Andrew Riad

ICT Charter Member | Futures Trader | follow my IG riad.andrew

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Once you see this you can't unsee it.

Wicks are not random. They're information.

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Here's something most retail traders don't know:

Every wick on your chart is an imbalance on a lower timeframe.

And price ALWAYS comes back to rebalance. 🧵

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The market is fractal.

What you see on the 15-minute, you'll see on the 1-minute and on the 15-second.

The same patterns. Just different scales.

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This process works every session. Every day.

The hard part isn't the process. It's having the patience to not skip steps when price is moving fast.

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Step 5: Add in as it confirms.

I don't enter full size immediately.

Enter half. See if it breaks through. Trail stop. Add more.

Risk stays the same. Size increases.

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Step 6: Target the pre-identified draw.

Not a random number. The liquidity level you identified on the higher timeframe.

Partial at first target. Trail the rest.

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Step 4: Drop to the 1-minute.

Wait for a sweep of liquidity within that zone.

Then wait for a change in state of delivery.

THEN enter.

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Step 2: Mark your deals.

Current dealing range high and low. 50% marked. Internal highs and lows marked.

Know where price is likely going.

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Step 3: Drop to the 5-minute.

Find the nearest area where price would need to retrace to before continuing.

This is your entry zone. Not a single candle. A zone.

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Step 1: Higher timeframe narrative.

1-hour or 4-hour. Where are we? Premium or discount? What's the draw? What liquidity needs to be taken?

This takes 5 minutes. Do it before you touch the 1-minute chart.

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People always ask me: Andrew how do you actually get in?

Here's my exact process, step by step. 🧵

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Next time you see price push through a level —

Don't react to the push. Wait for the close.

The close tells you everything.

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One signal changed how I read price more than anything else:

The failure to close.

Most traders completely ignore it. 🧵

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It's one of the cleanest reads you can have on price direction.

And it works on every single timeframe.