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ICT Mentorship Core Content - Month 1 - How Market Makers Condition The Market

Key Terms

Content

  • Market Efficiency Paradigm

    • Smart Money (SM) will pull Speculative Uniformed Money into the market as liquidity.

    • Interbank feed drives price against funds.

    • Brokers increase spreads against traders.

    • Long term trading, can be traded after we learn on Daily Range, we can learn faster on the Daily Range, repetitive price delivery cycles occur more often.

    • Context Around Trading Idea using the Daily Range

      • Consolidation = Asian Range (20:00 - 00:00 EST)

      • Expansion = Judas Swing (After 00:00 EST)

        • The Expansion is in the form of a Judas Swing and is making the high or low in London.

        • Setting up a Reversal to run stops. (London Swing)

      • Then another Expansion move approaching the NY Session Open.

      • There will be another Consolidation approaching the (08:00 to 08:30 EST) News Embargo Lift. (NY Consolidation)

      • Once the News Embargo Lift has occurred. (08:00 - 08:30)

        • There will be an injection of Liquidity or a Reversal.

      • Then another Expansion

      • Then London Close, which can be a Reversal Condition.

      • Then Consolidation in preparation of the NY PM Session.

      • We apply repeating characteristics to time of day.

  • IPDA - Daily Range Structure

    • Price Equilibrium

      • Asian Range (20:00 - 00:00)

    • Manipulation

      • After (00:00) Some news driver/event at time of manipulation or just before, Judas Swing is a false move.

    • Expansion

      • Range Expansion 02:00 - 05:00 EST London Open, after High/Low is formed price will start expanding through 05:00 EST.

      • Classic London Open Scenario

        • Runs stops, Reversal Expansion.

    • Consolidation

      • Between 05:00 - 08:00, NY Consolidation.

    • Retracement

      • 08:00-08:30 EST

    • Reversal or Expansion

      • 08:30 - 11:00 EST NY AM Session

    • Reversal or Expansion

      • 10:00 - 12:00 London Close

    • Consolidation

      • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

    • Reversal or Expansion or Continued Consolidation

      • 13:00 - 16:00

    • Consolidation

      • 16:00 to end of true day, at 19:00.

    • Nothing will happen until consolidation.

      • Market makers are allowing orders above and below the consolidation range.

    • Look for expansion, movement for indication of Market Makers plans.

      • Algorithm is time sensitive.

      • Consolidation to Expansion.

      • Expansion to Retracement to Orderblock to Expansion

        • Or Reversal

          • Once in Reversal to another Expansion to Consolidation

      • Algo is time and day sensitive.

        • Will happen fast depending on time.

    • Apply time to structure

      • AR = Consolidation

      • London Open = Expansion to Reverse in London for High/Low of Day then Expand

      • NY AM = Small Consolidation to Retracement (08:00-08:30) to Expansion

      • Reversal Back to Consolidation

      • Model repeats over and over again.

  • IPDA Weekly Structure

    • The same pattern applies to weekly structure as well.

      • Sunday Open = Consolidation

      • Monday = Expansion to Reversal at high/low of week or

      • Tuesday = Expansion to Reversal at high/low of week or

      • Wednesday = Consolidation to Reverse or Retracement

      • Thursday = Expansion

      • Friday = Consolidation

  • Reference points in Institutional Order Flow

    • Orderblocks

    • FVG & Liquidity Voids

    • Liquidity Pools & Stop Runs

    • Equilibrium

Notes

  • Find 10 occurrences in past price action and log them in your trade journal.

  • Extra credit if found on multiple time frames.