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ICT Mentorship Core Content - Month 1 - Impulse Price Swings & Market Protraction

Key Terms

  • Market Protraction (MP)

  • Impulse Price Swing (IPS)

Content

  • Impulse Price Swing (IPS)

  • Fast moves large to swing points high/low

  • When looking at PA think about IPS

  • Time of Day related to IPS

    • Add Vertical Lines for 00:00 GMT.

    • Now we can see time sensitive IPS

      • What is Market Protraction (MP), an IPS that is highly sensitive to Time of Day.

      • There are 3 primary MP every 24 hours.

      • 20:00 EST Asia (00:00 GMT)

      • 00:00 EST Midnight London, IPS, can fake out price chasers.

      • 07:00 EST NY AM, If market has moved lower/higher in London, we are looking for a retracement in the opposite direction, it is designed and intended to induce traders into the wrong side of PA.

        • 11:00 EST London Close, watch for Judas Swing (move in opposite direction of bias)
  • The intent is to manipulate traders and seek their positions as liquidity.

  • Market Protraction will move in the opposite direction of PA.

  • The difference in determining IPS vs MP is that MP will have a small IPS after these times.

    • 00:00 est

    • 07:00 est

    • 20:00 est

    • Small IPS counter to the major direction of larger price swing, if we are bullish the MP will be a small bearish IPS, and if bearish the MP will be a small bullish IPS.

    • The MP will happen shortly after the above times.

Notes

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

  • Extra credit if found on multiple time frames.