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STEAL This SIMPLE ICT Liquidity Strategy - $2.5M+ Payouts (SNIPER Entries)

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Overview

This episode focuses on a proprietary ICT-style liquidity strategy used for futures scalping around major market sessions, particularly London and New York.

The core premise is that price action is driven by an “algorithm” that targets and creates liquidity—often via stop clusters around prior highs/lows. Trades are structured around:

  • Time-of-day (Kill Zones)
  • Liquidity sweeps
  • Fair value gap (FVG) confirmation
  • Displacement/speed on lower timeframes

Instruments / Assets Mentioned

  • Futures indices

    • ES
    • ENQ (NQ)
    • MNQ (micro NQ)

  • Single-stock tickers

    • No specific stock tickers were named for trading.
    • “AMD” appears in the ICT acronym context as:
      • Accumulation / Manipulation / Distribution (not the company stock).

Key Time Windows & Session Framework

London Killzone (LCON / “London Killzone”)

  • 2:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. EST

Guidance:

  • Do not trade before 2:00 a.m. EST, even if a setup appears—it’s said to increase overtrading/losses and erode “mental capital.”

New York Open / Fast Session

  • References ~9:30 a.m. ET as the RTH (regular trading hours) start
  • Includes activity into the open from premarket

Midnight Opening (MO / “magnet”)

  • Draw a line from 12:00 a.m. EST
  • Price is expected to “want to come back” to it

Opening Gaps / Reference Levels

  • Used as magnets/confluence:
    • RTH gap
    • New day opening gap
    • Outage gap levels measured at 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
  • Common target cited: around 75% (more aggressive case)

ICT Strategy Components (Step-by-Step Playbook)

1) Top-down analysis (higher timeframe)

  • Uses Weekly and Daily candles
  • If the Asia range doesn’t produce clear liquidity, shift to higher timeframe liquidity points such as:
    • Daily FOG
    • Previous daily high
    • Last week daily high (external liquidity)
  • Uses 1-hour “AG/EQ” as an internal liquidity pool (main higher-timeframe anchor alongside daily)

2) Define the liquidity target

  • Identify:
    • Asia high/low
    • prior daily highs/lows
    • other swing/market highs/lows that form stop clusters
  • Expectation: the “manipulation” phase will sweep liquidity first (take stops)

3) Wait for “manipulation” / liquidity sweep

  • Displacement reflects conviction in price movement
  • Emphasis on displacement + speed
  • Most visible on 15-second (or very short) charts

4) Look for FVG confirmation

After sweep + displacement, wait for the correct FVG structure:

  • Entry described as:
    • Bearish FG/FVG (in the manipulation context)
    • then a valid inverted FVG (IFG) confirmation

Conservative vs aggressive:

  • Conservative: wait for the candle body to close and for the FVG to become “valid” (i.e., bullish candle close “passes” the bearish FVG)
  • Aggressive: may enter earlier inside/near the bearish FVG, with a caution that beginners shouldn’t

5) Entry execution (order type + timeframes)

  • Uses market orders (not limit)
  • Primary execution reference: 1-minute
  • Also monitors:
    • 15-second
    • “first seconds” charts
  • Rationale: 1-minute isn’t “noise”—it still shows displacement and speed, while 15s makes it easier to see clearly

6) Stop-loss rules

Stops are tied to liquidity logic and invalidation levels (e.g., order block / swing low).

Typical maximum stop figures:

  • London: often 20–25 points max originally, later adjusted to 30–40 points depending on volatility
  • New York: can require larger stops; if spreads/range are large:
    • reduce position size
    • sometimes switch from NQ to MNQ

Rule-of-thumb:

  • If you need a larger stop block to enter, then it’s not the correct entry point.

7) Trade management / profit-taking

  • Uses bracket orders with at least 1:2 minimum risk-to-reward
  • Targets often focus on the nearest higher-timeframe liquidity pools
  • Preferred exit style:
    • base-hit / scalper exits
    • less “diamond hand” behavior (especially in London, where she expects fewer extended directional runs)
  • Proactive risk management:
    • trail stop when a minor liquidity sweep appears on ~15s/short charts
    • sometimes reduce risk quickly (e.g., from ~$500 down to ~$400/$300)
  • Partials sometimes used; otherwise close at first/second objectives

8) Daily loss limits (risk controls)

For prop accounts/personal accounts, hard dollar limits are emphasized.

  • Example personal daily limit: $3,000
  • Prop account limits vary by account size and drawdown/consistency rules (referenced as differing by firm/account)

Key Numbers / Performance Claims / Recommendations

Performance / Payout Claims (as stated)

  • Claims of ICT-style scalping performance:
    • $1.1M single payout (attributed to “this trader” / prop context)
  • Mentions prop firm payouts:
    • Apex Trader Funding
      • already paid $600M+
      • largest payout record linked to $2.5M single payout (cited as “Jadecap”)

Trade examples described during the episode include:

  • ~$4,000 in 9 minutes
  • ~$4,000 in ~12 minutes
  • Multiple “A+” examples with ~$17,000 in ~10 minutes
  • One described as ~$34k to ~$40k in ~11 minutes (exact number varies in narration)

Risk/Reward & Stop Sizing Rules (explicit)

  • Minimum RR: 1:2 (via bracket orders)
  • London stop “typical max”:
    • 20–25 points initially
    • later 30–40 points with volatility/range changes
  • New York caution:
    • volatility can punish overly tight stops
    • sometimes MNQ is preferred for practicality

“A+ vs B+/C+” Setup Recommendation

She states she doesn’t only trade “A+”:

  • Trades A+ setups, plus B+ and C setups
  • Often uses smaller position sizing because even A+ setups can turn into losses (probabilistic)
  • Rationale:
    • waiting only for perfect setups can hurt mental capital and “manual capital”
    • smaller size on lower-grade setups may improve consistency

Disclosures / Disclaimers

  • Subtitles include promotional inserts for trading platforms/prop firms.
  • No clear “not financial advice” disclaimer is shown in the subtitle text provided.

Presenter / Sources Mentioned (from subtitles)

  • Candice (main trader/guest; stated she “trades live every single day”)
  • Chart Fanatics (host/channel referenced)
  • Prop firm / platform sponsor names mentioned:
    • Apex Trader Funding
    • NinjaTrader
    • Tradzella
    • Chart Academy

Other referenced traders/voices (as examples in related ICT discussion):

  • Ch King, Tina Trace, Jcap, Trader Kane, Jadecap, Kane

ICT references are attributed to “ICT” / Inner Circle Trader concepts, with no additional named presenter beyond Candice and the host context.

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