Precision is what I'm chasing.
Whether you love him or criticize him, one thing is hard to ignore: ICT is incredibly detailed in how he reads the market. That level of precision is what I strive to develop every single day.
90% of the time I fell short came down to two things:
- Skill issue
- Direction issue
Master your craft, pick the right arena & results follow
Everything else is noise.
ICT Tip💡:
When a New Day Opening Gap stacks on top of a New Week Opening Gap in the same price area, that’s a gap cluster.
Gap clusters are some of the strongest draws on liquidity.
If a DRT level sits inside a gap cluster, that’s an extremely strong magnet for price.
Before you place a trade, ask yourself:
Has liquidity just been raided?
Has price moved away from an imbalance?
Where are the nearest equal highs or lows?
This will help you find the draw on liquidity.
As a Trader, you will eventually mature into the mindset that all of your actions, planning, lifestyle changes are moving you towards a life without Trading.
Eventually, you will get the epiphany that your task is to get to a net worth that removes the need to trade. Your money works for you, on autopilot.
No real estate, no businesses, no employees, no sales, no concern for competition, no energy wasting pursuits for significance.
Fixed income on a well-earned knot... most never get this.
Be the exception, work towards it.
A sniper doesn't get trigger happy.
One shot. One target.
All the patience in the world until the moment is exactly right.
Then they pull the trigger without hesitation.
That's what trading is.
Stop spraying bullets and wondering why nothing is hitting.
One of the benefits of trading in the first 2.5 days of NFP week... you get to go into the circus already paid and witness everyone else do it wrong on the latter half.
Get your pound of meat and be content.
Be safe.
ICT Tip💡:
One of the most powerful ICT entry techniques is called the Unicorn Model.
It forms when a FVG inside the leg that breaks structure overlaps with a breaker.
When price trades back into this area, it holds like a brick wall.
Success lives & dies by the speed of your feedback loop
Your feedback loop is built on risk appetite & curiosity
Risk appetite means you fail fast and iterate
Curiosity means you spot the patterns others miss
Bet it all on yourself. Stay obsessed.
I spend 15 minutes before every session running through a routine.
By the end of it, I either have a trade or I close the laptop.
Most sessions, I close the laptop.
And that's the skill that changed everything.
Something coming this Sunday
The DRT Model:
1. Find previous dealing range.
2. Wait for a raid of previous DRH/L
3. Wait for 25DRT csd.
4. Wait for Macro
5. Enter on 25DRT array
6. Enter on 50DRT array
7. Target opposing liquidity pool.
When you first get together with a woman, almost any woman, she will dig into your background for any signs of prior weakness:
• An ex you loved but who dumped you
• A personal failure you never recovered from
• How you’d been single and lonely until you met her
• That you’re desperate for a serious relationship
• That you feel like nobody understands you
• Any need you have to cry to her like she’s Mama
She will test, poke, prod, and probe, acting thoughtful and sympathetic.
But all the while she will be looking to see if you are strong enough to be her man, or if you are weak.
Whatever you tell her, whatever rough patches you may have gone through, the final message should always be, “… and I came out solid as a rock because of it.”
Just like (almost) no man is looking for a hard, tough, rock-solid woman to be his shield, no woman is looking for a soft, weak, needy man for her to comfort and reassure.
If that is what you, as a man, are looking for (i.e., someone to comfort you and reassure you), a romantic relationship with a woman is the wrong place to seek it.
You need to call your Mom or get a female friend who can listen to you for that.
Or, MUCH BETTER, take up an art and dump all your tragic feelings into it: painting, writing, singing, whatever. (Easy way to spin undesirable emotions into DESIRABLE expression!)
Just whatever you do:
Do not make some girl who is excited about you because she finally found herself a cool, awesome guy (i.e., you) reconsider that because, as it turns out, “Oh. He is actually needy and weak. Gross..”
Be cool.
Be strong.
Either play off whatever your battle scars, or present them in a way that makes you look stronger and MORE reliable because of them… not less!
"If a woman shit tests me, I'm done with her."
This means you're taking women way too seriously. Often, the best response to a female shit test is to just laugh