ICT said tonight, that this is the hardest that the market’s ever been in his 30 years, be proud of yourself for learning in this kinda environment, when it gets better we are all gonna eat. Thanks to everyone that shares insights to help me, I try and do the same in return.
April Manipulation - Best times
- 2nd or 3rd week
- Tuesday or Wednesday
- 01:30 - 04:30 or 07:30 - 10:30
- If Monday consolidates trade Tuesday
- If Monday expands trade Wednesday
- Asia consolidating trade london 01:30 - 04:30
- Asia expanding trade NY 07:30 - 10:30
Today makes a year of studying pure price action, Im proud of how far I came, Its been a lot of ups and downs and 1000’s of demo trades and hundreds and hundreds of hours watching videos and testing things I seen from others
What did I learn from it all the most - Trade the LTF
Notes on
@traderdaye
breakdown of 90min cycles, Everything here you can find on his page if this interests you, useful material for the creation of your models. I don’t wanna share to much of his content as he put in the work to compile it together for us. Reference his page.
Im about to help change the game, Im gonna give y’all extra confluence with Tick grid and the DR/IDR and when the VIB GIB is released, it should be the only 4 tools you need to be a scalp technician.
@IamMas7er
I honestly wont know how anyone can fail with this.
Tough to beat - 12 years of data. IDR/DR - One man came and took twitter by storm, Came to put all this effort into helping us and NEVER asked for a penny, Upmost respect too you and glad to be apart and given this knowledge.
@IamMas7er
❤️
Slow and steady wins, Started at $650 on Jan 30th, I try and stick with mostly 5 handles, 2 ES contracts only. Averaging about 15 min a day, less stressful and minimal loss. Learning discipline, I was lacking, Seeing a big difference. Thought I had to trade more to get more.
You get a chance check this code out it’s pretty slick
@toodegrees
, not sure if you ever implemented something like this, if you already know please ignore.
I know everyone uses IPDA ranges and they are beast, but when I first started learning premium and discount, this is what I seen to tell me a lot, Us being at Fair market value of most recent swing the reason we are getting this action. Same way I drew this conclusion it works.
You don’t need 90 min cycles, true openings, none of that shit.
You don’t need 100 lines on your chart.
What you need is very minimal, you don’t need none of that shit
I done been down that road, you just need the right levels, inside the kill zones
The HTF and some patients
Only thing I’m still kinda confused about is the yearly cycle.
True year open - April
Q1 - January - March - Accumulation
Q2 - April - June - Manipulation - Best months
Q3 - July - September - Distribution 1 - Best months
Q4 - October - December - Distribution 2
@traderdaye
So I transcribed
@StkishTCM
DOL liquidity lecture then ran it through Chat GPT, now I’m gonna watch it again and add or subtract all the key insights and make sure they are in there, then get it converted to PDF
ICT is a true blessing, It strikes me too fathom all the time he put into this, he’s truly one of a kind artist, there will never ever be another man like him, in this field. Ever. Sometimes I wonder what his wife felt like, I know how mine feels when I deep study.
@I_Am_The_ICT
Open - High - Low - Close
HTF Open & Close = LTF Order block levels
LTF High & Lows = Liquidity / In between = liquidity void
High probability Order-block levels are above or below liquidity
Its how the market cooks, Fuck the rest
I been using this periodically (Liquidity Swings) so I just look for the areas with the most liquidity to take, once they take, I think thats how
@romeos
knows which turtle soups to take, the ones with the most liquidity🤣
@ICT_Concepts
@I_Am_The_ICT
40 years old, beautiful fiancé and 16 year old daughter, 10 years with the railroad as a machine operator, I run a ballast plow on a tie gang, I travel for work. Fuck Carl. Seeking financial freedom.
When I was young, I was down and out, lost my girl friend, truck broke down, had to go stay back at moms, I sat outside and I was looking up at the night sky saying what am I gonna do this time, I heard a voice say, “Give it time son”.
20 years passed since then, TIME❤️
As
@StkishTCM
repeats, Bias is bullshit, where is the liquidity, where has it been taken, where has it not, liquidity to liquidity. The Algo has 2 jobs. Liquidity and rebalancing Imbalance. As
@Romeotpt
repeats, consolidation, expansion repeat.
You see SMT then you see that, hit it with 4 contracts, get 5 handles, risk is dynamic. Be patient and dont stare at the charts all day, you dont need to, periodically peek at the charts during the day I guarantee you are not missing nothing.
@Stockrateez94
I stole your drawing
As you can see, the SMT divergence don’t get picked up on $NQ. It’s something I hold dear to my heart and gifting, it’s been backtested and proven by myself over 6 months. It’s a gift from me since I been helped by many. I called many shots from this tool.
Just give it time, don’t worry about the others that mastered sir model that they are good at, just keep practicing everything will come at the right TIME, don’t give up.
My fiancé said dont share knowledge to everyone, they are to lazy to figure all this out on their own and people don’t appreciate free, I have that little itch to help someone cause I didn’t have it when I first started, I thought, Its only candles, How can these things hold this
I marked AM SMT on 5m, theres been a occurrence every morning IF you can catch it, every one is a guaranteed 5 handles, not looking at anything else just hunting it. Consistency everyday with 2 contracts at 5 handles is around $500 on ES. Thats $126k per year at 252 trading days.
My valentine, spent it in Dallas finishing up a hitch, sometimes we have to sacrifice to bring the money back home, three years strong, now my fiancé. ~CHoCH
Monthly OB are top g, If you can spot them in time, have a alert set, many factors that will cause you not to see everything all the time, but if you do, Big reward, The close of the previous candle, there could be some spread (Gap) in between the open and close, chose the close.
I’m trying to find random spots in time, but it repeats
@IamMas7er
several confluences in one setup after DR/IDR confluence. I’ll post some setups as price unfolds in coming days. The Tick grid is a golden tool.
Not as best of entry, I’m a perfectionist but none the less happy with progress, no I’m not here for fucking likes, but to show hard work pays off in the end and don’t give up.
Some gold nuggets from
@StkishTCM
latest video he shared with us, got started on video last night, can’t process to much info at once, little at a time.
"Dude, let me tell you somethin', when it comes to the stock market, it's all about the failure swings, man. That's where the real green is, the liquidity man, it's like a never-ending joint of greenbacks, you dig?
I didn’t discover these rejection blocks, it was shown to me through a video that
@Matthewwmickey1
did with a friend and he was nailing everything with these rejection blocks and it is very fascinating how he knows how to find the correct ones so easy and very precise. Im close
@ICT_Concepts
MAS7er was saying in a video that a majority are only watching tid bits of his videos, and they are only 15m long. So can you imagine what they are doing with ICT 1.5 hour videos.
Mitigation block - From my understanding, some important rules comes with these blocks. I get the block names wrong sometimes but looking to correct that this year.
I either read something wrong somewhere, but saved my ass by averaging up. SMT, ITL broke, traded back into FVG, price didn’t react how I wanted it too with this setup, came out with profit.
That breaker is also a Intermediate term low (ITL) by the FVG to the left being broken by a displacement candle to the right then retraced back into breaker/FVG for a short. Here it is reversed.
I was just looking at something, The Tick grid divergence on 1m inside the MACROS, presented 2 trades today. I’ll prolly look back on this to see how many times divergence forms inside a macro, and can if you get 5 handles each time
WICKS
These HTF (low-Open) & (High-Open) are extremely powerful time and time again.
Breaker block levels on a HTF ( High-Low-Higher High) & Vice versa.
You can see PRICE trip up in the circle before Breaking above then continuing higher.
Higher the TIME frame the bigger the
I’ll figure out Romeos rejection block little deal he got going on, he holding out, talking bout it’s core 4, naw dawg core 4 is vauge AF, I don’t stress I’ll reverse engineer that shit
We focus on different things depending on the market condition. In an expanding market, we concentrate on order blocks, retracement conditions on imbalances and consolidations we focus on the 50% level, while in reversals, we focus on liquidity pools.
Same rules mixed with 90 min cycles todays review, These are made to go with the
@StkishTCM
OB notes Im still working on, Trying to make notes more visual to help make more sense. Work in progress.
I been starting
@StkishTCM
videos before getting done with the others, but most need charts to show examples in all fairness. Work on finding the examples in the charts soon as I get time. Times most important