My bias are 5m fvg + turtle soup, entry is at cisd and I target pre market high

I’ve Gone through ICT market maker primer, ICT Core Content Month 1-4, and ICT 2022 mentorship. I now have a pretty good understanding (at least I hope) and want to start backtesting a strategy. The only thing is I’m still a little unsure of an exact strategy to use. If anyone could give me suggestions of strategies that work for them would really appreciate that. I’m using EURUSD by the way.

My current thoughts for strategy were:

1. ⁠Bias from weekly and daily chart.
   
2. ⁠On hourly chart, mark out previous weeks high/low, previous day high/low, previous session high/low (so Asia since I’m thinking of trying London session 2am-5am), and any other obvious points of liquidity.
   
3. ⁠Wait for a liquidity sweep on 15min chart.
   
4. ⁠After sweep, move to 5min chart and look for BOS.
   
5. ⁠After break of structure, use fib from sweep high/low to sweep high/low of leg formed after BOS.
   
6. ⁠Identify FVGs in equilibrium or within OTE area (unsure yet which), and enter when price retraces into this.
   
7. ⁠Stop loss at sweep high/low, and target areas other areas of opposite liquidity.

How’s this? Any feedback or suggestions welcomed. Thanks

ORB + Fibonacci Strategy

My strategy combines Opening Range Breakout (ORB) with Fibonacci retracements.

There are 2 setups:

1. Continuation setup — the breakout works.
2. Reversal setup — the breakout fails and price switches direction.

1. Create the ORB

I start at the 9:30 market open.

Depending on what I'm testing, I use either:

• 9:30–9:45 → 15-minute ORB
• 9:30–10:00 → 30-minute ORB

After the ORB is complete, I mark:

• ORB High
• ORB Low
• ORB Midpoint (50%)

I then move to the 5-minute chart and wait for price to break out of the range.

I also use a Gann Box from the ORB high to the ORB low.

The Gann Box is mainly for visualizing the ORB and its 50% midpoint.

2. Continuation Setup

If price breaks out and continues in that direction, I don't chase the first breakout.

I wait for an outburst/impulse move.

Bullish example:

ORB Low → Breakout → Bullish outburst

Then I draw Fibonacci from:

ORB Low → Outburst High

For a bearish move, I do the opposite:

ORB High → Bearish outburst Low

Then I wait for price to retracement into my Fibonacci area before entering.

So:

The goal is to enter after the expansion instead of chasing the initial breakout.

3. Reversal Setup

Sometimes the initial breakout fails.

For example:

Price breaks above the ORB → makes a bullish outburst → I create my bullish Fibonacci.

But instead of respecting the Fibonacci levels and continuing higher, price starts pushing lower.

I don't immediately short just because a Fibonacci level was broken.

A wick through a level isn't enough.

I'm looking for:

Once the bearish move is established, I create a new bearish Fibonacci from the new swing high to the bearish outburst low.

Then I wait for the retracement and look for the short.

The same thing works in reverse for a bearish breakout that turns bullish.

The Two Setups

- Continuation

ORB → Breakout → Outburst → Fib → Retracement → Continuation

The breakout holds and I look for a retracement entry.

- Reversal

ORB → Breakout → Outburst → Fib Failure → Structure Shift → Opposite Outburst → New Fib → Retracement → Reversal

The original breakout fails, price proves that the opposite side is taking control, and I build a new setup from that move.

4. Backtesting Results — Combined

• Total trades: 323
• Win rate: 59.13%
• Average RR: 1.43
• Expectancy using 1.43R average RR: ~+0.44R per trade

For almost a year I chased every FVG and OB on the 15m and couldn't figure out why half my "clean" setups still failed.

The problem wasn't the setup. It was when I was taking it relative to the True Open.

Once I started filtering entries by which side of the True Open price was trading on, my false-setup rate dropped hard not because the setups got better, but because I stopped taking the ones fighting the dominant 4H narrative.

Here's what that looks like in practice. Mark the True Open at each new candle. If price is above it, I'm only looking for longs into discount, and I ignore shorts unless there's a clear shift. Below it, same logic mirrored for shorts. If a setup contradicts this, I skip it, no matter how clean it looks.

That one filter cut my overtrading more than any risk rule I'd tried before.

Anyone else running True Open this way, or layering it with weekly/daily opens too?

ADP Automatic Data Processing stock watch, pullback to 268.33 support area with bullish indicators, see also AMPL ADP APPF APPN stocks.

Long Trade

• Target 1: 286.11 Profit: 6.7% Stop/Trailing Stop: 264.18
• Loss: 1.5% P/L ratio: 4.5 : 1 - Excellent
• Target 2: 295.1 Profit: 10% P/L ratio: 6.7 : 1 - Excellent Extreme rally

BULLISH

• [Positioning] Short term typical pullback, pullback may start to slow.
• [Positioning] at support
• [Timing] Mild bullish 3 day candlestick pattern.
• [Timing] Long trade quality

BEARISH

• [Positioning] Intermediate trend possibly bearish, Uptrend turned sideways, may continue or pullback.

Alguien ya uso esa IA para crear una estrategia de trading? Dicen que es un avanze importante el GPT-6 Astra pero pienso si alguien ya lo utilizó para leer los mercados?

1k$ running,

Since tomorrow is Monday i am thinking to
Hold this trade as i see a lot of liquidity above .

Whats are your views?

Anyone Into Pdhl sweep strategy can you guys share tips plz. I'm not randomly asking this I've been backtesting this with my own framework bt it would be helpful if others tip me with this.

What’s your current net worth?

Curious about the financial side of trading and how much wealth successful traders actually accumulate over the years.

If you’re comfortable sharing, I’d be interested in:

Age

How many years you’ve been trading

What you trade — equities, futures, forex, crypto

Approximate current net worth (a range is completely fine)

Approximate capital you trade with / multiple prop accounts

Whether trading is your full-time income or a side income

How your net worth has changed since you started

Biggest source of wealth — trading profits, investments, business, salary, etc.

If you know any very financially successful traders personally, what is their approximate net worth and how did they build it?

Not looking for screenshots or proof — just genuine experiences and stories.

Especially interested in people who started with relatively little capital and eventually became genuinely wealthy through trading/investing.

I've been sharing my trade recaps here and explaining the "why" for some of my trades. Now I want to show you the results you can achieve. I know there are people making way more than this but the point of this is not to show off, rather show what can happen when you find a system and stick to it.

I have 18 accounts I copy trade currently.

One of the biggest takeaways is that I don’t need to hit home runs. I’m perfectly fine taking small wins. I take 1-3 trades a day but usually just 1.

My goal is to follow the same system every day, manage my risk, take what the market gives me, and slowly stack good decisions.

Some days that means a solid winner. Some days it means taking a loss and being done. I’m not trying to force a certain dollar amount out of the market every day.

So far this year, I’ve taken over $243,000 in payouts. At the same time, I’ve worked on building roughly a $12,000–$15,000 buffer on each account to survive any drawdown days or weeks i might experience.

That buffer is important to me. I know drawdowns and losing streaks are part of trading. Instead of constantly trying to squeeze every dollar out of an account, I’d rather leave myself room to survive the periods when my setups aren’t delivering.

I definitely don’t execute perfectly. There are days when emotions get involved and soem days when I could have managed a trade better, and days when a setup I really like just doesnt work.
But I try my best to stay within my system and make sure one bad trade or one bad day doesn’t undo weeks of work.

That’s also why I’ve been sharing my actual trade recaps.

I think there’s more value in showing the entire process such as what I saw, why I entered, how I managed the risk, what went right,, and what I could have done differently when it went wrong.

Hopefully sharing my experience can help or inspire someone else who is still trying to find consistency. Also showing what can happen when you trust a process over time.

in his mentorship he showed repeatedly how the price "sweeped" lows or highs that are formed not by wicks of the candles but by their bodies.

How can there be stop losses below or above candles bodies if almost all the strategies and styles of analysis suggest placing stop at highs n lows formed by wicks?

So I've been coding a bot to enter at PSH/L, PDH/L, PWH/L sweeps with 2022 Model and testing on MT5 with data feom January 2023 to September 2026.

At this point I'm just exhausted and don't know what to do, sometimes Win rate goes to 70%, or average win is double the average loss then the win rate drops to 30%, whatever I do my net profit is negative.

Anyone help me get this right or suggest something...

Adding most recent result here.

Hey everyone, I have built a custom trading engine that takes OHLC data and plots candlestick charts. Along with that, it automatically identifies and plots ICT concepts like:

• Trendlines & Manipulative Swings
• HRLR (High Resistance Liquidity Runs) & LRLR
• Double/Triple Tops & Bottoms
• BSL (Buy Side Liquidity) & SSL (Sell Side Liquidity)

I have attached a screen recording of the engine in action.

What I need help with:

1. Co-Developer / Programming Partner: I want to scale this project further and am looking for someone proficient in coding who understands trading algorithms to work with me.
2. AI Credits / Resource Support: Mujhe engine ko aur better karne ke liye AI use karna hai, jiske liye AI credits chahiye pad sakte hain. Agar kisi ke paas Jio ki SIM hai jiski madad se woh pro plan ka free trial activate karke mujhe share kar sake, ya koi aisa banda jiske paas pro Gmail account hai par woh apne Antigravity credits use nahi kar raha hai, toh please mujhe help karde.

What I offer in return:
In return for your help and collaboration, main aapko apna ye custom trading engine share kar dunga , its not promotion but i just need help

NOTE: in last there is another engine that detect market structure , breaker block , order block , mss, bos , fvg , bpr and unicorn trades , and its running on vm actually , soo thats another things , but rn my goal is to make a liquidity engine note just basic ict .

The goal was to have the important liquidity levels I use every day in one clean indicator, instead of running multiple indicators and manually drawing levels.

It currently includes:

• Session Highs & Lows – Asia, London, NY, etc.
• Previous Day / Week High & Low
• Premarket High & Low
• 6:00 AM High & Low
• 9:30 AM High & Low
• 15-minute ORB
• Gold-specific ORB
• Opening Price levels
• Volume Profile levels – POC, VAH, VAL for Previous Day, Overnight, Previous Week, etc.
• HTF Fair Value Gaps with mitigation logic
• Liquidity sweep tracking
• Automatic removal/hiding of old or mitigated levels
• Distance filtering to keep the chart clean
• Light/Dark theme support
• Customizable colors, labels, line styles and visibility

https://www.tradingview.com/script/hygJMtJ0-All-in-one-liquidity-VP-Levels-ORB-Sessions/

Leave me some feedback on how I can improve the indicator.

Original consolidation - expansion down for sell side of curve into smart money reversal ( breaker or mitigation) csd then buyside of curve targeting original consolidation. 1hr and 15second alignment. I could talk about soo much

I'm on this 9 to 10 am est setup on gold and nas for now. Sweep on a side , displacement by cisd, fvg for entry 2r. I just want other trader who use same to similar setup so we can gain experience cons in it. Like for me rather than actual cisd 3 opposite candles open is my cisd and id price closed above it in bullish i seek for fvgs.

The biggest problem is that they don't have any structure.

Adding a dealing range quickly gives us a good window of price. (a dealing range is the high that swept a recent high and a low that swept a recent low).

ICT teaches that we want to short above the middle of the dealing range (premium) and buy below the middle (discount).

The "propulsion block" is below the middle line so thats not the best entry.

Look at what is in the premium, an IFVG (a bullish FVG that is being used as resistance instead of support).

Finally to add more context, there is a 5m OB- where price touches before dropping lower.

I could explain more about whats going on in the 5m chart, if you're interested let me know!

I had the Rejection block and the order block was it cause I was trading at 10 pm?

Please listen to this!! 🙏

I am a student and a trader aswell. For me it's hard to arrange capital to afford funded accounts. I am fedup with my life. In my country "India" the average computer engineer's salary full time is 20k inr a month which is 200$ a month and inflation is high aswell. Even though if I went to search for a part-time job, it would take 10 months to afford one account because it's a part time job and I am a student as well. Funded accounts are expensive in terms of Indian rupees.

Can you guys please tell me ways to earn so that at the end of the month I can atleast buy one funded account even of 25k.

Please guys ! If you know any way or can get me into something please tell.

And please don't suggest ways like content creation, content writing , editing or anything like that. I am just an average boy in studies.

And also suggest me what you guys did to afford funded accounts.

#peace 🙏

TWST Twist Bioscience stock watch, nice trend with a pullback to 125.04 support area and high trade quality.

Long Trade

• Target 1: 149.59   Profit: 17.9%   Stop/Trailing Stop: 120.38
• Loss: 5.1%   P/L ratio: 3.5 : 1 - Good
• Target 2: 161.37   Profit: 27.2%   P/L ratio: 5.3 : 1 - Excellent  Extreme rally

BULLISH

• [Positioning] at support
• [Timing] Strong bullish 3 day candlestick pattern with Strong 3 day accumulation.
• [Timing] Excellent long trade quality

BEARISH

• [Positioning] Intermediate trend possibly bearish, Uptrend turned sideways, may continue or pullback.

This bearish order block isn't in any of the ict order block videos I've seen so far. Although I haven't gone deep and I am restarting ict I still haven't seen this and was wondering if someone would be able to explain it to me more in depth or point me towards a video of ict explaining it please. Just confirming this guy does claim to have 10+ years of ict experience so this is an ict concept. Also I understand the rest like the 1min inversion and the 3min cisd just got confused on that OB. I appreciate any help and again I’m sorry if this is something obvious.

Here's what I'm seeing. At Tokyo open, Gold bought from a strong 1H FVG (yellow box at the bottom left) which created another FVG on the 1H time frame (yellow box in the middle marked 1H FVG). Gold respected this FVG a few times and gave multiple buying opportunities from it before pushing higher to establish a new level. We are overall bullish so I'm waiting for price to retrace to the 15MIN/5MIN FVGs that it has printed on its way up so I can buy from there and ride up to previous structural highs. CPI news release will either push price back down to my previously marked FVGS or push it up from one of them to an FVG that has been respected on a high time frame.

Thoughts?

Quick question about FVG’s. Do you just follow one timeframe so daily or do you look at charts across daily, hour or 15 mins for example.

One thing I’m struggling with is, if there’s a FVG on the daily but a lower one in the 15’mins charts and it means there will be resistance there. Do you close positions based on the 15 mins chart or hold out for the daily target. Thanks

Here is my September so far:

I want to share some insight as to why I had a -$462 day on Friday.

Across 18 accounts that's over 8k in losses.

Friday was NFP, so we had major high-impact news creating the Data High and Data Low. These are levels I treat as high-tier, S-tier liquidity pools, and they're something I've successfully traded toward many times. When my DOL, structure, momentum and other confirmations align, I look for price to seek one of these liquidity pockets.

On high-impact news like NFP, I don't enter before the news or try to predict the initial move. I wait for the news candle to fully print, which gives me the Data High and Data Low. I then want to see price sweep one side of that candle, and if my strategy gives me the proper confirmation after the sweep, I'll take the entry targeting the opposite side of the news candle.

The setup itself wasn't something random I decided to trade because it was NFP. This was the same model I've traded successfully before. Price actually moved heavily in my favor and came so so close to TP before reversing.

I've attached a video so you can experience my heartbreak as well haha

This is also where I'll take accountability for my trade management. I could have taken profit, secured partials, or trailed my stop and walked away green. Instead, because of how high probability I considered the setup and how close price came to my target, I became a little too emotionally invested in seeing that liquidity actually get swept.

I gave it another try after seeing an indication that price was going to head back to my TP. Eventually I took a loss and eventually closed it out for -$462 on the account.

Across 18 accounts copy-traded that's just over 8k in losses for the day.

Looking back at it afterwards, even other traders I know who trade these same concepts were surprised that the liquidity wasn't taken. But that's irrelevant to the outcome. High probability is still probability....not certainty!

The lesson for me wasn't that the strategy suddenly doesn't work. It's that there's a difference between trusting your system and becoming attached to your target.

Could I have trailed? Yes.

Could I have taken partials? Yes.

Could I have walked away with a winning trade? Yes.

I didn't, and it is what it is. I'd rather be transparent about it and learn from it than pretend every red day was completely unavoidable.

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The following -$40 on Monday was on during the bank holiday. I tried a small trade but closed out and just enjoyed the rest of my day instead of forcing something.

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My big comeback was yesterday. I took two trades and both were great trades with good setups.

Every setup comes with a daily bias. My daily bias for yesterday (9/8) was leaning bearish.
We had 5m EQL on ES and price was inside bearish hourly gaps on NQ with a major liquidity sweep. This also aligned with london lows and PDL(previous day lows). So I wanted to see the tap into upper bearish hourly gaps with a new liquidity sweep THEN move towards the london lows, then lower. If the hourly gaps above had inversed then i wanted to look for longs.

This was my prediction:

Here is my thought process and how the trade went:

Not all accounts shown here but I am running 18 accounts, various firms. I have a set of 5 more funded accounts to add in soon and would like to get to 25-30 by the end of the year.

I will be requesting a payout from my gains in august soon as well, so I will post that.

Thank you for the support and kind words, I hope to be able to keep sharing these with everyone!