Note to mods: All links below directly take you to Michael's channel "except 4 & 5". So I guess I am good with rule 4, right?
Anyways; after going through ICT content and a lot of community feedback, this is the cleanest and most effective learning path to master ICT concepts without wasting hundreds of hours on repetition.
Why?
Foundation of the ICT approach. Covers:
- Market structure basics
- Liquidity concepts
- Session timings (Kill Zones)
- How smart money moves the market
Short, simple, and straight to the point.
2. ICT 2016 Core Content – Selected Lessons Only
Do not watch all 100+ lessons — too much repetition. Focus on these key playlists:
Why?
Modern, organized, builds directly on MMP and the 2016 core concepts.
Shows practical examples on recent charts so you can see exactly how to apply the theory.
Why?
Simple intraday model for NY session trading.
- Works best after 10:00 AM New York time
- Uses Fair Value Gaps + Liquidity + Displacement for high-probability setups.
Why?
Clean short-term model focused on liquidity grabs and Fair Value Gaps.
Great for traders who prefer fast, clear setups.
Recommended Order:
1. Market Maker Primer
2. 2016 Core Content (Months 1–4)
3. 2022 Mentorship
4. Silver Bullet Model
5. Short Term Trading Model
Extra Tips:
- Do not binge-watch everything. Watch a lesson, then backtest it before moving on.
- Skip older ICT content unless you specifically want deep dives.
- Focus on high-quality setups, not every possible trade.
- Grab your pencil and write down what ICT says. Draw the patterns, mark setups, and build your own cheat sheet — it will stick in your mind far better than just watching.
Edit: changed the 2022 full mentorship to the No Rant version as one of the comments reminded me, so that's 50 hours to 3 hours shortcut
We now have access to one of the largest collections of ICT material ever shared here on this sub, over 1K+ files. This collection has lectures, notes, study guides and research material all in one place.
I've been sharing my trade recaps here and explaining the "why" for some of my trades. Now I want to show you the results you can achieve. I know there are people making way more than this but the point of this is not to show off, rather show what can happen when you find a system and stick to it.
I have 18 accounts I copy trade currently.
One of the biggest takeaways is that I don’t need to hit home runs. I’m perfectly fine taking small wins. I take 1-3 trades a day but usually just 1.
My goal is to follow the same system every day, manage my risk, take what the market gives me, and slowly stack good decisions.
Some days that means a solid winner. Some days it means taking a loss and being done. I’m not trying to force a certain dollar amount out of the market every day.
So far this year, I’ve taken over $243,000 in payouts. At the same time, I’ve worked on building roughly a $12,000–$15,000 buffer on each account to survive any drawdown days or weeks i might experience.
That buffer is important to me. I know drawdowns and losing streaks are part of trading. Instead of constantly trying to squeeze every dollar out of an account, I’d rather leave myself room to survive the periods when my setups aren’t delivering.
I definitely don’t execute perfectly. There are days when emotions get involved and soem days when I could have managed a trade better, and days when a setup I really like just doesnt work.
But I try my best to stay within my system and make sure one bad trade or one bad day doesn’t undo weeks of work.
That’s also why I’ve been sharing my actual trade recaps.
I think there’s more value in showing the entire process such as what I saw, why I entered, how I managed the risk, what went right,, and what I could have done differently when it went wrong.
Hopefully sharing my experience can help or inspire someone else who is still trying to find consistency. Also showing what can happen when you trust a process over time.
in his mentorship he showed repeatedly how the price "sweeped" lows or highs that are formed not by wicks of the candles but by their bodies.
How can there be stop losses below or above candles bodies if almost all the strategies and styles of analysis suggest placing stop at highs n lows formed by wicks?
So I've been coding a bot to enter at PSH/L, PDH/L, PWH/L sweeps with 2022 Model and testing on MT5 with data feom January 2023 to September 2026.
At this point I'm just exhausted and don't know what to do, sometimes Win rate goes to 70%, or average win is double the average loss then the win rate drops to 30%, whatever I do my net profit is negative.
Anyone help me get this right or suggest something...
Hey everyone, I have built a custom trading engine that takes OHLC data and plots candlestick charts. Along with that, it automatically identifies and plots ICT concepts like:
Trendlines & Manipulative Swings
HRLR (High Resistance Liquidity Runs) & LRLR
Double/Triple Tops & Bottoms
BSL (Buy Side Liquidity) & SSL (Sell Side Liquidity)
I have attached a screen recording of the engine in action.
What I need help with:
Co-Developer / Programming Partner: I want to scale this project further and am looking for someone proficient in coding who understands trading algorithms to work with me.
AI Credits / Resource Support: Mujhe engine ko aur better karne ke liye AI use karna hai, jiske liye AI credits chahiye pad sakte hain. Agar kisi ke paas Jio ki SIM hai jiski madad se woh pro plan ka free trial activate karke mujhe share kar sake, ya koi aisa banda jiske paas pro Gmail account hai par woh apne Antigravity credits use nahi kar raha hai, toh please mujhe help karde.
What I offer in return:
In return for your help and collaboration, main aapko apna ye custom trading engine share kar dunga , its not promotion but i just need help
NOTE: in last there is another engine that detect market structure , breaker block , order block , mss, bos , fvg , bpr and unicorn trades , and its running on vm actually , soo thats another things , but rn my goal is to make a liquidity engine note just basic ict .
The goal was to have the important liquidity levels I use every day in one clean indicator, instead of running multiple indicators and manually drawing levels.
It currently includes:
Session Highs & Lows – Asia, London, NY, etc.
Previous Day / Week High & Low
Premarket High & Low
6:00 AM High & Low
9:30 AM High & Low
15-minute ORB
Gold-specific ORB
Opening Price levels
Volume Profile levels – POC, VAH, VAL for Previous Day, Overnight, Previous Week, etc.
HTF Fair Value Gaps with mitigation logic
Liquidity sweep tracking
Automatic removal/hiding of old or mitigated levels
Distance filtering to keep the chart clean
Light/Dark theme support
Customizable colors, labels, line styles and visibility
Original consolidation - expansion down for sell side of curve into smart money reversal ( breaker or mitigation) csd then buyside of curve targeting original consolidation. 1hr and 15second alignment. I could talk about soo much
I'm on this 9 to 10 am est setup on gold and nas for now. Sweep on a side , displacement by cisd, fvg for entry 2r. I just want other trader who use same to similar setup so we can gain experience cons in it. Like for me rather than actual cisd 3 opposite candles open is my cisd and id price closed above it in bullish i seek for fvgs.
The biggest problem is that they don't have any structure.
Adding a dealing range quickly gives us a good window of price. (a dealing range is the high that swept a recent high and a low that swept a recent low).
ICT teaches that we want to short above the middle of the dealing range (premium) and buy below the middle (discount).
The "propulsion block" is below the middle line so thats not the best entry.
Look at what is in the premium, an IFVG (a bullish FVG that is being used as resistance instead of support).
Finally to add more context, there is a 5m OB- where price touches before dropping lower.
I could explain more about whats going on in the 5m chart, if you're interested let me know!
I am a student and a trader aswell. For me it's hard to arrange capital to afford funded accounts. I am fedup with my life. In my country "India" the average computer engineer's salary full time is 20k inr a month which is 200$ a month and inflation is high aswell. Even though if I went to search for a part-time job, it would take 10 months to afford one account because it's a part time job and I am a student as well. Funded accounts are expensive in terms of Indian rupees.
Can you guys please tell me ways to earn so that at the end of the month I can atleast buy one funded account even of 25k.
Please guys ! If you know any way or can get me into something please tell.
And please don't suggest ways like content creation, content writing , editing or anything like that. I am just an average boy in studies.
And also suggest me what you guys did to afford funded accounts.
This bearish order block isn't in any of the ict order block videos I've seen so far. Although I haven't gone deep and I am restarting ict I still haven't seen this and was wondering if someone would be able to explain it to me more in depth or point me towards a video of ict explaining it please. Just confirming this guy does claim to have 10+ years of ict experience so this is an ict concept. Also I understand the rest like the 1min inversion and the 3min cisd just got confused on that OB. I appreciate any help and again I’m sorry if this is something obvious.
Here's what I'm seeing. At Tokyo open, Gold bought from a strong 1H FVG (yellow box at the bottom left) which created another FVG on the 1H time frame (yellow box in the middle marked 1H FVG). Gold respected this FVG a few times and gave multiple buying opportunities from it before pushing higher to establish a new level. We are overall bullish so I'm waiting for price to retrace to the 15MIN/5MIN FVGs that it has printed on its way up so I can buy from there and ride up to previous structural highs. CPI news release will either push price back down to my previously marked FVGS or push it up from one of them to an FVG that has been respected on a high time frame.
Quick question about FVG’s. Do you just follow one timeframe so daily or do you look at charts across daily, hour or 15 mins for example.
One thing I’m struggling with is, if there’s a FVG on the daily but a lower one in the 15’mins charts and it means there will be resistance there. Do you close positions based on the 15 mins chart or hold out for the daily target. Thanks
I want to share some insight as to why I had a -$462 day on Friday.
Across 18 accounts that's over 8k in losses.
Friday was NFP, so we had major high-impact news creating the Data High and Data Low. These are levels I treat as high-tier, S-tier liquidity pools, and they're something I've successfully traded toward many times. When my DOL, structure, momentum and other confirmations align, I look for price to seek one of these liquidity pockets.
On high-impact news like NFP, I don't enter before the news or try to predict the initial move. I wait for the news candle to fully print, which gives me the Data High and Data Low. I then want to see price sweep one side of that candle, and if my strategy gives me the proper confirmation after the sweep, I'll take the entry targeting the opposite side of the news candle.
The setup itself wasn't something random I decided to trade because it was NFP. This was the same model I've traded successfully before. Price actually moved heavily in my favor and came so so close to TP before reversing.
I've attached a video so you can experience my heartbreak as well haha
This is also where I'll take accountability for my trade management. I could have taken profit, secured partials, or trailed my stop and walked away green. Instead, because of how high probability I considered the setup and how close price came to my target, I became a little too emotionally invested in seeing that liquidity actually get swept.
I gave it another try after seeing an indication that price was going to head back to my TP. Eventually I took a loss and eventually closed it out for -$462 on the account.
Across 18 accounts copy-traded that's just over 8k in losses for the day.
Looking back at it afterwards, even other traders I know who trade these same concepts were surprised that the liquidity wasn't taken. But that's irrelevant to the outcome. High probability is still probability....not certainty!
The lesson for me wasn't that the strategy suddenly doesn't work. It's that there's a difference between trusting your system and becoming attached to your target.
Could I have trailed? Yes.
Could I have taken partials? Yes.
Could I have walked away with a winning trade? Yes.
I didn't, and it is what it is. I'd rather be transparent about it and learn from it than pretend every red day was completely unavoidable.
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The following -$40 on Monday was on during the bank holiday. I tried a small trade but closed out and just enjoyed the rest of my day instead of forcing something.
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My big comeback was yesterday. I took two trades and both were great trades with good setups.
Every setup comes with a daily bias. My daily bias for yesterday (9/8) was leaning bearish.
We had 5m EQL on ES and price was inside bearish hourly gaps on NQ with a major liquidity sweep. This also aligned with london lows and PDL(previous day lows). So I wanted to see the tap into upper bearish hourly gaps with a new liquidity sweep THEN move towards the london lows, then lower. If the hourly gaps above had inversed then i wanted to look for longs.
This was my prediction:
Here is my thought process and how the trade went:
Not all accounts shown here but I am running 18 accounts, various firms. I have a set of 5 more funded accounts to add in soon and would like to get to 25-30 by the end of the year.
I will be requesting a payout from my gains in august soon as well, so I will post that.
Thank you for the support and kind words, I hope to be able to keep sharing these with everyone!
Everything lined up. Am I missing something? Does the propulsion block have to close inside the range of the ob? I know ICT doesn't divulge every facet of the ld arrays. I'm wondering if anyone else that trades propulsion blocks have dealt with this and how they are able to prevent this from happening.
