Smart Money & ICT strategies
Smart Money and ICT strategies describe the market in terms of liquidity: where stop orders cluster, how price sweeps them and where large orders may have been filled. They are the most popular ideas in trading education today and the least tested, so they are presented here as a framework to test.
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- Smart Money & ICTPopular, untestedLiquidity sweep reversalWhen price dips under obvious equal lows and snaps straight back above them, trade the reversal.Day trading, Swing tradingIntermediate
- Smart Money & ICTPopular, untestedFair value gap entryAfter a strong candle leaves a gap between its neighbours' wicks, enter when price returns into that gap.Scalping, Day tradingIntermediate
- Smart Money & ICTPopular, untestedICT Silver BulletIn the 10 to 11 am New York hour, wait for a liquidity sweep and a fair value gap, then trade toward the next pool of liquidity.Day tradingAdvanced
- Smart Money & ICTPopular, untestedOrder block entryMark the last down candle before a strong move up that breaks structure, then buy the first return to it.Day trading, Swing tradingIntermediate
- Smart Money & ICTPopular, untestedPower of Three (AMD)A day often builds a range near its open, fakes one way (the Judas swing), then runs the other: buy back above the open after a false drop.Day tradingAdvanced
- Smart Money & ICTPopular, untestedWyckoff springIn a trading range after a decline, a brief drop below support that snaps back (the spring) and a quieter test are bought, targeting the top of the range.Swing tradingAdvanced