ICT Strategy articles

This section gathers ICT strategies and setups: complete trade plans built from Michael J. Huddleston's concepts. Each one follows the same sequence. Price raids a pool of liquidity, shifts structure with a market structure shift (MSS) and displacement, then returns to a PD array where the entry sits. Most setups also trade only inside a kill zone, such as the London open or the New York AM session, and only with the daily bias.

The setups differ in their trigger. The Silver Bullet takes a fair value gap (FVG) inside a one-hour window, such as 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. New York time. The Unicorn model enters where a breaker block overlaps an FVG. Optimal trade entry (OTE) places the order in the 62% to 79% retracement of the displacement leg. Turtle Soup fades a failed run on an old high or low, and the Venom model trades the raid on the 08:00 to 09:30 New York range.

Every guide here is free ICT education with a PDF. Each one takes a single model from bias to exit: the liquidity that must be taken first, the shift that confirms it, the array that holds the order, and bullish and bearish chart examples.

Every entry plan defines its own invalidation. The stop sits beyond the swing that raided liquidity, and the target is the opposite pool, such as the previous day's high or low. The Power of Three frames the session around it: accumulation, a Judas swing against the bias, then distribution.