2022 ICT Mentorship Model

Before you start looking for 2022 model entry, especially for intraday traders, make sure
you checked your MAIN areas of interest:

1. Previous Week High / Low

2. Previous Day High / Low
3. London BSL / SSL
4. Lunch High / Low
5. AM Session BSL / SSL
6. Old High / Low
7. Equal High / Low

Remember, looking for a likely move higher or lower based on the weekly candle. That
sets your initial bias for the week. (Weekly bias).

The market is drawing to 2 things; price is either running to take out highs and lows or
running to fill an imbalance. When it's not doing those, it’s consolidating.

When there is an indecisive candle in a discount/premium of the range and there is a

FVG above/below, price is then likely to rebalance the fair value gap before potentially
continuing lower/higher.

The majority of finding the draw on liquidity will be found in the daily timeframe
analysis.

Any time a significant price move lower/higher is expected, always anticipate some
measure of a stop hunt on short-term highs, whether SSL or BSL.

When price runs highs/lows on higher timeframes we wait for a market structure shift
(MSS) on lower timeframes. See how the price ran above buy-side liquidity and then
quickly reversed in the blue-shaded area and created an MSS. See how price makes a
low than takes out that low now creating a lower low, that is the MSS.

If you have bullish bias, you will want to look for SSL to be swept. If you have bearish
bias, make sure you looked for BSL was swept first.
When you have a big overnight move (2-5 am) before New York session. You don't want
to get caught in chop, expect consolidation. Seek and destroy conditions. Don't trade the
AM session.

Note, if price distorts, you will want to look for a run on short-term BSL / SSL.
Remember, missing a move in the market doesn't result in a losing trade unless you
use a flawed logic that leads to a losing trade. If today the setups we expected didn't
form, but it doesn't mean the market is against us. It's just a missed opportunity and
dwelling on it won't make any money or change the outcome. Instead, focus on
learning from the experience and developing a mindset that can handle setbacks.

Trading is about studying, observing, and recognizing repeating patterns in price

action. It's not about blindly following instructions to buy or sell. ICT teaching method
might not suit everyone, but it's based on logical analysis of charts. Avoid toxic
thinking and negative self-talk. Accept missed opportunities as part of the learning
process. Stay positive, study, practice, and be prepared for the next opportunity.

ICT 2022 Mentorship Model Steps:

1. Price trades through major Buyside or Sellside Liquidity (Asian High/Low, London
High/Low, Previous Day(s) High/Low, etc.).

2. Price reverses direction and creates a Fair Value Gap (FVG) with Displacement
(Displacement must exist. This signifies there is Institutional sponsorship to the
move).
3. Swing (high or low) must be exactly horizontal to one of the three candles in the
FVG. This swing is now a Market Structure Shift (MSS):

a. The Swing High/Low can occur either before the liquidity grab or afterwards.
Either way is valid.

4. Draw a 50% Fibonacci line (two options):

a. Start at swing that took liquidity to a swing on the other side of the FVG.

b. Start at a prominent swing after liquidity taken swing to a swing on the other
side of the FVG.

5. The gap in the FVG candles must be on the Equilibrium line (50%) or on the side of
the Liquidity (i.e., the better side).

6. Place Limit Order inside the FVG at the Equilibrium or on the better side of
Equilibrium.
 1. Liquidity grab. (Old highs/lows or other HTF PD Arrays
2. Displacement
3. Market Structure Shift (MSS)
4. FVG/OB above or below 50% fib of the Displacement Range
5. Return to FVG or OB.
6. Solid Risk Reward Ratio.

Displacement range refers to the range between the displacement high (low) and
displacement low (high) in the market. It occurs when the price breaks below (above) an
old high (low) and takes out a short-term low (high) prior to that run above (below).

Displacement low is the short-term low being broken, and the displacement high is the
old high. The range between these two points is called the displacement range.

Side note, within the discount range, we are looking for lows or imbalances (FVG) for
targets, there is a fair value gap which is categorized as a buy-side imbalance and
Sellside inefficiency (BISI FVG). When the price trades below the old low or into the
FVG within the discount that is where we would sell. We want to use the closest target
(low-hanging fruit).
You may want to ask me what FVG to choose if we have more than 1. I will answer your
best choice will be FVG in Discount/Premium and ideally if pairs with OTE retracement.
No FVG? Use IFVG that pairs with OTE retracement.
Algorithm Macro

After 1:30pm, mark the first swing low or swing high of any importance. Algos turned on
at that time. I usually call it Judas Swing. Look for a swing high/low and look for a stop
hunt. Same thing you do in the morning at market open!

- When the swing low gets violated, when you already have a bullish bias that stop hunt
is all that's necessary to start a buy program.

- Buy program is when Algos go into the process of spooling which means it just keeps
offering higher prices. (vice versa)

VOLUME DOES NOT MATTER. THIS IS BEING MANIPULATED.

What if you don't get a swing low that trades below it? Look for a move higher that's
sudden (DISPLACEMENT HIGHER). Then look for a FVG. If it trades back down to the
FVG then trade it.
[Credit to Infinity Trading – Twitter: @infinitytradeIO]
 [Credit to Infinity Trading – Twitter: @infinitytradeIO]

As always, it's important to know when enough is enough. If you've made money in your
live/PA account, you don't want to rush back in to take another trade. Chances are, you
enjoy the dopamine feeling from a profitable trade, and if you try to repeat it, there's a
lower chance of you following 100% of your rules.

People on social media “You got to push your edge.” ICT says, “No you don't want to
push your edge, because if you keep pushing your edge, you're going to dull it, you
sharpen it by knowing when to get in and when to get out.”