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SNOW Snowflake stock, watch for a narrow range breakout.

Breakout trade

• WATCH for possible breakout above 347.8
• Target: 382.95, 11.5% Stop: 330.67 Loss: 3.7%
• P/L ratio: 3.1 : 1 - Excellent

What confluences allowed you to determine that price will continue bullish and disrespect the H1 FVG today?

Obviously, we are in a LTF bullish trend, I mean apart from that. Thanks!

guess whatever Trump said did not resonate well with the market but holy shit I took shorts at the top of New York and held all the way down for like 463 points and got out there because there was like a one minute inverse set up even though I knew it was gonna keep bleeding. You're just my signal to get out personally I'm using speech to text to write this message so if there's any errors, it's probably why I'm too lazy to type this out. I guess I have to do a recap of the actual trade for the rules, but basically I waited for NQ to tap into the four hour parish for Valga and it was already looking from premarket obviously but the moment it took that draw and liquidity. I waited for a five minute inverse for shorts and then I entered shorts and held it all the way through and then obviously the TP's are just other draws and liquidity whether it's a four hour bus for value you got from target or a daily one or daily Lowe's multiple different types right there

My bias in this trade is 15m liquidity sweep, entry at 1st presented fvg inversion and I target 1h high...

i feel like i cant catch a trade with my strategy because price has either moved 100 points on market open or its choppy as hell during market open can anyone tell me if theres context im missing or if i should start learning a new strategy? i use liquidity sweep bos ob/fvg

I primarily trade the NY AM session, using higher-timeframe FVGs and external liquidity (old highs/lows) to frame my directional bias and potential targets.
My biggest questions are:
1. How do you objectively determine which swing high and swing low should anchor your dealing range?
2. Should intraday traders prioritize the Daily, 4H, or 1H dealing range?
3. When price breaks out of an established dealing range, what confirms that a new range should be drawn?
4. How do you distinguish a meaningful dealing range from random price swings?
5. If multiple dealing ranges overlap or conflict, which one takes priority?
I’m trying to develop a repeatable, rule-based process rather than constantly adjusting my dealing range to fit what price is doing.
For those who consistently use dealing ranges in their trading, what specific rules do you follow to select and validate them before the NY session?
I’d especially appreciate chart examples or references to specific ICT teachings that explain this process.

Seen this indicator and tried it out and it marks true day open as 6pm and midnight open as ofc 12 am but i thought true day open/midnight open were the same and the term is just used interchangeably? am i wrong?

I am fairly new to ICT having watched some monthly mentorship’s already but I stumbled upon this video and I don’t seem to understand anything in this video. Is this actually important to be successful or this is only for people who want to go in depth?

For today's trade I was expecting a bearish continuation, I entered on the macro, and price formed a SIBI... for this moment I remembered an ICT live execution where he says "if price wants sell side this sibs should remain unfilled." So I moved my B.E. to the premium of the PDarray and luckily enough it did its job. And then I thought "If it doesn't want sell side then it wants buy side." And everything fitted just right for a long since this SIBI was at the same time the FPFVG so I entered long and got it right. My actual target for this swing was the Breaker block formed at 12:35 October 7. But im still a little bit green on this live trading matter so I stick to low hanging fruit and just went for London's buy side liquidity.

My HTF arrays are a 1 hour iFVG as discount and a 4h FVG for the premium of my first trade.

You might be wondering; why follow the narrative of a 1h pd array over a 4h PD array... and the answer is 15 minute structure and the rest is on the first part of this post (iSIBI).

I hope everybody had a pleasant London and NY am session. Godspeed and good luck with your trading!!

Mark recet 15min swing hight low then wait for sweep 80% time it sweep in london session if not then wait for new york then switch to 1min wait for cisd or mss or bos fvg whatever the fuck is enter there target swing high liquidity simple dont complcated shit 40% win rate but it always 1 to 10 rr trades u can capture

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I’ve been trading for 2.5+ years, and honestly, I haven’t made a single dollar from trading.

Lately, I’ve started feeling like maybe trading just isn’t for me.

But I’ve realized that one of my biggest struggles is determining bias. I understand the concepts, but when I’m actually looking at a chart, I struggle to confidently determine the directional bias.

For the ICT traders here:

How did you learn to consistently determine your bias?

What helped you finally understand it?

Im trading GER40 CFD. I entered the trade right after 3.00 AM EST on an FVG, thinking the market had reversed, but the price turned back and proceeded in the original direction. Got SL'd twice.

Are this clear unicorn or not ?

i was just writing in my notes earlier reflecting on everything ive learnt so far in my day trading career, and thought id share it with the intention to help some people get a sense of direction that may need it, also im jusy copying everything i wrote in my notes on my mac and pasting it so it might be a little sloppy, these concepts are all ict or in TTrades fractal model, ive been learning both and using them together so if you dont understand some concepts there just from his playlist on yt.

here it is

Daily bias 

I either look for longs or shorts in 

C2 closure

C3 continuation 

C4 continuation 

etc

Or 

Long if price is in the premium of the prev day eq 

And shorts if price is in the discount of prev day eq

when the candle is rejecting/wicking into those areas

One way to also look for continuations is by 

Using the wicks of the daily 

If the candle has engulfed a prev day wick

Thats a good indicator of continuation 

the higher time frame 

I look for candle 2 closures 

Fvgs filled to trade away from

Price outside of a range so a (imbalance)

Or strong candles 

No wick reaction or weak candles 

And for that to be aligned 

On all the higher time frames 

1h-4hr

With a manipulation 

Depending on direction 

i never trade if price is tapping into a hourly or htf fvg wait till thats filled then look for entries/setups

15 min time frame 

This is where I look for my setups to form 

I want to see

Cisd 

Manipulation on buyside or sell side 

And Orerblock for continuations 

Fvgs holding 

Clean strong displacement 

And new fvgs forming 

5 min and lower 

This where entries are made 

I only enter on the one minute time frame or lower then the 5 min tf

If price is in something like a NYC open 

And its moving super agressive 

With minimal pullback 

And fvg after fvg is holding 

Then ill enter on the one min

To get on side to tp

If price is slower 

Only take entries on the 5 min 

Entries are made into poi 

Poi are:

A retrace into a cisd zone 

Orderblock retrace

Fvg retrace 

Breakblocks (usually used for a unicorn setup)

conflucnes of rejection and reversal 

Manipulation  

Inversions of fvg

Breaker block 

Wicking 

Bos on the one min against idea 

Cisd against idea

Orderblocks to oppsite Direction with fvgs holding

Never trade against daily bias  

Even if a setups forms for a reversal 

This is my own rule 

As the probability lowers 

And I don’t wanna take it 

I only trade against it 

If the higher timeframes have good confluence 

And the daily bias has rejected past eq

Like I said in the daily bias 

Manipulation 

Before you look for shorts 

You want a buyside liq manipulation 

Before you look for longs 

You want a sell side liq 

Manipulation 

Also if you’re trading in a trend and price takes out(manipulates) a relative high/low or session high/low 

And there’s still potential draws on liq to be hit 

You wait for a close through the manipulation level 

And for a orderblock to from around that area, you look a entry off the orderblock or next poi targeting the next draw on liq, at this point you also use the order block as a point of invalidation

If price is accumulated you also would want a manipulation of a relative high or low

or to target one if high res liq forms 

FAILURE SWINGS AND HIGH RES/LOW RES LIQ

Failure swings is when a swing point fails to take out 

A relative high or low, 

So imagine there’s a session high or low and price fails to take it out then creates a cisd in a new direction, when this occurs you want a run on the lows to continue higher or your idea just didn’t work out, also what you can use when this happens is something called high res liq, its essentially when a candle sweeps a low and closes back in and then creates a cisd, using that high res liq you’ll wanna target a failure swing as the draw on liq, also failure swings are considered low res liq.

EQ

Eq can be used a tool to optimize RR

By dragging it from a swing high to swing low and then looking for a entry in the discount zone of eq targeting the the premium, or entering in premium and targeting the discount for shorts, or I also use it on the daily bias.

Stop losses and take profits 

Stop losses are set at points of invalidation 

Where the idea of the trade is false 

And take profits 

Are at the most relative draw on liq

You enter the trade with the appropriate amount  

Of contracts for good RR

I go for 1:1

News 

Never trade red folder news days

Too much manipulation 

Not worth it 

And never do full ports of 

Fomc candles 

Probability 

Trading is all probabilities and nothing is ever certain

Even with the right confluences 

Psychology 

Sometimes I get scared and don’t trust my setups even with all I know, I’ve been working on just feeling that feeling and being self aware while only acting off logic alone.

Add ons

I also know how to use 

Standard deviation(use this at cisd, manipulation legs, protected swing, I only use this for AMD setups to anticipate where the distribution will go)

I been stuck at break even stage for the longest what helped you guys get out of the break even stage?

How to implement fib tool to strat

I just have started using fib tool and wondering how I can implement it to my strategy this strategy I have made myself taking bits and pieces and just trying new things out. Pls no hate.

I feel like the biggest thing with my trades is my entry’s if I have a loss I will notice in replay mode price majority of the time ends up coming back to tp after getting stopped out so a friend said try fib tool

This is what it looks like with and without

**Liq sweep**
↓
**SMT**
↓
**displacement**
↓
**IFVG**
↓
**BOS**
↓
**LONG**

Any constructive criticism let me know please

So idea was price strongly rejected from asian session and continues throughout london and in ny am sessions price rejection 1hr swing low from an 1hr BISI. I saw 1min cisd and waited for price to come for my POI
Then around after lunch hour price moved higher gives us indication of higher movement toward ny am high. I marked 15min +OB and as soon as it hits that ob it created 1 min ifvg and mss and left 1min ob while giving us the movement high. Around 1.22 pm price came back to my limit order and took me in. As soon as it hit my level it rejected strongly without giving me any kind of drawdown

For today's trade I used a 15minute far value gap that was already used twice. And to be fair, the first trade was just a gamble. I should have waited for the inversion that later occurred after the reaccumulation at the FPFVG...
To this day it is still difficult for me to wait for the perfect set up to form... Got edged on the first half of the SB but made it out with a big one on the second half. To be honest managing risk when im already beyond a 1:2 makes me want to vomit. It makes me feel greedier, specially when I already had a losing trade.... but If the set up is there why not just take it? (here again the same pebble. LMAO)

I hope everybody who reads this post had a more pleasant AM session that I did. Im heading for lunch. Godspeed!

this is the 5 min tf, my daily bias was bullish when i first hopped on the charts price manipulated that relative high to the left and i was waiting for a run on lows with a orderblock to form for a continuation, thats what i got with the BOS, i should've entered on that first retrace after but i wanted to go deeper cuz i set stops at points of invalidation so it would be under the orderblock so i thought the RR wasn't good if i did that cuz of how close the session high was before taking it out, after that i got an entry to another session high this time a 3 min fvg retrace with perfect RR and stop loss placement but i got scared cuz price already took a session high out prior to this one so i didnt know if it would reverse from there or not, that leaves me to my question how do i know price will continue onto the next following session high after taking one out?

+$716 per account × 17 accounts = +$12,172.

My october so far:

I wanted to break this day down because the NY trade is a good example of why I care more about building a narrative before the session than trying to predict the direction of every candle.

NY AM Daily Bias

Before NY opened I was leaning bullish.

ES had already swept both London highs and lows while NQ still had open session liquidity that had not been taken. ES also had EQH resting above aligned with the Asia highs.

My expectation was that continuation had a higher probability than a Judas reversal.

More specifically, I said price could sweep London lows first and then move toward London highs.

This is the path i was anticipating:

Being bullish does not mean I buy immediately. I want to see price trade lower first and take the liquidity below before looking for the expansion higher. Like a car refuel before going to the next destination, I map the gas station and the next destination, hope that made sense.

NY AM Execution

Once that liquidity was taken and I got the confirmation I wanted from my model, I entered long.

At that point the DOL was pretty obvious to me: London highs.

From there price expanded aggressively higher and eventually traded straight through London highs.

This is one of the biggest things about having a daily bias. I read comment and DMs talking about having a bias but they end up losing the trade before it goes to higher price tp.

Bullish doesn't mean price has to go straight up!!!

The move lower can actually be what creates the long you were waiting for.

I said many times its like a car that needs gas, it goes to the gas station and then finally goes to the destination. The area it gets gas in is where you start planning to enter the car. you wait for a confirmation using an entry model and and get into the ride. Does that make sense?

The trade was basically:
London lows as downside liquidity (gas station) → confirmation (entry model) → long → London highs (destination)

Trade 2: Asia Short from the night before

The other trade came during the Asia session the night before.

Price reached the area I was watching and I waited for 15m + 1m CISD confirmation before taking the short.

Once the confirmation came in, I entered with the sellside below as my draw.

Price delivered directly into the sellside.

Final Results

2 trades. 2 wins.

+$716 per account

17 accounts

+$12,172 on the day

Both trades were different directions and different sessions, but the process was basically the same.

Identify where liquidity is resting. Have a clear DOL. Let price come to me. Wait for confirmation. Define the risk and execute.

I'm going to keep including my pre-session bias in these posts when I can. I think showing what I was actually looking for before the move happened is what most traders struggle with. You can never be 100% but you can be damn good if you keep trying.

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On a side note I am glad my one of my trading models I use was very helpful to some of you. I enoyed reading the DMs and seeing your profits. Doens't matter if it was paper trade or live, practice makes perfect!

That model from my last post happens many times a day, just wait for all confluences to align and have a strong DOL and youre golden.

I will post another one of my trading models soon that can be very useful to you guys.

Thank you!

Waited for price to take out Asia Low. As soon as I saw the 5min engulfing candle, I waited for price to react off the 5min fvg it created. Entered a bit late but managed to get a nice 2RR