The Full Guide On How To Create Your Own
ICT TRADING
SETUP
Mulham Trading
TABLE OF CONTENT
1
INTRODUCTION
2
BASIC SETUP
3
SETUP CRITERIA
4
ADDITIONAL
CONFLUENCES
6
TIME FRAMES
7
KILLZONES
8
MACROS
9
PUTTING ALL
TOGETHER
10
MODELS/SETUPS
INTRODUCTION
This book is for people who finished learning all
ICT concepts, but still lost. They do not know
what do to now, and they cannot figure out their
own setup. This book will be your guide to
inspire you to create your own setup. I also
included 4 models that you can backtest and
use, while the last one being my favorite.
Remember, this book will only be useful for
people who are already familiar with ICT
concepts.
Disclaimer: This is only a humble try to simplify
and help beginners. All credit is to the man
himself, ICT, who invented the concepts and I
learned from.
-Mulham Trading
1
BASIC SETUP
The main components of the 2022 ICT
mentorship setup are:
1. Sweep of Liquidity or Price reaching POI
(Point of interest)
2. Price reacts aggressively with a
displacement to the other side
3. The move in "2" causes a Change of
Character (CHoCH), AKA Market Structure
Shift (MSS)
On the left is a blueprint of the basic mode,
while on the left is trade example on ES1!
We will try to learn how to make variants with
higher win rates, and more precise entries with
more reward to risk ratio.
2
SETUP CRITERIA
One criteria is choosen from each category to
create the setup that fits you.
1
Liquidity Sweep | POI | Both
Liquidity: Swing highs/lows | Previous day's high/low |
Previous week's high/low | Equal highs/lows
POI: Order Block (OB) | Fair Value Gap (FVG) |
Breaker Block (BB)
2
FVG | OB
For entry, either FVG or OB is used
3
TYPE OF ENTRY (CONFIRMATION)
a. After the CHoCH, you enter on the FVG/OB1
b. After the CHoCH, you wait for price to trade through
the FVG, you switch to a lower time frame, and you
look for a CHoCH/BOS with a LTF FVG where you
entered from there
Entry a
Entry b
3
ADDITIONAL CONFLUENCES
More conflunces can be implemented to the
setup to improve the setup
1
Premuim/Discount | Daily Bias
Long trades are allowed on discount, and short trades
on premuim. Gann Box can be used to to identify
premuim and discount zones. Daily Bias is taken into
account too
2
Inducement | Liquidity
When there is an inducement/liquidity above the FVG
for example, it is a higher probability to go long. On
ther other hand, it is a higher probability go short when
there is an inducement/liquidity below the FVG
4
ADDITIONAL CONFLUENCES (cont.)
3
Optimal Trade Entry (OTE)
Only take the trade when the FVG is on the OTE zone
which is 0.618-0.79 using Fib Retracement tool.
4
SMT Divergence
SMT Divergence occurs when there is a divergence .
between the lows/highs of the correlated pairs.
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TIME FRAMES
Your time frames used in the setup should be
related. You cannot use a 4H sweep or POI and
then use the M1 for CHoCH. It is not logical.
When using entry type a, you can use HTF and
MTF. On the other hand, for entry type b, you
can use HTF, MTF, and LTF, or MTF, MTF and LTF.
For example, M15/M5 sweep, M5 FVG, M1 FVG.
My suggestions for the time frames are as
following:
Type/TF
HTF
MTF
LTF
Type 1
4H
1H
M15
Type 2
1H
M15
M5
Type 3
M15/M5
M5
M1
6
KILL ZONES
KZ are are the specific time periods when we
will look for our setup as there is more volume in
the market
Forex
LONDON OPEN
2:00-5:00
NEW YORK OPEN
7:00-10:00
LONDON CLOSE
10:00-12:00
Indicies
LONDON OPEN
2:00-5:00
NEW YORK AM
8:30-11:00
NEW YORK LAUNCH
12:00-13:00
NEW YORK PM
13:30-16:00
7
MACROS
Taking setups within these macro time slots will
increase your trade probability as a setup will
most likely occur in one of thosr time slots.
LONDON
2:33-3:00
4:03-4:30
NEW YORK AM
8:50-9:10
9:50-10:10
10:50-11:10
NEW YORK LUNCH & PM
11:50-12:10
13:10-13:40
15:15-15:45
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PUTTING ALL TOGETHER
Now, you will need to pick one option from each
criteria (1-3) and add conflunces to that. In
general, the more conflunces you add, the
higher the win rate, but the less trades you will
find as it is harder to find a trade with lots of
confluences. Pick on type of the time frames
types. It depends if you like to hold trades for
longer time, or just scalping very quick. The next
pages will be different setup variants, just from
the criteria and conflunces explained above. It
shows how easy it will be to create your own
successful setup just by following those steps.
Tip: After skimming over the models, only pick or
create one setup, backtest it, master it, start on
demo with risk management, and see the results.
Don't over complicate it.
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MODELS/SETUPS
MODEL 1
LONG
SHORT
Checklist
HTF Liquidity Sweep/POI (OB/FVG)
LTF Liquidity Sweep
CHoCH with Displacement & FVG
10
MODELS/SETUPS (CONT.)
MODEL 1 EXAMPLES
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MODELS/SETUPS (CONT.)
MODEL 2
LONG
SHORT
Checklist
HTF Liquidity Sweep/POI (OB/FVG)
LTF Liquidity Sweep
CHoCH with Displacement & FVG
FVG In OTE (0.618-0.79)
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MODELS/SETUPS (CONT.)
MODEL 3
LONG
SHORT
Checklist
HTF Liquidity Sweep/POI (OB/FVG)
LTF Liquidity Sweep
CHoCH with Displacement & FVG
Inducement (IDM) or internal liquidity
is formed
FVG In OTE (0.618-0.79)
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MODELS/SETUPS (CONT.)
MODEL 3 EXAMPLES
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MODELS/SETUPS (CONT.)
MODEL 4 (effective, yet difficult to find)
LONG
SHORT
Checklist
HTF Liquidity Sweep/POI (OB/FVG)
LTF Liquidity Sweep
CHoCH With Displacement & FVG
Price Trades Through The FVG
LTF CHoCH With Displacement & FVG
Enter On LTF FVG
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MODELS/SETUPS (CONT.)
MODEL 4 EXAMPLE
HTF
LTF
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