ICT SMART MONEY CONCEPTS

IPDA DAILY MACRO CYCLE

SESSIONTIME (UTC-5)
London0200 – 0500
Pre-Market0400 – 0800
High Impact Data0730
NY AM Session0800 – 1100
NY Cash Open0830
London Close0945 – 1000
NY Clearing1100 – 1400
NY Settlement1400 – 1700
CME Globex Begins1700
Extended Trading Hours1600 – 0400
Asia2000 – 2300

PRICE DELIVERY (PD) ARRAY MATRIX

OTE FIBONACCI RETRACEMENT SETTINGS

1100% – PREMIUM/DISCOUNT
0.7979%
0.770% – OTE
0.6262%
0.550% – EQ
0SCALING OUT – TP1
-0.27TP2
-0.62TP3
-1SYMMETRICAL SWING – TP4

ICT SMART MONEY CONCEPTS TIME FRAME ANALYSIS

WEEKLYIdentify the next Draw on Liquidity DOL – BSL/SSL/EQH/EQL/FVG
DAILYKey Levels – PD Arrays/OTE & Daily Bias/HTF POI
H4PD Arrays/OTE/MS
H1Identify MMXM & FVG/PDH/PDL
M15Intraday Structure/London & NY Killzone Time & Price Entries
M5Execution/Intraday Liquidity Grab/MSB Trades

POWER OF 3 – $DXY

33N/A
3×39N/A
3x3x327Session Range
3x3x3x381Daily Range (27-54-81)
3x3x3x3x3243Weekly Range
3x3x3x3x3x3729Monthly Range
3x3x3x3x3x3x32187Yearly Range
ICT SMART MONEY CONCEPTS

ICT CONCEPTS RULES BASED TRADING MODEL

  1. Check Economic Calendar
  2. Identity Weekly & Daily Inefficiencies/DOL
  3. Is the current Order Flow Bullish or Bearish?
  4. Determine the HTF Dealing Range
  5. Look for PD Arrays on LTF chart
  6. Wait for a Run on Liquidity
  7. Define the LTF Dealing Range
  8. Anticipate a Change in the State of Delivery
  9. Wait for a Continuation Setup
  10. Target Inefficient Price Action

ICT SMART MONEY CONCEPTS ABBREVIATIONS

AMD – Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution
ATH – All Time High
ATL – All Time Low

BISI – Buyside Imbalance / Sell Side Inefficiency
BMS – Break of Market Structure
BPR – Balanced Price Range
BRK – Breaker (+BRK = Bullish Breaker / -BRK = Bearish Breaker )
BSL – Buy Side / Buy Stop Liquidity
BE – Break Even (Moving your stop to the place where you entered the trade)
BOS – Break of Structure

CE – Consequent Encroachment
CSD – Change in the State of Delivery
CBDR – Central Bank Dealers Range

DOL – Draw on Liquidity
DH – Daily High
DL – Daily Low

EQH – Equal High
EQL – Equal Low

FPOL – First Point of Liquidity
FVG – Fair Value Gap
FVFB – Fair Value For Buying
FVFS – Fair Value For Selling
FA – Fundamental Analysis

HL – Higher Low
HH – Higher High
HTF – High Time Frame
HOD – High of Day

IOF – Institutional Order Flow
IOFED – Institutional Order Flow Entry Drill
IPDA – Interbank Price Delivery Algorithm
IDM – Inducement
ITH/ITL – Intermediate High/Low
KZ – Killzone

LO – London Open
LOKZ – London Kill Zone
LP – Liquidity Pool
LQ – Liquidity
LV – Liquidity Void
LL – Lower Low
LH – Lower High
LTF – Low Time Frame
LOD – Low of Day

MA – Moving Average
MB – Mitigation Block
MH – Monthly High
ML – Monthly Low
MMxM – Market Maker Sell/Buy Model
MS – Market Structure
MSB – Market Structure Break
MT – Mean Threshold
M-SL – Manual SL

NYKZ – New York Kill Zone
NYO – New York Open

OB – Order Block (+OB = Bullish Order block / -OB = Bearish Order block )
OF – Order Flow
OTE – Optimal Trade Entry

PA – Price Action
PB – Propulsion Block
PDH – Previous Daily High
PDL – Previous Daily Low
PMH – Previous Monthly High
PML – Previous Monthly Low
PSH – Previous Session High
PSL – Previous Session Low
PWH – Previous Weekly High
PWL – Previous Weekly Low
POI – Point of Interest
PO3 – Power of 3

QM – Quasimodo
RJB – Rejection Block
RR – Risk to Reward
RRR – Retracement Reaction Rally
RTB – Return to Breaker
RTO – Return to Order Block

SH – Stop Hunt
S/R – Support & Resistance
SIBI – Sell Side Imbalance / Buy Side Inefficiency
SL – Stop Loss
SMR – Smart Money Reversal
SMS – Shift Market Structure
SMT – Smart Money Technique / Tool
SP – Stops Purged
SSL – Sell Side/Sell Stop Liquidity

TA – Technical Analysis
TDO – True Daily Open
TDC – True Daily Close
TP – Take Profit
TL – Trendline
TSBM – Turtle Soup Buy Model
TSSM – Turtle Soup Sell Model

VB – Vacuum Block
WDYS – What Do You See?

MARKET MAKER BUY MODEL (MMBM)

MARKET MAKER SELL MODEL (MMSM)