in this video I'm going to teach you everything there is to know about ICT in less than 2 hours this is going to be a full course teaching you everything from Market structure to time and Price Market maker models and everything in between my name is Jesse and in the last few years I have went from blowing accounts and losing money to making life-changing money and being able to scale past $100,000 per month as a day trader when it comes to learning ICT there is so much over complicated jargon and most of it really doesn't even matter so what I did was I put together what actually matters into this video and I'm going to teach it to you all here right now for free this is education that people charge money for but I'm giving to you right now all for free so please make sure to pay close attention put away your phone and take notes I'm going to go over everything there is for you to learn ICT so let's go ahead and hop on a chart this video is going to piece together everything that you've learned about ICT into a easy to follow and simple strategy that you can actually use in order to trade because as with ICT as you can see there is a lot we're going to be going over everything from Market structure fair value gaps liquidity order blocks breaker blocks time and price daily bias Market maker models smt Divergence and then how to put it all together so this is going to be a long video guys this is going to replace most of the education that these guys are you know selling as a course they just make it more over complicated and long than it needs to be and while ICT is valuable 80% of what you learn going through all the content you'll never use so what I've done is taken everything that I've learned over the last couple years and stuff that I've used to make over seven figures and put it into an easy to digest actionable free course so let's go ahead and get started the first thing we're going to talk about is structure okay so of course what is structure why do we use it and how do we use it so some of you guys are going to already know this that's fine feel free to move forward in the video but I challenge you to watch this because I guarantee there's something that you may have thought you knew but you actually don't so what is market structure many of you know this but it is just highs andow lows in the market okay now the key is knowing which highs and lows to select and which highs and lows to pay attention to you have to have a practical method of finding them otherwise you're going to be paying attention to every single high or low on the chart now why is Market structure important well Market structure is going to be the foundation of your analysis okay everything that you use is going to be used in context of Market structure this is going to be involved in every single Concept in some way or form and most people still some do it completely wrong you see if you're just using candle closes or you're just using you know which highs and lows are being made to map Market structure I can go ahead and guarantee you that your trading will be very very hard and you're going to have low probability setups so first I want to talk about a concept called manipulation and displacement now this is what really made trading click for me because everything that you're doing with ICT revolves around one thing right that is that we are trying to figure out where smart money is going to trade so in a Range if we have Market Market structure forming okay and then we want to determine which way that the market is actually going to move it's not going to be just every time a new high or low is made okay it's whenever the market is taking out liquidity right the whole idea of being an ICT Trader or a smart money Trader is learning to trade with the smart money so let's just say smart money wants to get active in the market right here well smart money is going to need a lot of liquidity in order to get active so what they will do is they will manipulate the market to where stop losses are usually under the low of a range or a very clean low often times with key levels like fair value gaps below it or breaker blocks or order blocks we're going to get into that later in the video but they're going to manipulate price to an area where there's liquidity so if the market just barely Taps into an old low right if it barely Taps into it it doesn't close or even if it closes a candle just beyond it but it doesn't displace it doesn't create any fair value gaps it doesn't create a forceful push through the low not just to it but through the low or the high and then it starts to reverse that is manipulation anytime we see manipulation we expect the market to move in the opposite direction because if the market is being manipulated right we all know that the markets are manipulated we can all agree on that whether or not you agree with all of the ICT stuff but if markets are manipulated then we're going to want to fade the manipulation or trade against it so if we deem a price leg manipulation what we're going to do is look for a reversal to the opposing liquidity now let's just say if the market manipulates a low or a high and then we start displacing right displacing means exactly the definition of the word just displacing a very big energetic push through structure so let's say if the market pushes through structure it's going to create fair value gaps and once the market returns those fair value gaps we can expect it to continue as long as the market is displacing so understanding what structure the market is manipulating and what structure is being displaced gives you everything you need to know in terms of directional bias now this is also known as internal range liquidity to external and we're going to talk about that later in the daily bias part of this video and just going to go ahead and throw this out there if I say a term that you don't know go ahead and rest assured because it will be covered in this video I'm going to go over everything a toz that you need in order to trade profitably with ICT so to review manipulation legs fail to displace or push rapidly Beyond structure and displacement legs well they displace or push rapidly through structure if you get manipulation you're going to look for reversal so notice right here the market pushed up through a high and we did not form any fair value gaps we didn't get a real energetic push and what happened the market reversed now notice the reaction with this low the market displaced through it creating a fair value Gap right there and it continued right the market whenever it displaces it's going to continue okay until we get manipulation like we got right here and then what happens the market reverses not only do we get manipulation but we got displacement see how we created a fair value Gap right there so you can pair these two concepts together to get extremely high prob ability trades and understand which way the Market's going I mean just look how consistently this works we get displacement we create a fair value Gap boom displacement we create a fair value Gap the market does what continues at least through that next high that's all you're looking for now as soon as the market starts manipulating like it did right here didn't form a fair value Gap we can then expect a possible reversal now you can go on Lower time frames and view this little bit of price action and what you're going to see is a displacement to the downside on the lower time frames right now this is how you're going to use structure to get bias and to confirm other ideas because at the end of the day that's really our job as ICT Traders or really any kind of trading is you have you know your key level which You're Expecting as support or resistance and then you're using some kind of confirmation method our confirmation method is going to be manipulation plus displacement now if you just use one of the other it's lower probability and at the end of the day we want to make sure that we're taking the highest probability setups and not only are we going to pair manipulation and displacement together we're going to pair it with other concept like fair value gaps time and price and numerous other things that we're going to talk about in this video to get the highest probability than when used alone now this is where most ICT Traders struggle is because they know all these Concepts but they don't know how to put it together and that is what inspired me to put this video together so you just have the one video to kind of finish everything off and to put everything that you've learned together if you want to download this entire board all for free that way you have all of the examples you have the Mind map all of the ebooks and everything then go ahead and click the link down in the description and download it right now for free next we're going to talk about a concept called impulse structure impulse structure is structure that forms with displacement and fair value gaps now I want you to go ahead and repeat after me not all structure is created equally okay if you notice in this example over here notice how the market has these big displacement legs we're going to imagine there's a fair value Gap here there's a displacement we push rapidly through a low we're going to imagine there's another fair value Gap there but then look at this structure right here like the Market's making higher highs but it's not very rapid it's not really pushing through so that is manipulation and we're not going to even consider that structure in fact the only structure you're going to consider is going to be the current impulse because that tells you what the market is reaching for when the market is displacing and pushing forcefully it is reaching for something and when the market is manipulating and it's not pushing forcefully it's usually just grabbing stop losses only to reverse okay so this red right here this is the higher time frame now the green is going to be what the lower time frame looks like on every retracement into an Impulse so we have impulse right here creating a fair value Gap we're just going to imagine there's a big fair value Gap the Market's pushing into and then on the lower time frame you're going to use this impulse structure paired with other Concepts we're going to talk about to dictate when the market is likely to reverse and continue on the impulse because like we talked about if the market impulses right if this Market impulses right here whenever we come down we're expecting it to do that again we're expecting to to continue because remember displacement equals continuation so if we know that we can use the lower time frames and use things like Market maker models and internal and external range liquidity to get daily bias and find trade setups but the foundation of all of this is understanding manipulation and displacement along with impulse structure so always remember that higher time frame impulses equal many lower time frame impulses okay it's going to be a lot of noise and a lot of structure on that lower time frame that's why it's important you always use it in context of what the higher time frame is telling you okay extremely extremely important now I want you to not even pay attention to any structure that isn't manipulation versus displacement or viewed as an Impulse so for example the impulses here would be this right and then this none of this right none of this has even paid attention to you're in fact just looking to sell above the highs with confirmations that we're going to talk about later in the putting it all together part of this video but you're going to be just looking to sell above highs since the overall impulse is bearish now we're going to use another tool called premium discount to determine where the market is likely to reverse we're going to go over that in just a second but I want you to always remember that all Trends come to an end and the way that we're going to gauge when impulses are likely to retrace or likely to expand is going to be a mix of premium and discount and then something called internal and external range liquidity so I want you to think about this if trading is a business then candles are your product now if you have a product do you want to sell it for a premium or do you want to sell it for a discount obviously you want to sell it for a premium now if you want to buy your product do you want to buy it for premium pricing or do you want to buy it for a discount account pretty obvious right but people don't think about this when they're trading because they're impulsive so I want you to always take out your FIB tool and Mark out your impulse structure and pay attention to that 0.5 value the settings you're going to need in order to do this are found right here and this is in trading view you just go to the FIB retracement tool and then you just Mark these settings and what that's going to give you is a tool that looks like this it's just drawing the midpoint of a range anything below that is a discount that's where you'd look to buy if the range is bullish and anything above it is a premium now just because we have premium and discount doesn't mean it's always going to be sell sell sell from premium or buy and discount you have to use the context right notice how the market is bullish right the Market's moving up so we're looking to buy in a discount and if you were scalping selling anywhere down here you would be very weary to do so once we get closer to that midpoint because again remember every Trend comes to an end and using premium discount gives us a high probability of being able to determine where that Trend will come to an end all right so let's go ahead and talk about fair value gaps so we're going to talk about what they are why we use them and we're going to go over a simple and easy to use strategy because most of what you've learned is way over complicated and unnecessary first off a fair value Gap is just a three candle formation with an expansive middle candle causing a gap between the Wicks of CLE one and candle three so in this example we'd have candle one right then we'd have candle two and candle three now notice this middle expansive candle leaves a gap between this Wick of candle one and this Wick of candle two or I'm sorry candle three same right here candle one two candle three and there's a gap it's just the Gap that that big expansion leaves now we expect the Market to return to this level and if in context of impulse structure we expect it to move up and we can use lower time frames to confirm this that's where we're going to get into Market maker models earlier but right now just focus on impulse structure and fair value gaps I want you to remember that fair value gaps show displacement this is a reoccurring term you're going to hear me use and if you've been a part of my audience for any amount of time you know that displacement is a big part of my trading and the reason that I think it's so important is because it eliminates half of the noise and it's going to eliminate half of the bad trades that you take I mean just think if you were able to eliminate even half of the stupid mistakes you make as a Trader how much more profitable would you be you're welcome for your daily dose of pain but you need to think like that because that is what trading is at the end of the day is just eliminating errors more so than trying to add on you know higher profits or higher returns it's always about refining and fair value gaps and displacement are going to help us do exactly that so what they do is they show a desire to move further okay we can use fair value gaps for everything from higher time frame levels directional bias trade entries and stop losses and I want you to understand that some fair value gaps have a higher probability of continuing than others as with anything in trading nothing is 100% and in fact just because this is a fair value Gap doesn't mean that it's high probability and in fact neither of these are they're actually both very low probability now the reason I chose these and now I'm telling you that is to show you that you can have a concept and it still be lower probability so many times do I see Traders figure out a new concept and then every time it pops up on the screen they want to go and trade it and wonder why it's not working every time and that's just because they don't understand trading and they don't understand that trading is a game of probability so you're going to be stacking different things AKA confluences together in order to get higher probability so why do we use fair value gaps well number one going back to our example of displacement right fair value gaps show us displacement like we talked about before we need a fair value Gap to confirm a big push in the market and to confirm that the market is going to continue now another concept that I've hinted at was internal range liquidity to external range liquidity these are just abbreviations so notice how the market is going to be moving from one of two things okay it's either going to be moving into a high right like this and whenever it turns around it's going to move into a fair value gap which is internal liquidity and from there it's likely to move back to a high and it will continue on this course until the market is going to reverse usually the market reverses when we don't have fair value gaps for example look right here the market moved from external liquidity right there where did it go internal in this fair value Gap went to external but then notice there is no fair value Gap here so then the market reverses and goes to external range liquidity Now Fair Value gaps are used to Define internal range liquidity and they're also extremely valuable whenever you're trying to find bias and if you've been trading ICT for any amount of time you understand that daily bias is 100% the hardest and most subjective part of this whole ideology but we're going to talk about how to simplify that as well later in the video for now I just want you to understand that the market is going to be moving from fair value gaps to highs and back and forth and back and forth now lower time frames like we talked about with the impulse structure in this example this is a visualization of us moving from those fair value gaps back to external range liquidity we're going to use something called Market maker models to determine how to trade this later in the video let's talk about some strategies on how to select which fair value gaps are high probability versus the lower probability now if you notice right here these are the examples that I showed you earlier in the video now there's going to be something called a lack of consistency here but what does that mean well I want you to take a look at these high probability fair value gaps first notice how in this fair value Gap right here all of the candles are Down Candles right we have a down candle right there a down candle right there and a down candle right there that shows displacement the market is moving in One Direction this is a one-sided fair value Gap and it is going to be higher probability due to that okay now if we're looking at any fair value Gap we always want to make sure that it's either one-sided or we have a break and structure gap which we're going to talk about in a second now if you have both of these it's even higher probability okay so notice right here we have an up candle up candle up candle that's a one-sided Gap up candle up candle up candle that's a one-sided Gap okay so one-sided gaps are consistent in the type of candles they're all either up closed or down close this shows that the market is consistently reaching in One Direction now the reason that this is important again displacement right everything comes back to displacement if you look at it in the right way and obviously these have a higher probability to continue than other fair value gaps let's talking about a lack of consistency or two-sided gaps they're going to be indecisive candles meaning they might have some up close and some down close this is showing a lack of display so the market is kind of just inching and even though there's a fair value Gap it's not really confident in its direction right the market isn't really pushing it's not that one-sided displacement you want to see when the market is high probability and moving in One Direction your job as a Trader I'm going to reiterate this throughout this entire course is to understand when you have higher probability conditions okay every tool in Your Arsenal is just doing that that's what a trading model is because nothing is 100% so all you're trying to do is get the best odds so I want to drill into your head that you need to do everything you can in order to refine and weed out the bad trades okay so this shows a lack of displacement they have a low probability to continue and you can reverse engineer this idea if you have inconsistency gaps and maybe an Impulse down like this you can pair those two things together as a Confluence to look for lower pricing to probably trade into liquidity okay another big thing that I want you to learn is how to reverse engineer Concepts because if you understand oh well this is low probability you know I'm not going to buy here well if you're not going to buy there's a good chance that there's a selling opportunity now you want to make sure to pair it with other Concepts like impulse is right here we have that impulse with displacement and numerous other things you're going to learn in this video and it's going to open up a whole new world of opportunity next let's go ahead and talk about break and structure gaps or bsgs so break and structure gaps are extremely important and they're a tool that's going to help you determine whether or not the market is going to continue on its displacement even if it's an old Breakin structure Gap with old structure you want to pay attention because that fair value Gap took structure right it was a candle that broke structure so it's very very important it pushed us across a line at one time so if the market comes into this fair value Gap and it's a one-sided Gap look at this we have down candle down candle down candle that would be two times the probability now I'm not saying every fair value Gap that is a breaking structure Gap will work and in fact if they get inverted which we're going to talk about inverting fair value gaps later if they get inverted you can actually use that as a tool to trade in the opposite direction because if the market is going to continue this fair value Gap should hold so if we can pair together having both one side of gaps and break and structure gaps those are the highest probability fair value gaps okay you can just have either only a one-sided Gap or only a break and structure Gap and it work but the higher probability is when you combine them together that's another concept that I want to push into your mind is that if you combine things together you you're going to have more Confluence or more confidence in a trade or a bias or whatever you're trying to draw out on the chart just like we just talked about a failed breaking structure Gap if we invert it notice how we closed above it at that time you can can immediately look for the market to trade higher okay immediately look for the market to trade up into the liquidity beyond that fair value Gap because if the market was bearish we should not have inverted that okay you can see right here when the market inverted that the market then uses it as a level of support and then trades higher okay now inflection points are another Confluence you can use by extending out the structure that was taken and seeing how the market reacts at that level this is something that you want to use think of it like like sauce on your on your me it's not the main course it's just something that you're going to sprinkle on or add for extra confluences okay I don't want you guys to get too crazy with inflection points and just draw them out and only use this but they're just an extra Confluence to use if they are coinciding with other levels so all this is is extending out the structure that was broken with the break and structure Gap now let's talk about inverted fair value gaps and these are extremely powerful okay an inverted fair value Gap is simply when the market closes or inverts a fair value Gap there's an old saying that ICT used to say it was that the Wicks do the damage and the bodies tell the story now what does that mean well in a fair value Gap it is okay to see Wicks into it that doesn't mean anything that the fair value Gap is going to fail it's even okay to see a body close inside of it but if a body closes outside of it like this the market is likely switching Direction now we're going to talk about how to use this as an entry strategy how to use this as a bias strategy and everything in between to increase the probability of an inverted fair value Gap look for the them to occur at two-sided gaps since we're already expecting those to fail or at break and structure gaps because those should hold now another thing you can do is look for them after sweeps of liquidity like we're talking about let's say if you have a manipulation you have a manipulation and you don't want to have to wait for this whole displacement to happen let's say you get a inverted fair value Gap but you haven't really got a displacement well you can use that in place of the displacement because it's just something that is helping you rationalize that the market is likely going to trade lower so if you had this plus displacement it would be even higher probability okay you can stack these things or use them interchangeably now when inverted fair value Gap is confirmed look for the opposing liquidity so let's say when this fair value Gap was inverted we formed liquidity there the market traded up traded lower okay now if you want to pair this with your overall higher time frame like if we're looking here let's just say the market had inverted a fair value Gap right here well if the market inverted that let's say it closed a candle right there okay at that time you didn't just have to look for this opposing liquidity you could pair it with your overall higher time frame impulse to look all the way up here and you can see that that's a massive difference in terms of your overall Target and the amount of money you can make off that trade all right so now let's talk about liquidity this is something that gets over complicated and I'm going to simplify it into really all you need to know we're going to talk about what it is why and how to actually use it so liquidity definitively is the ease at which an asset can be bought or sold remember we were talking about the example up here if you're a large Market participant let's say wants to buy a gazillion shares right here and they're not for sale we're going to have to manipulate the market down to where they are because there's ease of buying down here there are enough shares or enough contracts or whatever you're trying to buy if you're a market maker there are enough of that down here for sale in a liquidity pool right there's a pool of liquidity okay so that is what liquidity is now why is it important well if we are trading smart money Concepts or ICT we're trying to trade as the smart money and where would the smart money buy in a bullish Market well they want to buy from sellers right they have to push the market where there are sellers which is going to be under lows okay so if we are bullish based on other things that we're doing in on the chart to form bias then we want to buy under lows AKA sell-side liquidity sell-side liquidity just means under lows okay now in a bearish market we want to sell to buyers right where are there going to be buyers well there's going to be breakout buyers if the market moves above a range the people are going to try to buy the breakout but more importantly there's going to be people who are shorting but then they get stopped out and that is the equivalent to a buy so if you're bearish you want to sell above highs and if you're bullish you want to buy below lows now you can apply this concept in a myriad of different ways for example whenever the market is impulsing up remember we had these examples where there's not really any structure we to pay attention to those are the lows that you want to buy under okay going back to this example which we're going to revisit a couple times let's say if you were bearish in this market right here you would be looking to sell above these kind of highs because the impulse is bearish so anytime you're popping above structure sell above that high and then ride it down to the next low vice versa if you were bullish right here because the market is impulsing up you would look to buy below lows because you want to buy below lows ideally in key levels like fair value gaps or any of the other levels like order blocks or breaker blocks that we're going to talk about here in just a minute so back to this example of internal and external range liquidity we're not going to sit here too long cuz we already went over this but external range liquidity is just going to be highs or lows internal range liquidity is fair value gaps okay very simple the market is moving to one or the other at all times and you can go from the top down in order to get a clear bias you always want to start at a higher time frame like a weekly and then move down until you have clear bias okay all right now let's talk about order blocks a lot of people including myself whenever I first got introduced into trading ICT or SMC got introduced through order blocks they get introduced through supply and demand and all these High super high risk reward strategies and most of that is just complete BS okay and I'm going to crack the code on how you can actually use order blocks and how to properly use them as an ICT Trader we're going to talk about what they are why to use them and also how to use them with a couple different strategies one of which I came up with on my own after spending years and years in front of the chart so what are order blocks well order blocks are candles formed just before expansive moves in price that can be later used as a level to trade from so if the market is trending down and let's just say you have an up closed candle right here this is an up closed candle if the market is still bearish you should find resistance on that candle so you can use this as a level to trade from let's say if you in a trade from above you could Trail your stop above it there's a lot of different uses we can use order blocks for that's why they're important and what they are so in a bullish Market it's going to be down Clos candles and in a bearish market it's going to be up Clos candles ideally ones that occur before a fair value Gap and they occur before a displacement because a displacement is everything a level should provide displacement if it's going to be respected all right so let's break this down a little bit further so order blocks are going to be critical price ranges where institutions engage or buying or selling against retail Trends okay so remember we talked about taking out liquidity so if if the overall institutional bias is bullish right the big dogs want to push price under a low they're going to have to sell and create that manipulation in order to do so so if the market pushes all the way down here and they're selling they're going to be in cells that are underwater because their main position is buys let's say they're you know 20% in sales right here and then 80% of their books are net long so when the market gets pushed up they still are underwater on these cells so when the market comes back to those areas where they're in cells they're going to mitigate their losses and close those sell orders which then in turn creates a bullish reaction that's the why and how order blocks work so it's going to be be the lowest candle with a down close that has the most range between the open and the close so ideally we want to just use the body right it's just mapped out to map this candle just to show you that's this candle but you want to use the body so the open to the close and you want to find the one that has the largest body before a move up in price also notice how there are fair value gaps created after it that shows displacement away from it okay now in a bearish market it's literally the same thing just the opposite it's going to be an up close candle okay so let's look at some more examples we have support level that is taken out so liquidity was swept and the market starts to push up and create fair value gaps after the order block okay so taking a look at another example the market comes into a support level consolidates a little bit then it starts displacing creating fair value Gap so it's displacing away from the level and then when the market trades back into of that level we get a reaction so you can use this as just a level of support or resistance you could use it to Trail a stop- loss under it there's a lot of different uses for an order block especially once you understand Market maker models because once you understand Market maker models everything is unlocked in trading and you understand which way the Market's flowing and you understand where exactly to put your stop you understand how to Trail your stop and we're going to get into that here in a little bit I don't want to get too far ahead of myself so we'll look at some more examples right here we have the market trading up into this high and then displacing to the downside trading back up into it and then moving away and we have more examples right here now remember if you want to download this board so you have all of it and can come back to it later the link is down in the description all right so now let's talk about a fascinating concept that that I came up with after watching tens of thousands of candles print over the last 8 years that I've been trading so this is what I call a manipulation block all right a manipulation block is just the same as an order block except it closes Beyond liquidity very very important okay now it's even higher probability if the very next candle engulfs it now what is it engulfing when this candle's body engulfs this candle's body okay very very very powerful concept okay so this is going to be one of the most powerful things you will ever learn from me or ever learn as a Trader period it's the same thing as an order block but it has to close beyond the liquidity okay because an order block does not necessarily have to close it could just sweep liquidity and pop back up and just leave a wick right there here are some examples you can use this for your study notice how the market closes below a low pushes back up and then moves to the upside now you can even draw standard deviations on this and you'll get this measured move move of this candle right this exact move usually four times after one is created now of course you want to pair this with your overall bias so for example on a higher time frame this whole leg down was an Impulse right we have an Impulse the market was trading lower so you're visualizing on a lower time frame and you're using it in context right now notice right here the market closed above this area right here and then extend that candle not this one right here very important not this this candle but the one that closed Beyond liquidity now notice anybody who is just trading this candle looking for an order block was sad and left behind but if you map out the one that closes beyond the high right we can see that the candle was traded back into and there was a trade opportunity and you'll notice this happens over and over again right here's another one right here that gets traded into happens over and over and over again once you see this you will never unsee it all right so now let's go ahead and talk about breaker blocks these are some of my favorite tools to use especially if you're trading Futures and looking to trade raids on liquidity and reversals in the New York session we're going to talk about what they are why we use them and how to properly map and use a breaker block so what are breaker blocks well they're going to be powerful levels in price that occur before raids on liquidity so going back up to these examples we talked about whenever there's a manipulation right there's a manipulation there's almost always a breaker okay we're going to talk about how to spot them but just remember this key concept so why are they important well they're going to occur at Key times of the day when we're expecting liquidity sweeps which is very powerful because it allows us to refine when we're looking for them you only want to be looking for these during the volatile times in the day which we're going to get to later in the time section now they are especially powerful when they're linked with fair value gaps this is actually called a unicorn which ICT himself said was the most powerful algorithmic I can't remember what the what the hell he actually said he said it was a very powerful most powerful tool I'm not into all the algorithmic all that I just am here to make money a lot of it's jargon of nonsense anyways so the breaker block which is often mistaken for an order block if you're on the wrong side of the market is going to form before a sweep on liquidity so notice let's just say let's just look at just that over there you would probably want to look at this as an order block right but it comes from not understanding the overall bias because in this market let's just say you were bullish and your impulse was right here you're not going to be looking for a bearish order block you're going to be looking for bullish price action so as soon as the market had engulf this candle right as soon as that happened you're looking for Longs and looking for higher prices vice versa in a bearish market let's just say the impulse was bearish you're going to be expecting this to fail you wouldn't expect the market to come back into and trade higher because you're bearish okay so once it does fail think of it as like a failed order block once it does you can look for the market to use that as a level to propel it further let's take a look at some bullish and bearish examples so right here we have an up closed candle before a run on stops that is quickly engulfed so that level later on can be treated as a level we're going to likely trade away from now notice that it was also paired with a fair value Gap that makes it a unicorn pattern which is extremely powerful now right here we have a breaker block that occurred before a sweep of lows so that is going to be a bullish breaker block you extend that out in time and after it was engulfed now pay attention this did not activate it because the candle wasn't engulfed the candle did not get engulfed until this candle right here and if you notice the very next two times it traded into it after that it yielded a bullish reaction very very important that you're using engulfing okay I cannot stress that enough another thing is you want this to be the last up closed candle before a run on stops or if it was a bearish example it would be the last down closed candle before a run on stops notice there's a manipulation so another way to determine whether or not there was a run- on stops is going back all the way to the first thing we talked about which is manipulation and displacement look manipulation and displacement can be used in everything you do I said that I said that at the beginning of this course I will continue to say it and I want you to always remember that just like right here we have manipulation and then what displacement so manipulation plus displacement you can look for Breakers you can look for fair value gaps and you can look for any other things that you're looking for in price but it has to be in context okay that's the most important thing I want to teach you guys so the unicorn model which is what we talked about the fair value Gap you want to just make sure that we have our sweep on liquidity AK manipulation then you need a displacement creating a fair value Gap okay so notice how we have a fair value Gap this zone right here is now a unicorn Zone it's two levels paired together now why is this so important well a lot of people I think miss the value of unicorn models they understand that they're powerful and you could trade from them yes but the reason they're powerful is it's just you're combining multiple confluences in one and a lot of ICT Traders don't understand the power of just getting probability simply by how many confluences do you have how many things do you have telling you the same thing right all right now we are going to talk about one of the most overlooked and misunderstood parts of ICT and also one of the most fascinating which is time okay time is going to do unlimited things for your trading in terms of refining the amount trades you're going to take in terms of looking for what liquidity is to be swept in terms of looking for what kind of behavior to expect in a price session or in a day and also to understand the overall cycle that the market is always going in okay we're going to piece together a lot of Concepts here we're going to talk about the power of three we're going to talk about what time based liquidity is and everything in between so simply put time and price just refers to the analysis that Traders can do using time now why is this important well again we're going to be able to figure out when we're looking for certain behaviors in price which levels to trade from and when to expect expansion versus consolidation pay very close attention because this is extremely important and we're going to be using this heavily in our putting it all together section which is going to be the trading plan so first you must understand the power of three so the power of three is what refers to Candle formation okay every candle I want you to understand that every candle has a wick every candle has a body every candle has a wick so let's just say if you're trying to get in on this weekly candle you're just trying to catch the weekly expansion your goal is to get in on this Wick now what if I were to tell you that this Wick is not only likely to happen but it's likely to happen at a certain time of the week and you're going to be able to use time to identify what which reversals are high probability in terms of being the low or the high of the week now you can do this with the daily candle you could do this with a 1 hour candle because price is fractal and so is time okay everything you're doing should revolve around time so we're looking for accumulation at opening prices and we're looking for manipulation on a lower time frame than the when you're viewing the candle on to form that manipulation versus displacement at a certain time of day and then you're going to be able to trade the distribution okay now opening price is also very important because if the market is forming a wick it's going to have to move beyond the opening price so paying attention to the opening price is going to tell you everything you need to know you can kind of use it as a barometer if the Market's bearish it should sell off from above it okay and if it doesn't then you might be wrong on your bias so again you can download this whole board I'm not going to read every word of this and this whole ebook look but essentially the market is going to move from accumulation to manipulation to distribution okay so distribution and manipulation is what you want to trade you want to stay away from accumulation you want to use the range that's formed here in order to trade but you don't want to be trading in this because if we're going to be in accumulation right if the market is ranging we're likely to move out of that before getting the true move so the manipulation would be this move up and the distribution would be this move down that's often times going to happen into a higher time frame level and it's going to happen beyond the opening price okay the accumulation phase a candle is going to look like this now I want you to remember that every bullish candle once was bearish if it has a wick okay it once looked like this right so this is the manipulation phase now if you're bullish in the market for this time period whether it's a day or a week if you're a day trader and let's say the daily candle looks like this you should be looking for a buy because that bottom Wick is very likely to be created okay and you don't have to necessarily catch the entire expansion or the entire range of the candle but you can place a good bet if you see your entry model if you see multiple confluences telling you to buy and there's no Wick created then you're likely able to get an opportunity okay now this is often times going to occur into a higher time frame level like a fair value Gap okay now a distribution phase is when the market has been in their position and we have a rapid expansion in distribution you're just going to be looking to trade into fair value gaps and catch continuations Okay so very key concept to learn accumulation you're going to have a range forming manipulation you're looking to trade liquidity rates you're looking to trade manipulation right but once we displace out of that and we are in distribution you shouldn't expect the market to come back under lows you should expect the market to just trade from internal to external this is a concept that a lot of people mess up and they get left behind watching the market do exactly what they wanted to do but they they don't catch it because they're waiting for some run on liquidity because they don't understand time so again in the manipulation phase you're looking to buy liquidity raids or sell them if you're bearish but you're looking to trade liquidity raids once the market distributes yes you can trade lower time frame raids but essentially You're Expecting The Market to stay within its impulse now notice how it's so important to pay attention to the impulse because you have all of this noise that can get manipulated and you still move up because you're trading in context of this range in price and look what happens when the market comes to a discount and you come under a low like we talked about before buying Under lows this is where you look for trade entries okay and you understand the market is likely to continue because it's in distribution we're going to talk about when distribution is and all of that here in a second but it's important that you understand the concept before we get into it now the bearish example we're not going to just break down the same thing again because it is the same thing all right so let's talk about the actual framework and execution of this so step one is you want to determine the overall trend you want to have your bias now we're going to talk more about daily bias but I've already taught you a lot of what goes into daily bias which is manipulation display M and internal and external range liquidity okay so if the trend is bullish you're using this manipulation to anticipate lower pricing you don't find your B bias based on this you're going to find your bias based on the higher time frames and use this as a compliment so let's just say you come into the market right here when you start sweeping out under lows you're looking for a displacement up to then trade up higher okay because you're expecting the market to accumulate and then manipulate to the downside because if you're bullish You're Expecting manipulation to the the downside now you can simply just trade from you know like let's say if you're a lower time frame Trader and you're trading manipulation you can just trade to the bottom of the accumulation range you don't even have to catch that whole distribution in fact most of the times you can just trade this okay now whenever you're using this to trade you need to understand that it's just kind of a guideline you don't have to catch the whole entire move it's just telling you which way the river is Flowing so to speak now once the market is moving once the market is moving down and you're in distribution you want to make sure you're only executing trades in alignment with the identified Trend okay you have to wait until the the market is clear okay this is very very very powerful if you can Master this and it's not I won't say it's the easiest thing to master I won't sit here and tell you that this is so easy and you should understand it immediately and if you don't understand it that's fine just keep watching this and go test it on Price Right test it out um this is what I use live trading with my group every single day okay this is going to unlock the next level so to speak of trading so we'll look at some more examples let's just say if you're bullish on this day well any sweep under time based liquidity which we're going to talk about in a second but is the higher low formed during an accumulation phase any sweep lower you're going to be looking for the market to do what the market to give you a confirmation so what do we have here we have an inverted fair value Gap not only that we have a displacement right look right there we have a fair value Gap so you have two things telling you you could have taken a trade right there and look to Target the top side of this range or let's imagine the market was bullish and had an impulse on the higher time frame you can use all of this to then trade up higher into that level right you use the higher time frame you can extend your target now notice the opening price okay when the opening price occurs and the market moves away from it and moves against it let's just say if you're if you're bullish the market is moving bearishly away from opening price or below it trading into a higher time frame level right there's a fair value Gap here and taking out the accumulation lows all you need is a confirmation all you need is some kind of displacement up some kind of inverted fair value Gap or smt diverence which we're going to talk about in a second in order to confirm that the market is likely to move higher and you have a trade setup in of itself now notice again there's an old high so there's context here okay the market was trading from internal to external range liquidity everything ties together if you do this correctly so very important is knowing when to trade okay so you're going to look for trade opportunities simply during manipulation and distribution nothing else you're not going to even look to trade during accumulation phases okay and we're going to talk about in a second what accumulation phases are when they are um on a daily and a session based level because this concept can be used on a weekly candle it can be used on a daily candle it can even be used on a session because every one of those has the smart trading life cycle of the power of three all right so let's break this down into when these time Cycles are so we're talking about on a weekly candle okay a weekly time cycle so we'll say week day we're not going to break it down all the way into sessions because you're just going to use the same concept I'm going to teach you right now so on Monday at 1800 now all of these times are New York time New York Standard Time Eastern time I get a lot of comments when I talk about time what time zone so I'm going to make it very clear New York okay so at 1800 meaning 6 p.m. on Monday that is the weekly open need to add the open over here really quick so we'll say midnight open sorry about that so the true week open is g to be 1,800 on Monday 6 PM so you want to see Sharp moves away from this during the manipulation or distribution now notice how on Monday I say it's usually going to be accumulation but if the previous Friday expanded for example so let's say on Friday the market expanded okay we're going to expect consolidation on Monday and then manipulation on Tuesday likely Distribution on Wednesday and then possible continuation if we haven't hit our higher time frame Target on Thursday or if we have hit our higher time frame Target let's say it did then we're going to expect that reversal on Thursday okay but the key I want you to understand here is expansion if Friday accumulated so you're always going to be when you're trying to determine whether or not we're doing accumulation manipulation distribution or X which is going to be continuation or reversal what you're going to be doing is trying to determine based on the previous cycle and time so let's just say on Fridays that the market accumulated and you're coming into the market on Monday usually if it's accumulating the market had just traded into some kind of key level let's just say on last Friday we traded traded into a fair value gap on the higher time frame you're going to expect the market to give a continuation or reversal so if it traded into a level you're likely to get a reversal on Monday okay now let's just say if the market almost traded to a level it didn't get there it's just consolidating on Friday well on Monday you're going to expect a continuation of the move that happened before the consolidation on Friday okay so the previous session or the previous day that price action can tell you what's likely to happen if you got a consolidation the previous day expect expansion if you got expansion in the previous day or session expect consolidation this is why if London range is very very large and you're trading New York you want to stay away from New York because you're expecting consolidation you would wait for the PM session right so Tuesday and everything's going to be dependent on how Monday goes so Tuesday is you is going to be a manipulation so long as Monday Consolidated but if Monday expanded then Tuesday can be accumulation okay so Wednesday is either going to be manipulation or distribution based on the other two and Thursday is going to be distribution or continuation or reversal based on the previous two like we just talked about so you ideally want to be trading Tuesday to Thursday these are the days that I live trade with all my students and there's a reason for that it's not just because I like trading those days it's because I get my best results so you want to see Sharp moves past that 6m price on Monday during Tuesday through Thursday okay that's going to be the biggest opportunities so the day is going to be the same exact concept nothing is changing except the times you're using You're Expecting accumulation during Asia and then manipulation during London distribution during the morning session of New York and then a continuation reversal here now the only time this changes is if Asia expands right and then London consolidates then you're looking for a sweep of London liquidity during the New York am session and this happens often okay so pay attention to how London acts if London is expanding usually you have taken out liquidity from the Asia session or if you didn't take out time based liquidity if you didn't take out liquidity the London session had a push past that midnight open right you don't have to always take liquidity you can just push past the opening price and that in itself is manipulation now if you move away from that then in the next session expect continuation and just look to trade for Value gaps now you want to be focusing on certain parts of these sessions you don't want to trade the whole time if you're day trading if you're trading London focus on 1:30 a.m. to 4:30 if you're trading the New York am I'm going to take it even a further step in refinement and just trade 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 really 9:30 a.m. you don't need much okay the less you sit in front of the screen the better your results are likely to be and you can break all of these sessions down into fours as well for example you could go 6 to 7:30 7:30 to 9 9 to 10:30 10:30 to 12 and that's why I say to focus on 9 to 10:30 because you're going to be trading the likely distribution and that's my favorite time to trade I'd rather wait until the market has already got the manipulation out of the way and is moving in my direction and I get higher probability results that way now let's talk about time based liquidity time based liquidity is just going to be the high or the low made in any of these times okay could be Tuesday's High Monday's high it's any of these times now to be clear whenever we're saying the days it's going to be 1,800 to the 1800 the next day okay let me write this down 1800 to 1800 next day equals one day okay very important that we understand that very important now the session highs and lows are just going to be the highs and lows made during these time so let's say if you're coming into the market and you take out either the previous week's high or low or the previous day's high or low or the previous session or the previous quarter of a session right if you're taking at any of these those are high probability areas of reversal so time-based liquidity when you're trying to trade reversals is really all you should pay attention to if you're trying to trade the overall reversal from you know accumulation to manipulation you want to wait until the market moves past the opening price and also trades into the highs of a range so right here here we have London session and look at the highs the high was right here maybe it was right here looks one of these was both of them were traded into and then that is the time based liquidity and you're going to look for on the lower time frame your overall entry models there now if you miss that and the Market's already shifted down and given you signs of reversal through inverse fair value gaps then this is going to be distribution you're just looking to trade retracements all right now let's talk about one of the most subjective and difficult parts of ICT and if you don't understand this then literally nothing will work work because you're going to consistently be trading the wrong side of the market which is daily bias what is it why do we use it and how do we use it we're going to break it down into four easy Concepts which we've already talked about one then we're going to talk about Candle by candle bias alignment and reactivity Theory something else that I have came up with over my time in the markets so what is daily bias well to simplify it's just the current direction that you're expecting the current daily candle to close in simple terms are we bullish or bearish okay people and ICT love to complicate stuff not an advocate for that I like to simplify because Simplicity scales and complexity fails so the reason that it's important obviously is when bias is clear all you have to do is wait for your entry model during the trading session if you're bullish right if you're bullish you're just looking to buy under lows with a lower time frame confirmation so what this looks like on a lower time frame is going to be a market structure shift or fair value gaps or any of these other terms we've talked about with displacement that you can use to confirm the Market's reversing here and going up higher now Market maker models are also present in every single move from internal to external range liquidity now we've already talked about internal to external but we'll lightly revisit it remember the Market's always moving from internal to external range of liquidity using the lower time frames and Market maker models and shifts and structure and displacement everything else we've talked about to confirm when that change is happening now with time you're likely expecting this to happen during that manipulation or distribution phase once you have all of these things together that is going to give you a higher probability reversal to trade up higher now let's talk about Candle by candle bias if one candle sweeps a previous candle and then engulfs it right if it engulfs its body that's a high probability setup that's going to go higher if it engulfs the body and the wick that is a very high probability that the market is going to trade much higher so even in Candle by candle right look right here the market swept this candle out and engulfed it that is a sign we're likely to trade higher if you're trading from internal to external liquidity right let's just say the market had been bullish already right and the market traded into some fair value Gap that was created and you have this accompanied by that you can anticipate the market is likely to trade higher according to the bias okay now you could use this along with other concepts for higher probability you could use it also to Define ranges so for example if you draw a range on the candle that engulfed that is going to be a price range on a lower time frame if you extend this out and look at you know a lower time frame than one you're on that's going to be a whole price range you can draw a premium discount tool or a fib tool on that and look for lower time frame fair value gaps or key levels to trade off of in the0 five of that range you can also look for lower time frame Market maker models in that range as well now we're going to talk about alignment alignment is when you have all of your higher time frames that you're using and you don't need to use every single one you should use two to three but it's when you have these time frames in agreement of what you're looking at let's take a look at this example so this is the one example we've been looking at through the whole video but now let's breaking down on a 4-Hour chart this is actually the same exact piece of price action so in that move to the IRL right all we're looking at is this right here because this is a weekly chart we're going to jump down to a 4 hour to Envision this move out of this so if we're looking at this move right here once the market comes into that Weekly fair value Gap once we're down here what we're looking for is some kind of displacement up to confirm that we're moving out of it and towards that external range liquidity because remember the market is moving from internal to external and you're using the lower time frame to confirm when this move is beginning so once the market displaced up right here we created fair value gaps we also created an order block right here and then the market came back down to that and pushed up higher now once you have shifted structure this is also a market maker model okay we're going to talk about that more in depth in a second but just be aware that as soon as you shift structure you're now on the buy side of the curve which means you're seeking out highs you're pairing this also with your higher time frame so at that time any bullish level any bullish level is being bought you're not looking to sell at all you're just looking to buy until that higher time frame Target is met okay that is the power of a market maker model on the right side of a market maker model you're only looking for one side of price action you're looking to buy under lows or in Fair Value gaps or in order blocks or breaker blocks or any of the tools that I've taught you in this video now inside of this move right here look we can take this another step further inside of this move into this fair value Gap we can go to a 15minute because that is what you use to confirm a 4 hour and I'm going to give you a whole list of the time frames you use here in a second but right here we have the 15 minute now this is the exact same move this is this bit of price action right there so remember the market is already in alignment on the 4our and the weekly so you're just looking to confirm this move into that fair value Gap and confirm it by what you guessed it displacement okay once we've created a displacement up we've created a fair value Gap we've taken out structure so at that time as soon as this candle closes as soon as we form that fair value Gap the market is bullish and you can look for bullish levels such as order blocks or breaker blocks which we have over here to be respected that time you can do the same thing on a one minute and look for an entry model and trade higher okay now this happens over and over and over again okay until that overall highest time frame Target is met you're going to see lower time frame Market maker model inside every single high time frame level okay that is how you have a clear daily bias now something else you can use is reactivity Theory now this is something that I came up with there's also a link to this video basically it's really just asking yourself in a dynamic way which side of the market is failing you know how are we reacting to fair value gaps how are we reacting to order blocks the way that we're reacting these levels if we're not displacing away from them then you're not likely to continue for example if we trade into an order block what do we want to see we want to see a big push out of it right we have a fair value Gap coming out of it so that confirms that level anytime we trade into manipulation if we're trading to lows we should see fair value gaps come away from it so it's all about are we displacing away from one side of the market is the market forcefully pushing in One Direction and this is a little bit of a discretionary way to read price but it can help you a lot if you can get it down all right next we're going to talk about something that I have referenced a couple times in this video and that is Market maker models we're going to talk about what they are why we use them and how to use them now this is another concept that's super super super over complicated and a lot of people get overwhelmed by it but it's just simply because they don't have a practical way to view them so we're going to talk about how to use them to plot out every single move from internal to external or vice versa because every time that this happens in a higher time frame a lower time frame Market maker model can be used to confirm it now all it is is two consolidations leading into a reversal aligning with this I can't stress enough how the context is the most important part because if not you're just trading patterns and we are not pattern Traders okay so Market maker model is just a strategy to visualize retracements and expansions on a lower time frame reason we use them is they identify what side of the curve you're on and confirm your higher time frame bias now they help you with trade entries and stop loss placement as well this is the alignment or these are the time frame pairings you should use okay if you're using a higher time frame fair value gap or a high or low you should be using the ones on the left side of this and to confirm them you're going to be looking for Market maker models on the right side okay forgive me my beautiful drawing there so we'll say the market moved up into this area right and there was a fair value gap on the way up so we're expecting the market to move from external range liquidity we'll say we took out a high over here created a fair value Gap above that area we're expecting a consolidation and then we're expecting a retracement right just like we talked about in the very very beginning of the video this in itself is a market maker model you just didn't realize it at that time maybe you did maybe you're more advanced than most people but most people just see it as the simple perfect form but it's not it's just a retracement or an expansion okay there's a market maker model here and there's a market maker model there so it's going to be two or more consolidations on the way down into an internal to external move or an external to internal move now I will say trading the ones from internal to external are easier for beginners so I recommend just sticking with that until you have that mastered so on a higher time frame expansion and you have a fair value Gap you're looking for a lower time frame Market maker model confirmed by that market structure shift which is just a displacement or a change in impulse structure so if we have impulses down whenever you get to that impulse and you displace up creating a fair value Gap at that time once you cross that line you are bullish and all you're looking to do is buy under lows buy under lows or buy and fair value gaps plus if you have a combination notice we have an Impulse structure right here we'll say there's a fair value Gap you bought under lows and in a fair value Gap now what you can do as well let's say if you got in down at the bottom of this let's let's say you took a trade down here or right here in this fa value Gap every time the market sweeps out lows Trail your stop sweeps out lows Trail your stop or if the market puts in smt Divergence which we're going to talk about in a second now you can also get multiple trade entries every time the market comes under there's going to be an opportunity there on a lower time frame to look for confirmation same here okay so we already looked at this example we won't hang out here too much this is that 4H hour example we looked at in the last part when we were talking about daily bias next let's talk about smt Divergence now this is one of the most powerful tools you're going to be able to use not only to have bias but also to mix with time and price and also to get trade entries and how to Trail your stop loss we're going to talk about what it is why we use it and how to use it okay smt stands for smart money tool now some people say smart money technique ICT has said it both ways anyways we are using this to identify manipulation so whenever we're talking about manipulation right we have that pop under low and we don't displace through it and then the market pushes away from it now at sometimes the market just does this and pushes away now this is also call it an SFP for some people a swing failure pattern because we failed to push through and make a swing but often times when this occurs let's say this occurs on the S&P 500 well a lot of times the NASDAQ might be making a lower low that would be smt Divergence because it's a crack in correlation and that's all smt Divergence is it's when there's a crack in correlations it's basically Bally showing you that there is some kind of manipulation there's some kind of smart money activity at Play Because when markets that are very large like the stock market or Forex markets aren't moving appropriately that shows that there is a large Force at play so this can be used as a tool to confirm your trades or confirm a bias let's look at some examples notice right here NQ had made a lower high while es had made a higher high if it happens at the highs remember if it happens at the highs it's bearish because if Highs are being manipulated the Market's bearish okay so a lot of people will say whichever one makes the lower high or whichever one fails to put in structure is the one you should trade I disagree with that I think you should trade whichever one has the highest probability based on the rest of your analysis I think simply saying you're going to trade one or the other it just adds into the identity of someone who's a pattern Trader who only uses one Confluence to trade and trust me that's not going to work for very long that's with indices so NQ and Es you can also use this with ym however I think that it's higher probability with NQ Andes because it happens all the time with ym especially if you're trading a 1 minute time frame now the inverse of this is going to be EU or dxy so EU or dxy which is the Euro USD now this can go for any currency that ends in USD okay any currency that ends in USD could be gbpusd ausd nzdusd any currency that ends in USD okay so the dollar which is dxy should move opposing to these right the dollar should move against them so if the dollar is making high higher highs then EU should be making lower lows and if it's not that could be bullish for EU and beish for the dollar okay very very important now you can also use this with crypto Bitcoin and ethereum think of it like NQ Andes they should move together and if they don't then that can be a sign that there's Foul Play or manipulation in the market if it happens at the lows it's bullish or if it happens at the highs it's bearish if you want to download this entire board all for free that way you have all of the examples you have the Mind map all of the ebooks and everything and go ahead and click the link down in the description and download it right now for free all right congratulations if you have made it this far we are now going to talk about your trading plan and how to put it all together so pay very close attention as this is extremely important if you don't Implement what you've learned today then all you have is a bunch of Concepts that yes are fascinating but they won't make you any money unless you're able to implement it consistently so so let's go right into it and talk about your bias checklist okay so bias the first thing you're always going to do is weekly IRL to erl and weekly candle bias okay now you don't have to have both of these okay I want to be clear you don't have to have every Star aligning in order to have bias you're just stacking up how many things are telling you bull versus how many things are telling you bear going from the top down meaning the higher time frames down so if you've recently traded into internal range liquidity and you're sweeping out the previous candle's low and engulfing it that is a very bullish sign if you come to the market on a Sunday and you see this you should be bullish in that week and if you're bullish in that week you will expect some kind of manipulation down before moving up higher okay and you're going to go through the rest of the time frames to determine the road map you'll take now another thing that I want you to pay close attention to is the economic calendar okay this also goes in tune with time but you need to look at this when you're doing your weekly analysis it's a extremely important and you should map out your entire week based on this so you're going to go and you're going to turn off everything except red folder News because everything else is noise you're only going to have whatever markets you're trading you don't want to have everything in the Under the Sun on here it's going to be all over the place so I only trade Futures so I'm just using USD so if you see no news on a Monday and we're expecting consolidation for whatever reason then that is even more Confluence that you shouldn't be trading because there's no high impact news there's a lot of these gurus out here will say I don't trade impa high impact news anyone who says that is a rookie okay I'm not saying you should trade on high impact news like at at the moment it's happening don't be don't be an idiot okay I'm not saying that I am saying that these are the days you will expect volatility and as a day trader I don't know about you but I like when there's volatility considering that's how I make money okay a lot of people say I don't trade any high impact Newsday have fun never Trading because there are a lot of those and you should trade these don't trade right before them because your stop- loss will likely get slipped and you will likely lose a lot of money more than you thought so don't be stupid and try to gamble news however use it as a road map okay you should expect for there to be volatility in these days so you would expect the manipulation and the distribution to probably occur when there's the most high impact news so very important that you look at that when you're doing your bias so the next thing you'd want to do is move to the Daily time frame and see what is the daily time frame to telling you okay well in this example this is the same exact thing we just looked at you have that Weekly fair value Gap Market swept out the previous days candle and engulfed so you have a very bullish bias now I know you might be thinking oh what if the market has different you know tells me different things what if the Market's not in alignment don't trade okay so many people I work with they just can't get it in their head that there will be times you can't call the market now I cannot stress enough the importance that you understand that the goal here is not to just be able to call the Market all the time I recently had a call with someone they said know I don't want to really learn how to trade all the way I just want to learn how I can look at the chart and tell where the Market's going to go and I told him well if you figure that out please let me know because that's not what trading even is trading is identifying when you have high probability and acting and executing when you do and being able to identify when you don't okay so if you don't have alignment if you don't have high probability then don't trade you're going to be doing the same thing on the daily as you did on the weekly right internal to external we have a fair value Gap so you're expecting the market to move to highs and you have that candle bias telling you the market is bullish so inside of that daily or weekly fair value Gap you're going to want to use Market maker models to confirm so coming into the market we had that Weekly fair value Gap you can look and say oh we had a market structure shift so at this time I have the daily and the weekly telling me we're bullish and I have this overall Market maker model telling me we're bullish high probability so at this time you're just looking for 15minute Market maker models or going back to the pairings I told you earlier right whatever internal or external you're using you're using the lower time frame to the right of these to look for Market maker models to then plot out and navigate the sessions and trade your trades okay so after we've done that you've established for bullish we're looking for internal to external on the 15 minut it and also very very important you're looking to reactions you're looking for reactions to time based liquidity and the opening price now this is the New York session so if you go back to the part of the video about time you'll see that we're looking for the 7:30 open and you're looking for time based liquidity now look at this example we had taken out the London low and we had taken out the 6 to 7:30 which is the first quarter of New York and you'd taken out Asian session before so you're expecting the market to likely move to the upside because you're bullish on the higher time frames you've gotten the London low taken out you've moved away from the 730 opening price in a manipulation swing you've taken out time based liquidity at this time all you're looking for is an entry confirmation and at that time you can take the market much higher to the previous day's high or opposing time based liquidity such as that or such as the London high you can also even take profit at the opening price if it's far enough away but you only want to do that when you're anticipating consolidation okay so now let's talk about our entry checklist all you need is two or more of these things on your checklist to have occurred in order to have higher probability okay the more you have the better so you want to make sure your higher time frames equal your lower time frames in the example we just used so what that would mean is our lower time frame is equal to our higher time frame we're bullish on The Daily and the weekly and we're bullish on this 4 Hour okay all the time frames are equal okay now in this example we would have wanted this to be bullish if we want our lower time frame to be equal to that so in this example you didn't actually have a pure you know fullon alignment but that's why we just need two or more of our entry checklist so you can check for those Market maker models in those moves but you also need to look for manipulation beyond the session open or time based liquidity swept so in that setup we had this right here we also had a higher time frame key level and we had a clear higher time frame bias okay this has to happen in order for you to even look for your entry checklist without this you don't even look here okay very very important these don't apply if you don't have a clear bias so you have two or more now the one that is required here is a lower time frame confirmation because you need some kind of shift or something telling you that the market is going to move in your direction on top of these other confluences you have here or here okay oh for this is the targeting forgive me anyways so what is a lower time frame confirmation we're going to focus on three which is the market structure shift smt Divergence or inverted fair value Gap these are just your RP wire or kind of your Quee to pull the trigger and this is the very last thing you look for I see so many Traders just use this and then wonder why they suck at trading anyways so you want to look for a key level right so we have a key level being an old high that's the first step now we already have checked off a couple of the checklists from what we just talked about so we're going to focus on the actual entry model so a market structure shift is just that it's a shift and impulse structure now notice the market had been making higher highs and then what happened we took out a low and created a fair value Gap once the market trades into that fair value Gap you can look to trade with a stop loss of the first candle on the fair value Gap you could also put your stop loss above here if you like but often times if you put your stop there if the market goes there it's probably going to go here too so this can help you a lot with your risk to reward now you always want to Target at least two R but we're going to be able to get much further if we're pairing everything I've taught you in this course together for example in the price example that we just talked about right this is the exact 15minute view of this right here right I'm sorry the one minute view of this right here this is the 15-minute chart down here is the one minute view so as soon as you have all those things we've taken out the London low we have checked off our boxes as soon as it gets to be 9:30 right here it happens right at 9:30 don't expect that always to happen but as soon as you have that market structure shift that is a trade entry right you can look to take a trade right there and notice we didn't just Target Two R we're able to Target opposing time based liquidity because that higher time frame was bullish right remember this goes back to the fact that we had a clear bias in the higher time frame and a clear Market maker model right here now this was the high we're targeting in this example notice how we're not targeting all the way up here we're not targeting we're not swinging for the fences because we're day Traders we're just using this to identify what way the river is Flowing we're not using this to to trade that entire move okay now the other entry models are going to be smt and ifvs or inverted fair value gaps so an smt can occur before a market structure shift happens so notice this price leg was very expansive down it took a little while for us to get that market structure shift and you could have got a trade entry right here but with smt you were able to get up much earlier okay so on NASDAQ you had a lower low and on ES you didn't you had a higher low so as soon as that low is confirmed you're able to take a trade now make sure you wait for the candle to close after that the low that is in question because until the next candle closes you don't really have a low right like this isn't a low until this candle closes with a higher low than it okay so at that time you're able to execute the trade and then you target based on the time based liquidity that's really where you're always going to pair your trades is opposing time based liquidity because if the market is bullish if you're right it's likely to move past those areas because the market in order to be bullish if you have a if you have a bullish day usually it's going to take out the previous day's high or at least the previous session's high so those are great times to take off of your trade and it becomes very objective in terms of targeting next let's talk about the inverted fair value Gap okay inverted fair value Gap can be an excellent signal for entries and it comes before a market structure shift so we have a fair value Gap right here as soon as the market closes a candle under it you're able to execute the trade and if you notice right here the market structure shift didn't really happen till all the way over here and you would have had to have your entry down here which would have almost doubled the size of your stop loss which then pretty much Cuts your profits in half because your risk reward is so much lower so inverted fair value gaps smt or Market structure shift they can all be used interchangeably and just like anything else I've taught you if you have two or more of them or maybe all three that is even higher probability so here is the entry checklist again you can download this whole board the links in the description has all of this here for you now let's talk about risk management so R equals the total draw down divided by the the number of consecutive losses okay so in order to really understand how to determine what an R is for you I I see so many rookie Trader they say just risk a static amount just risk 1% I think that's really stupid to be honest because for some people they might be able to risk more or they might be able to risk less for example if you're a highrisk reward Trader you probably should risk less because you're win rate's probably lower so the number of consecutive losses is probably higher so you need to figure out by data and if you're not tracking your data using something like trade Zella which I have a link down to in the description but if you're not tracking your data and journaling it you don't really know what you're doing you don't have a business and you're just a gambler okay so you need to understand what is the likelihood that you're going to have you know 10 losses in a row well if you have 10 losses in a row if that's something that can happen to you you want to take the draw down that your prop firm has allowed you or the draw down that you are willing to incur on your personal account and you want to divide that by 10 losses okay that is your r that's what you risk per trade so you're going to start with one of those from Break Even if you're just at Zero now if you get to two R profit you can risk two R now I want to be clear that if you're trading on a trailing draw down prop firm like Apex or TOP Step this I wouldn't do unless you've already got funded and you've built a cushion and the trailing draw down has stopped okay very important now this I would recommend doing regardless now this is if you're in draw down you're going to cut your risk in half this is going to protect you from going on tilt it's also going to protect you from losing streaks and losing an account just because of a couple bad trades now on the day and this is part of risk management that a lot of people ignore you need to stop if you get two losses or one win on the day and as long as you have a two r or better risk to reward then your losing days can never outweigh your winning days another note to have is that trimming is better than Break Even stops trimming you will secure some money and eliminate risk and your risk of getting stopped out is lower for example let say if you're in a trade from right here and the market you know had already been moving the market could come up and stop you out before reaching your target let's say if this is your target instead of putting stops to break even right and you could just leave your stop up here what you should do is just trim half because you just eliminated half of the loss you'll take if the market actually did move all the way up and what that allows you is having room for the market to move higher and still go to your target okay cool little gem for you guys now I just gave you everything that you need in order to become a profitable Trader but if you want to join my community and trade with me live and really just surround yourself full of awesome people who are getting crazy results um consistently and not only are they getting funded they're actually getting 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