The secrets to effective & consistent profitability:
1) Adhere to a simple model.
2) Know what you want to make and it feeds you, leave something on just in case you were wrong about how much more.
3) Don't ask others for opinions, analysis or tips.
4) Manage Risk impeccably - ALWAYS.
5) Don't chase new things after you found your model.
6) Allow others to hold opinions - even if they are diametrically opposed to yours.
7) Unless you run a signal service, keep your opinions to yourself.
8) Make your bread, eat and go live for the day and find ways to bless others with it.
Anything else is BS.
Please understand.
The @I_Am_The_ICT silver bullet does not require a daily bias - instead only a ten point range for an imbalance to fill or a liquidity sweep - at very specific times.
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375 USD over a single week.
To the majority of you, this is trivial or perhaps minuscule.
One single micro contract is all it takes to reap it.
187.5 handles in one swing
47 handles 4 times inside the week
94 hands on two setups
37.5 handles per day 5 times over the week.
Which of these is easier for you at your present skillset?
High Probability Models [All Of Them]
Require:
1) Knowledge Of Market Conditions [Profiles]
2) Time & Price Theory
3) Narrative [The "Why" Price Should Move Where]
4) Market Structure
5) Real Order Flow
6) Sound Money Management
7) Excellent Entry & Exit Criteria
Period.
The 2025 Model In Simple Terms:
Determine a short term session\Day bias.
If Bullish - Seek Discount Arrays to enter on or after a short term swing low has been raided.
If Bearish - Seek Premium Arrays to enter on or after a short term swing high has been raided.
Frame intraday Price Runs from one Algorithmic Gap to an opposing Short Term Swing for Liquidity or Gap.
Macro times are optimal timing criteria but Price Runs inside the bias that began on a Macro can still be utilized.
Make a profitable execution and step aside for the day.
2% Risk per setup... one loss per day permitted.
That is it Folks... nothing complicated or too jarring.
Veteran students of mine see the simplicity... new Readers are probably not so impressed.
Your Trading Model:
[In A Thread]
1) You put down on paper who you think you are, what your strengths are, and the small list of weaknesses, I'm sure it's really just one... and it's most likely modesty.
This will be referred to at a later time in your development.
Treat the hourly range like the daily range.
15min Stage
5min Setup
1min/30s Entry
Timeframes are linked through a sequence.
The bodies tell the story.
Every LTF bearish PD array will FAIL when HTF orderflow is bullish.
All the LTF -FVGs, -OBs, and -Breakers simply wont work...
Which is why its extremely important to zoom out and not get fixated on the LTFs
You must be aware of what the Monthly, Weekly, and Daily are doing.
🔸 MMXM Time & Price, part #1
Everything moves in a cycle. Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly. Remember that ICT taught us that both time and price are fractal.
You don’t need to catch every move. Instead, you should focus on identifying high probability trades.
To get a better understanding, you should focus on Power Of 3, AMD and SMR timing.
See second post for a SMR data collection on NQ 🔻
Introducing ICT his 90 minute cycles and how their respective Highs/Lows function as Draws On Liquidity (DOL) and Points Of Interests (POI's).
👇 This is a follow-up thread to the previous ones.
ICT's son, Cameron, 30 second trading model 💎
"It's there every day
every hour
every 15 f*****g minutes
forget the 90 seconds or 90 min bs
it's every 15 min its there
I literally could sit there all day long trade intra day volatility"
🏴☠️
ECONOMIC CALENDAR
It is #CPI week and when we look at the agenda for upcoming news events we can notice the following.
Monday/Tuesday, no news, likely to see consolidation on USD-crosses -> Exotic pair protocol.
Wednesday -> manipulation move creating the high or low of the week on USD-crosses.
Thursday/Friday -> expansion move after the manipulation that took place on Wednesday.
@I_Am_The_ICT My Mother passed away from cancer three years ago and I want to visit families and pay off their debt because an anonymous person payed off my Mom’s 200k debt. 🙏🏽
@I_Am_The_ICT Man, my tape reading skills have improved so much. Never really saw the importance of tape reading, but now I am convinced this is hands down mandatory so development.
So many people run their trades with a fixed target in mind
The phrase FTA (First Trouble Area) which I got from Tom Dante, has changed my perspective on being married to targets
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