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What New Traders Should Focus On
ICT Concepts Used in This Module:
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The Theory of Liquidity Raids or Stop Hunts.
Introduction to Liquidity Pools.
How To Locate High Probability Liquidity Pools.
Introduction of the ICT Order Block
High Accuracy Entry Points.
Low Draw Down Entry Tactics.
High Probability Targeting.
Benefits Of Scaling Profits.
How To Make More When You Are Wrong.
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Think completely opposite to retail
Retail → Elliott wave, Supply & demand, harmonic patterns, chart patterns etc
All you need to know is Open, Close, Low, High
Equal highs & Equal lows are the easiest & most common points we see in charts
Equal highs = double top & Equal lows = double Bottom
Retail -> If Equal highs / lows = double top / bottom occurred then retail thinks it’s a good
opportunity to enter long
Institutions -> Institutions thinks in different way & opposite to retail
their aim is hunt the liquidity of the retails
They know there will SL above the Equal highs & SL below Equal Lows
Below Double Bottom = Equal Lows = Retail Liquidity = Sell Stops
Above Double Top = Equal Highs = Retail Liquidity = Buy Stops
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From this pic, price has taken the liquidity above the old high & breakdown, after breakdown
price went for consolidation mode
At the Equal lows Zone retails think a double bottom & price started to move up as retail
buying
But Institutions knows there is great liquidity below the equal lows & they gonna hunt those
SL of retail
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Price always moves to the levels where the liquidity of the retail & orders of the institution
resides
Orders reside above old high & below old low
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ICT Optimal trade entry [ OTE ]
FIB tool used = at old low
Look for equal lows or highs
62% to 70% retracements level = short entry level
Now we cam see the price taking out the old low & then the targets
Here all the liquidity below Equal Lows are grabbed & price pumped hard after liquidity grab
What is we don’t have ICT Optimal trade entry [ OTE ] opportunity on charts
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Focus on the pink marked area with the Up Green candle at that area
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ICT Bearish Order Block = Here Green / Up candle at the consolidation phase which is prior
to the down move
Every Up candle & down candle doesn’t make OB , there has to be context for that OB
When we see the up candle during the liquidity hunting phase below or above Equal
lows/highs Smart money will be selling / shorting at that candle
In the very next candle of the BE OB price retrace back to BE OB low, i.e., Low of the BE OB &
closed at the low
This is low risk entry
If Short is valid then the Up / Green candle will hold the price below it until the targets are
achieved
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Entry for Short = Low of the Up Candle BE OB
When the very next Down candle of the BE OB retraces to the Low of the BE OB that’s the
entry
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Exit = 20 Pips below the Equal lows / Above the Equal highs
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