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ICT trading, explained simply
Short, practical guides to every Inner Circle Trader concept — Fair Value Gaps, Liquidity Sweeps, Killzones, Order Blocks, Market Structure Shifts and more. Each guide is paired with a free, browser-based simulator so you can rehearse the setup on 10+ years of real historical NQ price. Coming from forex? See how NQ Replay compares to FX Replay.
Start here · Pillar guide
What is ICT Trading?
The complete framework on one page — liquidity, Fair Value Gaps, order blocks, Killzones and the daily workflow. Read this first, then dive into the concepts below.
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The pillar overviews — read these first.
What is ICT Trading?
The pillar overview — every ICT concept compressed onto one page.
ICT Trading Strategy
A complete step-by-step playbook: bias, levels, sweep–MSS–FVG, exits.
Inner Circle Trader
Who Michael J. Huddleston is and the concepts he popularised.
Smart Money Concepts
The umbrella term for ICT-style price action — BoS, MSS, premium / discount.
ICT Trading
The full Inner Circle Trader framework, explained simply.
Market structure
How price builds, breaks and reverses.
Break of Structure (BoS)
The continuation signal — a close through the prior swing in trend.
Market Structure Shift (MSS)
The reversal confirmation that follows a clean liquidity sweep.
Order Block
The last opposing candle before a strong impulse — a reversal zone.
Power of Three (PO3)
Accumulation, manipulation, distribution — how every session unfolds.
Liquidity & imbalance
Where stops sit and how price rebalances.
Fair Value Gap (FVG)
A three-candle inefficiency the market often returns to fill.
Inverse Fair Value Gap
What an FVG becomes once it's closed through — a flipped reversal level.
Liquidity Sweep
Why price runs old highs and lows before reversing.
Turtle Soup
The classic equal-highs / lows liquidity sweep reversal setup.
SMT Divergence
Correlated-asset disagreement (NQ vs ES) as a reversal filter.
Time & entries
When to trade and where to pull the trigger.
ICT Killzones
The four high-probability session windows of the day.
Silver Bullet
The one-hour Killzone sub-window where the first FVG is the trade.
Judas Swing
The false move at session open that traps traders before the real move.
Optimal Trade Entry (OTE)
The 0.62–0.79 Fibonacci zone for high-R reversal entries.
Unicorn Model
When an FVG overlaps with a breaker block — high-confluence entries.
ICT Unicorn Strategy
The full playbook: sweep → MSS → FVG + breaker overlap entry.
ICT 2022 Mentorship Model
The flagship NY AM playbook: sweep → MSS → FVG → −2 SD target.
Ready to rehearse on real price?
The concepts stick when you see them printing bar by bar. Open the simulator, pick any session from the last decade, and watch the setups form live.