90% of traders see candles
Only a few understand the story behind them. 👀📉
Every candle is a battle between buyers, sellers, liquidity, fear, and manipulation.
If you can read OHLC properly, price starts speaking to you differently.
• Open → where the trap begins
• High → where greed gets tested
• Low → where panic shows up
• Close → where the market reveals intent
Most people memorize patterns.
Real traders study behavior. 🧠
Master one candle first…
then the entire chart starts making sense.
What was the hardest thing for you to understand about candlesticks when you started trading?👇
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T — Think in probabilities.
R — Respect risk.
A — Act with patience.
D — Discipline over emotions.
E — Execute the plan.
R — Repeat consistently.
That’s what makes a TRADER.
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Some of you will find yourself in the coming year and develop consistency and mastery of oneself.
Your resolution is to unfollow everyone else and lead yourself solo into long term consistently profitable trading; this includes unfollowing me too.
9pm ET Thursday January 01, 2026 we meet for a brief roundtable lecture.
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Happy New Year Folks.
ICT has hundreds of videos and hundreds of concepts — This is my opinion about how to face his work.
Obviously, you can’t study and memorize every single video or every note he makes. That’s theory. From there, you have to design a system that aligns with the theory, so you can then focus on the rules of that system — whether it’s simple or complex. There’s no need to remember every single thing he says; that would just lead to paralysis by overanalysis.
You need to understand the concept, the theory, and then build a system that leverages it. When you define one function, then another, and keep building your code, at some point you “forget” how each function is written — but you know why it exists and what purpose it serves. As you keep coding, you start seeing each function as a black box: you know what input goes in, and what output comes out. You don’t care about the internal details at that point because you trust it was defined logically in the first place.
ICT is the same. You have to assemble your own system — a system that, in my opinion (unpopular one), the market demands to be quite complex, counterintuitive, and deeply integrated with your own personality and “opinions” formed over months or even years.
Just like an engineer doesn’t need to remember every single formula or theorem from aerodynamics, thermodynamics, or structural analysis to know that the tools he uses — which are based on those theories — actually work. He knows that if he revisits how those tools were built, he’ll remember the theory behind them.
That’s how your interaction with your own system should be. When you define it, you’re working with the theory. But when you apply it, all that matters is focusing on the guidelines — the outputs — your system provides.
That’s how I see it.
I trade ICT
I don’t care if the ‘market makers’ are controlling price, or if it’s just ‘re-packaged support and resistance’
I don’t care about the theory behind it at all
All I know is it’s what I started trading it years ago, and I’ve been able to generate $400k+ in prop firm payouts in less than 2 years because of it
So I don’t really care if the theory behind ICT concepts it’s true - it makes me money and that’s all that matters
Guys will make fun of ICT every week on here but they’re still broke
Fix your priorities my friend
Listen, uncertainty creates fear.
Markets revolve around uncertainty. Nobody truly knows what's going to happen in the next year, month, day, or even few hours.
We can't control how or when markets move.
If you're sitting at your desk for hours on end, the market doesn't care.
Staring at and micro-managing your position WILL NOT make it move to your target any faster.
Once you stop trying to control the outcome, you can start making good trading decisions.
Trading is hard, but I made it 10x harder with these mistakes.
Here are the 5 worst trading mistakes I made—and the lessons that turned my game around.
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I watched and reviewed @TTrades_edu fractal model course recently. As I was watching my first thought was that I was kind of mind blown as to how condensed, to the point, and readily available the information is. I would have killed to have this explained to me so simply years ago.
If you're struggling with creating a trade framework or bias I strongly encourage you to check it out. It's a complete system/model in itself but I strongly encourage you to bring your own knowledge to the table and make it your own - then test with data to trust in the results.
Before anyone asks - No, I do not have any affiliate or compensation. This is a genuine, honest review.
Learning this framework and WHY it works will help what I think people struggle with the most. You can keep this framing simple or make it very elaborate. It's good either way.