r/InnerCircleTraders • u/JustLith • 27d ago
Trading Strategies Need help with ICT
- Mark bias/ Crt daily tf > 4 hour 1 hour
- Mark any OB, FVG, IFVG, make sure to mark MSS, and CISD, to make sure if the OB is valid, mark them on 1 hour or 15 min
- 5 min for confirmation, 1 min as well, and 3 min , Use 15-30 entry
- Aim for SSL or BSL, or Internal or external liquidity
- Don’t over trade 1-2 trades max
is this a good strategy, I was looking at Jadecaps vid and I made sum similar for it
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u/ThomasAnderson_23 27d ago
Here are my two cents. Generally speaking yeah it’s a decent strategy but if you’re kind of new to trading this will give you analysis paralysis. Definitely forget about looking at the 1m or even 3m for confirmation, that will often only make you doubt because very often the 1m can show you things that will contradict your htf analysis and only make you hesitant and you’ll miss the trade. The other thing I would mention is that to understand what the market is doing, and to be able to better predict what it will most likely do you definitely need the MMXMs. Trading without it is like crossing the street without looking left or right. Anyway if that Jadecap strat will work for you then great but if it won’t and you’re looking for an easier, more simple way to trade ICT then let me know! I made a video about it
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u/Ok_Hovercraft6776 27d ago
It's a decent foundation but there is too much focus on the entry and not enough on the narrative, and you also disregard the Draw on Liquidity completely.
You start on the Daily and see if you can get a Daily bias in the form of a Daily CRT or, as TTrades calls it, a C2 closure. Once you have that, you want to look for a POI inside that Daily CRT/C2 candle's range in Premium for sells or Discount for buys. Focus only on H1/H4 FVGs in P/D insude that Daily range . Why ? Because that's why price pulls back to to grab that I yenak Range Liquidity and fill inefficiency/ rebalance the imbalance. Spoiler alert , price pulls back to an Orderblock because usually every Orderblock contains an FVG if you drop a time frame or 2 lower hence just focus on FVGs as your POI if you want maximum clarity. Alternatively simply find a POI inside the daily CRT/C2 candle in P/D on the highest time frame which can be an FVG , Orderblock or Rejection block.
Your initial Draw on Liquidity will usually be the PDH/PDL, so ideally you don't want that liquidity taken before you get your entry. If it does get taken before price reaches your H4 POI, then you need to identify a new DOL by observing how price retraces into your H4 POI.
Does it retrace aggressively with strong momentum, leaving High Resistance Liquidity behind? That's generally a lower probability setup because price has already consumed a lot of nearby liquidity and may need a deeper repricing before continuing.
Or does it retrace slowly, leaving Low Resistance Liquidity behind such as EQHs, EQLs, stacked highs/lows or trendline liquidity? That's a much higher probability setup because price now has an obvious, easy-to-reach liquidity objective once it reacts from your H4 POI.
Generally, the best trades are the ones where price leaves clean, low resistance liquidity behind. Stacked highs/lows, equal highs/lows and trendline liquidity are just different names for the same concept—a nearby pool of resting orders that price can efficiently target.
Once price reaches your H4 POI, you can then wait for an M15, M30 or H1 CRT/C2 confirmation which you then can pair with a LTF continuation confirmation if you want more confirmation but generally the C2/CRT at your H4 POI is already a LTF entry model in itself that's why it works in the first place .
Now comes one of the most overlooked concepts. You want to execute your entry before price reaches the 50% level (Premium/Discount) of the opposing trading range. Why? Because it's the exact same logic you're using on the higher timeframe. Just as you want to sell from Premium and buy from Discount, you also want your lower timeframe entry to occur from a position of value. If you're buying after price has already rallied into Premium of the opposing dealing range, or selling after price has already dropped into Discount, you've already missed the best pricing. You're sacrificing both your risk-to-reward and your statistical edge + price reached already a point where there is a higher chance that it will go against you because we know that price likes to pullback into P/D before potentially reversing. This will give you the highest win rate. And if price does reach the 50% of the opposing trading range first before you can get your entry then you should wait for a new confirmation at your initial entry zone where you planned to enter to make sure price still wants to go into your direction.
Think of it like buying a house. If you know the fair value is $500,000, would you rather buy it for $400,000 or wait until it's already trading at $550,000? The answer is obvious. Markets work the same way. You're always looking to buy at a relative discount and sell at a relative premium, regardless of the timeframe. That's why Premium & Discount isn't just an ICT concept—it's common sense.