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Get funded with this ICT/SMC trading strategy 👀

It's such a stupidly simple strategy but so powerful 💥

In just one tweet I will be giving you very simple rules to follow ✍️

S/O to my mentor ICT for the knowledge 🙏

Read on 👇

You will have a HTF chart and a LTF chart

4 hr is the HTF
1 hr is the LTF

You will be using the HTF 4hr to find your key HTF POIs and to give you your direction

LTF 1 hour will be used for your confirmation signal and execution

So step one is to establish the trend and identify your HTF POI

In this example it is an old high

But it can be orderblocks, breakerblocks, basic support & resistance levels, and HTF liquidity pools

Next we want to see price come up in a premium and take that HTF POI

It comes up and purges that HTF buyside

After you test that HTF POI you will then go to your LTF

Remember the HTF chart is bearish atm but the LTF is bullish

You need it in conjunction

So you need that ltf shift in ms to the downside after testing that HTF level

Boom

There is your LTF shift in market structure after taking HTF liquidity

It came down and broke a short term low

It's also very important that when you have the shift it does not take out that HTF low (the low of that 4 hr range) (bottom blue line)

That is a draw

When you have that shift in market structure it's important that the break also creates a fair value gap

This is crucial for a high probability shift

For those that don't understand what a fair value gap is i'll link a vid at the end

Now that we got the LTF shift within that HTF range and we have our FVG confirmation we now need to get an entry to ride it down to that low of the 4 hr range

Where to enter?

OTE (62% on the Fibonacci)

It does it

It comes up above 62% of the displacement range and that's where you would enter

Your stop will be above the high of the displacement leg where you had the shift

Your profit target will be the low of that 4 hr price swing (bottom blue line)

It then sells off attacks the low and you lock in profits

This strategy on average will give a little over 2/1 rr

You can be correct a measly 50% of the time (coin flip) and be insanely profitable if you can exercise enough discipline to execute it consistently

Recap

You need to identify your HTF POI and trend
Price needs to test that POI and have a LTF shift off that level
The shift must leave FVG confirmation and also leave that low/high of the HTF swing untapped
Enter at OTE
Stop above the displacement high
Target the low

This is a bearish scenario but obviously you would just reverse it for bullish scenarios

And also remember price is fractal so what occurs on these timeframes occurs on other timeframes

As I already said your HTF POI does not have to be an old high like in this example it can be any level

BUT it's very important that in a bearish scenario when it tests that HTF level it is in a premium market place within that 4 hr range

Discount for bullish plays

First tweet I said you can get funded with this trading strategy and that is true but it will only happen if you got the discipline to execute on it

But that begs the question...what prop firm to pick?

@Bespoke_Funding is the best

You're in good hands with them

It CAN be this simple yall

So many people in the SMC community

Not ICT but alot of his students overcomplicate these teachings for the sake of trying to sound smart sell courses they want their ego pumped

KISS + keep it simple stupid

Simple systems are easier to execute

The best SMC traders are the ones who keep it simple and use a few concepts very well

Not the ones trying to do everything in the library
Not the ones acting like they cracked the enigma

Those chartists only do well on twitter in hindsight but they have no results

I recently made a video on my YouTube for this strategy as well

So if some things are still unclear just watch this video and it should clear it all up for you

Don't forget to like/subscribe while your over there :)

I stated you need to be aligned with the HTF trend

How do you learn how to determine that?

I have an entire series on market structure

Here is the link

youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Here is my video on fair value gaps

Video I made on premium and discount pricing

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