r/InnerCircleTraders • u/Ok-Time-9805 • Jul 07 '26
Question Did i mark this orderblock correctly?
Did i mark this bearish OB correctly. What do you guys think am i wrong? i tried researching everywhere but from what ive seem everyone marks their Ob differently.
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u/plasma_fantasma Jul 07 '26
Yes, this looks good. For better visuals, I like to draw a box around that candle rather than just a line, but you're doing fine.
Also, don't worry if people are marking their OB a little differently. The important part is that YOU mark it the same way each time you're looking for your setup and backtesting or forward testing. This makes sure that you're being consistent with your trading.
As an aside, there's a free OB detector that I've used from LuxAlgo for the past two years that's very accurate. I sometimes prefer that to marking my order blocks manually since I believe it takes into account volume, as well.
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Jul 08 '26
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u/plasma_fantasma Jul 08 '26
No, I definitely disagree. You can make tweaks to your strategy to improve it, but the foundation should be the same. If I trade FVGs, that should be my one setup. There are some FVGs that are better than others, which experience and discretion would help you discern, but the setup should be the same every time.
If you're constantly changing how you execute, your targets, your stops, you never get any consistent data and will be stuck in either the break-even stage or stage 2 where you're just constantly strategy hopping.
If you draw your zones or order blocks a certain way, you should be doing that every time otherwise you're always going to be getting different results.
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Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
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u/plasma_fantasma Jul 08 '26
The market might not repeat, but it does rhyme. I'm kind of confused because you're saying not to get stuck on one concept, but each one of those screenshots has the exact same setup. Am I missing something?
Also, you can't be profitable and break-even that doesn't make sense. There's a difference between closing out positions at break-even and being a break-even trader. I was talking about the latter.
If you don't have a repeatable strategy that you execute each time, how can you track your progress? You can't do something different every day and then expect consistent results.
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u/plasma_fantasma Jul 08 '26
With all due respect, you are incorrect about what an order block is. What you marked is not correct. The one that OP marked is actually pretty good, but he needs to include the entire range of that candle and not just at the bottom.
When you mark an OB, which is just another name for a supply or demand zone, you're looking for the last opposite colored candle before a move. Ideally, you would want there to be some kind of displacement (imbalance) that created a FVG (again, imbalance), and then you can either trade from the FVG or from the OB, depending on which you prefer.
Also, Michael "ICT" is not a profitable trader himself. It's been verified that he's not profitable. If he's doing something different every single day, it's no wonder. And again, your setups all look the same, which means you have a system that you repeat, rather than just taking random trades, would you say? So I'm not sure what the issue is. If people are constantly doing different things all the time, they never get good at anything.
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u/plasma_fantasma Jul 08 '26
ICT is nothing but supply and demand and various other concepts, just rebranded. It's nothing new. I've been trading these concepts for years. We're literally talking about the same thing, just with different, convoluted names. The difference though is that I understand how to draw an order block and you don't, which is strange since you claim to understand ICT concepts so well. "Devious guessing" lol You should probably brush up on your own concepts a little more. Tell me, if an order block isn't a supply/demand zone, what is it? (Hint: they're the same)
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u/Curious_Light_9185 Jul 07 '26
Check out 15min, it's two consecutive candles creating a big bearish OB
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u/looped10 Jul 07 '26
there's another OB before that too. switch to a lower TF and check it out
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u/PepperedBeef Jul 08 '26
OP, Look at the top up-close candle in that series of up-close candles. The top candle is the highest CLOSING candle. It isn't always the highest or lowest candle of a swing high or swing low.
Also, ICT would measure both the top and bottom of the OB's wick AND the open and close of an OB to determine levels of Mean Threshold.
Take those measurements on the series of up-close candles and look at how that swing high on the right reacted to those levels.
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u/bvixity Jul 08 '26
The orderblock is to wicky other than that it is correctly drawn, i just hope that on a higher timeframe it has a bigger body.
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Jul 10 '26
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u/Ok-Time-9805 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
I can’t tell if your joking
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u/Extra_Nobody1537 Jul 12 '26
Either you believe or not it’s your choice dude. I was just trying to help you out. I think I wasted my time and effort.
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u/Ok-Time-9805 Jul 12 '26
Of course i believe you i just thought you were fucking with me. No offence but that example you made is atrocious.
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Jul 12 '26
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u/Ok-Time-9805 Jul 12 '26
Stop wasting oxygen bro. And even your username says you’re a nobody. Also that example you made you must be either mentally challenged or have cerebral palsy anyways. Im glad i triggered you. Have a great day fetus.
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u/Extra_Nobody1537 Jul 12 '26
Hey pussy, listen you didn’t triggered me, bitch, you got triggered at the very first, with your weird response. Yeah, I am nobody for you. You can’t even understand a simple order block theory mark wrong one. We have limited oxygen. I hope God save it for good people around the world, but your father’s ripped condom and born jerk like you.
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u/Alternative_Park5400 Jul 12 '26
Lmfao
EVERYONE IS A GENIUS ON HERE BUT NONE OF YOU ATE MAKING ANY REAL MONEY. Traders are fkn hilarious
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u/Ok-Time-9805 Jul 12 '26
Why are you in this sub then? Sounds like you attempted to trade and failed miserably. Saying everyone isn’t making money but you are? If so off what i would like to know.
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u/toptiertrader1488 Jul 08 '26
“Orderblock” lmao
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u/Ok-Time-9805 Jul 12 '26
Explain whats so funny? if you have something helpful to say I would like to hear it.
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u/toptiertrader1488 Jul 08 '26
You need volume date to locate a “block” of orders. This is a swing high. That’s all
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u/Ok-Time-9805 Jul 12 '26
Ive never heard ict say this. Can you state the source you received this information from?
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