous low and we're using the same checklist that we just talked about liquidity purged Market structure shift with a fair value Gap targeting buy stops so we have this previous high right here it's about a 1 to 2.5 R trade if you hold for the external high right here it's about a 1 to three RR trade now Dan what happens once it reaches that daily bias Target well there's a few things that could happen it could consolidate reverse or expand higher we wait for two of those things either it reverses or it expands through that previous high if it consolidates I do nothing so I want to see what it does here it expands much higher if it expands through this previous highway speed it shows me that smart money did not want to sell to the buy stops above here cuz there's buy stops above old highs and rather that the draw in liquidity is T is higher so draw in liquidity Target is higher from there so since price just expanded straight above it well it shows me that smart money did not sell to the buyers above here so which liquidity is likely to be next where we have the buy stops above these two previous highs right here so this is relative equal highs so I'm thinking going into the next days that okay the daily is likely to expand towards these highs now I can go onto a 1 hour time frame in here and look for more bullish setups along on the way we're not going to do that cuz we just covered a bunch of examples but if I skip price ahead you can see that it ends up trading into this previous high right in here so that's how I utilize the higher time frame and then scale down into the lower time frame for setups so now let's dive into conditions to avoid and the first one is before high impact news so if we look at today today is Tuesday November 28th we had high impact news at 10: a.m. so red folder News you can go to forexfactory.com I was not trading before 10:00 a.m. I just kind of like to wait for the volatility settle this is for this specific model that I use right there are multiple models that I use but this is an expansion model and I do not like to trade before high impact news because sometimes it could do one more run on stops it just makes it lower probability for this specific model in my experience another thing when price returns back to 50% and starts consolidating these are conditions that I avoid another thing when it's perfectly creating engineer liquidity on both sides of the market those are also conditions I avoid let's look at some examples of what that looks like right here we have this previous old high this is live price action in the NASDAQ price pulled up higher and it returned back to equilibrium so when price does this when price takes out buy side liquidity and it returns back to equilibrium right here just like I talked about earlier in the video as price is at equilibrium in here I am not looking too long or I'm not looking to short because it's return equilibrium and it's delivering from buy side I don't know from here if they're going to Target sell stops or if price is going to pull back up for an old high so you'd be avoiding price action in here and it's still doing that it's still just consolidating at 50% so this is an expansion model this is not a consolidation model there's other models for consolidation which I could dive into in the future but for this model you'd be avoiding all of this price action cuz all it's doing is just consolidating around 50% now if we zoom in up here it return back to 50% once it expands away from 50% and start to reach for this previous high in here that's enough for me to into the lower time frame and start hunting for setups so if we dive into a lower time frame from here I'm either waiting for price to expand far away from that equilibrium and start reaching for that previous high or take out all the sell side below what does it do it expands away from equilibrium and reaches for this previous high so I can go down to a 5-minute time frame and now I'm looking for a 2022 model too long in here so in the 5-minute time frame price came back down took out sell side liquidity if we go down into a lower time frame to look for fair value gaps you go down to a 2minute minute 1 minute 3 minute if we go down to a 1 minute you have a fair value Gap right in here so this is a little bullish fair value Gap and price created the market structure shift by breaking Above This previous high so this will be enough for me to long and hold for that higher time frame draw liquidity Target so we have the buy stops above here right if we extend that out that is likely where price is headed because it's moved away from equilibrium right and it's expanding back for this previous high so that's enough for it to indicate to me that's where it wants to go on a one minute right created the market structure shift higher created a bullish fair value Gap in that price leg what I'm going to do now is I'm going to put my stop beneath this previous low I'm going to long the fair value Gap now my RR I could enter at this previous High because my RR up to that high would be a 1 to three about so if we let this play out from here I believe at 9:30 open it starts to expand much higher and a rip straight for that buy side so that's what you could do when you're avoiding certain conditions right when it's consolidating at equilibrium if it expands away from it and reaches for this previous high with speed that's enough for me to be bullish for that high as long as it's around 50% though I'm not looking to trade unless it either does that expands higher reaching for that previous high or it takes out the sell side liquidity down here so the last one is when there is perfect engineer liquidity on both sides of the market that's exactly what's going on right now on the NASDAQ on the 1 hour chart so for this specific model I would not be trading this there's two things that it's doing it's consolidating at equilibrium around equilibrium and it's also clustering a bunch of highs close together right here so we have all of these highs above and then we have all of these lows clustered below so you don't know which one smart money is going to reach for first so you're either waiting for the two things that I talked about you're either waiting for it to completely take out all of this sell side liquidity right or you're waiting for it to expand much higher so as long as it's between this range right this is not high probability conditions for this specific model that's going to be it for this video hopefully you guys found this insightful and I will catch you guys next time