Trading Blog — Ideas, setups & postmortems

Side-by-side comparison of two of ICT's highest-conviction setups on NQ — win rate, R:R, frequency, and which one belongs in your funded challenge playbook.

The exact five-minute pre-market routine that gets you ready for the NY open: five reference levels, one bias call, and one killzone plan. Copy this and use it tomorrow.

The exact math on trailing drawdown, position sizing, and why 0.5% risk per trade — not 1% or 2% — is the setting that maximizes pass rate on a 50K prop firm evaluation.

A composite trader profile: what changed between blowing three funded accounts and passing on the fourth. Journal patterns, entry filters, and the one rule that reset the equity curve.

The three killzone setups that print on NQ almost every week — Judas swing reversal, AM Silver Bullet continuation, and PM raid-and-reverse. Rules, timing, and how to spot them live.

A step-by-step ICT plan for passing a $50K prop firm evaluation — Silver Bullet and Unicorn setups, drawdown-safe sizing, and how to rehearse it bar-by-bar first.

The rules, position sizing, and trade selection that let ICT traders pass 50K funded evaluations without blowing the drawdown.

The Silver Bullet is a one-hour ICT window that produces high-probability NQ trades. Here's the exact rules, entry model, and how to rehearse it in replay.

A repeatable, browser-only workflow for backtesting Nasdaq (NQ) futures using ICT concepts, killzones, and a free replay simulator — no NinjaTrader install required.