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The ICT power of three is the story every candle tells in three acts: accumulation, manipulation, and distribution, or AMD for short. Also, look at any daily candle on a …

SMT divergence is one of the simplest ideas in the ICT toolkit, and one of the most misunderstood. Also, smart Money Technique divergence appears when two correlated markets disagree at …

The Judas swing is the fake move that opens a trading session. Also, price pushes hard in one direction during the first hour of London or New York, runs the …

The ICT silver bullet is a time-boxed entry model, not a magic trigger. Also, the name comes from Inner Circle Trader (Michael Huddleston), and the rule set is strict: you …

Most traders hunt for better signals. Also, traders who follow Inner Circle Trader concepts hunt for a better clock. ICT kill zones are the four time windows where institutional order …

A liquidity sweep is a quick push through an obvious price level that grabs the resting orders parked there, then stalls or reverses. Also, the level is usually a prior …

Order block trading is a method, not an indicator. Also, it rests on one idea: large orders do not fill in a single candle. Banks and funds build positions in …

A fair value gap is a three-candle imbalance where price moves so fast that one side of the market never gets filled. Also, the middle candle displaces hard in one …

ICT indicators translate the Inner Circle Trader method into lines, boxes, and labels on your MT4 or MT5 chart. Also, the method itself, taught by Michael Huddleston, reads institutional order …