Easiest Way To Trade ICT in 2026 as a Beginner (2 Hours) – Transcript

00:00I'm about to teach you everything that there is to know about ICT. So, if you've been stuck in this rabbit hole, bouncing from video to video and overthinking everything, wondering why it seems like everybody besides you is winning trading ICT, then today we solve that forever. And to be clear, if you feel stuck, you are not alone. Because just a couple of years ago, I was door dashing, delivering burgers to fund $100 into my trading account. But fast forward a couple years and I've made

00:26millions of dollars. I've gotten funded with multiple prop firms. I've had multiple six-figure months. And in just the last couple of weeks, I made $46,000 trading ICT concepts. But it didn't start like that because for years, I was in the exact same place that you're in right now. I was emotional. I was overtrading, confused, and I felt like it was never going to work. So, with my younger self in mind, I took everything that I've learned over the last nine years, all the mistakes, all the breakthroughs, the wins and the losses,

00:53and I condensed it into what I'm going to share with you today. Now, yes, this is a full free course, but I want you to take this seriously, like you paid for it. Because truth be told, I'm going to teach you more than you'll learn in most paid courses. And a lot of people ask me, why do I give all this out for free?

01:08And the goal is simple, because I want to make thousands of profitable traders. So, pay close attention, take notes, and let's get started. All right, guys. Before we get started, I want to pull back the curtain on my broker statement for transparency. As you can see, my name right here, and I made $46,000 in just the last couple of weeks trading.

01:25And here are some of the trades I've taken using the exact knowledge that I'm going to teach you guys today. Here's one where I made $17,000. Here's another where I made $6,500 in one single trade. And then here's another one where I made $6,000. And today I'm going to teach you everything that I've learned in the last nine years that helped me take those trades and make all the money that I've made from trading. And I'm going to be giving away $1,000 to three of you today. But you have to pay close attention for instructions on how to enter this giveaway. Now, today we're

01:53going to go over everything from how to get started trading ICT to core knowledge all the way to building a profitable trading system, how to trade prop firms, and how to set yourself up for long-term success. And as you can see, we've got a lot to cover. So, let's get started. Now, before we fully dive in, I want you guys to download the free study guide by clicking the link in the description. I made this video to make as many profitable traders as possible.

02:17So, please take this serious. So, if you want this to actually work, download the guide and follow along. All right, so a lot of you guys already know this, but for those who don't, let's go over what ICT is. So, the idea with ICT is we're always looking for liquidity because this is where the smart money trades.

02:34Now, when I say smart money, I mean the large market participants, the banks, the whales, the hedge funds, because we all know the markets are manipulated and we all know that most traders lose money because they get manipulated out of their positions. You see it with the news telling you that the market's crashing and that's the best time to buy or vice versa. Whenever the markets are bullish in the news, that's the time you want to sell. So, why is this? Well, let's just take a look at this price example. Now, what do you see here? You

03:00see a range and there's probably people who think that we're going to be bearish and there's probably some people who think we're going to be bullish. Now, all the people that want to be bearish, they're going to put their stop loss up here at this level. So, no matter if they got short here or wherever, there's going to be a lot of people who say, "If we go above this range, then I'm going to get out of my trade." And there's also going to be a lot of people who look to buy above that level because they look at it like a breakout. So,

03:27what this would be is called buyside liquidity. Okay? Now, liquidity is just an area where there's a lot of people willing to exchange the asset, whatever it may be. So, if we see the market rush up into one of these levels, then we know there's a lot of buying going on there. Whether it's people getting stopped out on their shorts, so that's a buy. Like, if you're in a sell and you get stopped out, that's the equivalent to a buy because you sold to enter. You have to buy to exit. Or people are

03:53looking to get into a long at this level. Now, they're buying and they're buying the breakout. Now, whenever we go into these areas, these are prime zones where smart money is going to interact. Now, this is going to shift you guys to think like a true market maker or like you are the smart money because that's the only way that you're going to survive in these markets. Now, if you look at it like this, let's just say you had $10 million you needed to enter a position with. Now, you have to have enough people that are going to be

04:22buying. Like, let's say if you wanted to take a $10 million sale, well, you have to wait until there's enough buyers to satisfy that order. So, where are there going to be a lot of buyers? At liquidity pools, right? Where a lot of people are getting manipulated in the market. So if you're a whale, you're going to look to sell at these liquidity zones. And in this example, we can see that that is exactly what happened. So ICT is all about being able to track this market manipulation so you can trade with it rather than getting

04:49manipulated and losing money because of it. So the idea is that we follow the path that smart money leaves behind through price action with no indicators in order to trade profitably. Now, you've seen tons of people trade this and a lot of people are successful and you may have been struggling with this and the reason is because online this is the most complicated stuff and a lot of people make it way harder than it has to be. But today, we're going to solve all of that for good because I'm going to

05:16show you the simplest way to trade ICT effectively. Now, in this example, let's say Smart Money sold a lot of positions up here. Well, then where are they likely to go take the market next? They're going to take it to the next area of liquidity. So, if you look at this chart, where would you see a lot of stop- losses being placed? Well, if you said right here, you're correct because there's a lot of lows. So, anywhere there's a lot of lows or a lot of highs, there's going to be a lot of liquidity, and that's going to act as a magnet for

05:44price. Now, I want to be clear that price won't always reverse from every pool of liquidity. And I'm going to show you guys how to know when the market's reversing or when it's going to continue. Now, in this example, you can pay attention closely to how we react to highs and lows. And this can always tell you where the market's likely to go because if we are manipulating highs and if we're displacing through lows, that tells us that the market's likely bearish. Because if we come above a

06:12high, you got to think of every time we come above a high, that is an opportunity for Smart Money to sell. And if we come below a low, that's an opportunity for Smart Money to buy. But in this example, we see that smart money isn't buying, but they are selling. And as long as you see this continue, you would then look for the market to trade to lows. Now, what's happening at these lows is there is a lot of traders who are going to either have their stop losses or breakout orders to sell. So, this is what you would call sellside

06:40liquidity because anyone who is long in this whole range is likely now going to be stopped out. And there's going to be a lot of traders who look to sell under this area. So, anywhere you see a lot of liquidity is a honeypot for smart money to take place. And we're going to go over numerous ways to read the market through the lens of smart money. That way, you can stop getting manipulated and start profiting from market manipulation. Now, really quick, for those of you guys who are brand new, let's talk about candlesticks and the

07:08way that they work. Now, if we have a bullish candle, the lowest part of the body, so the body is the square part, that is where price opened. Now, what this shows us is that price traveled all the way up to the top of this wick, but it didn't close at the very high. It closed right here. So, that's the close.

07:24And then you have the high and the low. Now, this example is from a 1 hour chart, but you can use literally any time frame to visualize price action. And all we're doing is visualizing that time range is price action. What was the highest high? What was the low? Where did it open? Where did it close? Now, this is very important because whenever you're bearish, you're going to expect the open and then the high to be made.

07:48Because if the market's being manipulated, what are we going to see? We're going to see the market jab up before moving down, and then you're going to come up for the close. So, whenever you're bearish, you need to understand that whatever time frame you're looking at is likely going to go up first, make the high, and then push down to make the low and the close. This is going to be important for the time and price module later that I'm going to teach you today. Now, also something that is very important for today's

08:15teachings is understanding of a swing high the way that I teach it. Now, a lot of people will have complicated ways of doing this. They'll have a bunch of different highs and they'll say that, you know, this is the the swing high and this is the low. I don't look at it like that. The best way to do it is every single candle that has a lower high on either side. So see right here, right here, this middle candle has a lower high on either side. That makes it a swing high. Now for swing lows, it's

08:42vice versa. This candle has a higher low on each side. So that makes it a swing low. It does not have to make new structure or any of these other complicated ways in order for you to use swing lows and swing highs for the way that I teach price action. Now, I want to go back to this example and show you something that I like to call trapped traders. Okay, guys. trap traders is going to be a very very important idea in ICT concepts. So if you look right

09:08here in this example, we understand that the smart money is selling. But every time the smart money is selling, there has to be buyers. So you have to look at it like a lot of people are going long right here. Now what's going to happen is whenever the market moves against them, they're going to have their stop losses at different places because there's a lot of traders who trade the breakout of every high. Some of you guys watching are probably those traders, but after today, we're going to fix that for good. But these traders, they're going to have their stops here. They're going to have them here at this low. They're going to have them at this low. They're gonna have them all over the place. And

09:37you have to understand that when traders are getting stopped out of a long, right? Like if all these traders are in longs. If they're getting stopped out and everybody gets stopped out, that is so much selling pressure, which then causes these aggressive moves like you see here. So understanding where traders are trapped in the market can tell you where the market's likely to go and where it's not likely to return. Because if people were buying above this high, you're very likely to see price not return there. Because if we're smart

10:03money, we don't want to see traders get out here for a profit. They are fuel to move price to the downside. So, as we've said, liquidity is just the ease at which an asset is bought or sold. So, if we have a range, we know there's going to be a lot of buying at the top of it, and there's going to be a lot of selling. Now whether this is from people getting stopped out on shorts or people trying to buy the breakout or whether it's people getting stopped out on longs or people trying to sell this breakdown.

10:28Now you have to understand that price is always going to be moving from liquidity pool to the next because price moves to fill orders. It's not because of some random pattern like a bull flag or anything you've learned. You have to understand that the largest amounts of liquidity build at key levels and this is how we're going to find our support and resistance. This is how we're going to find where we are going to do business in the market. Now, I want you guys to remember this because this is so powerful and if you ask yourself what the market's doing at every turn with this in mind, you're going to be a much

10:56better trader. So, in a bullish market, you buy from sellers under lows at sellside liquidity. So, for example, if you are looking for the market to be bullish, if you come under lows, you're expecting the market to go higher. So you want to be positioned under those lows and be buying from all the people who are selling. Now in a bearish market you sell to buyers above highs at buyside liquidity. So for example once the market comes above highs in a

11:22bearish market you want to see it reverse and you want to be selling with the smart money. This is exactly how the largest market participants operate. So you should too. And if you watch price action and ask yourself how is price behaving? Are we manipulating highs or are we manipulating lows? You'll be able to have a very clear read on the markets. All right, so now that we've got some of the basics out of the way, let's get into the core concepts of ICT.

11:48We're going to start with market structure. Now, market structure is simply highs and lows. Now, the key is knowing which highs and lows to use and having a practical, repeatable method of finding market structure. Now, the reason market structure is important is because it is the foundation of everything else you do, and it's going to be involved in almost every concept that you learn. Yet, most people do it completely wrong or have complicated ways of doing it that cause them to be paralyzed when it comes time to trade.

12:17Now, you've probably seen diagrams like this, right? Like, it wouldn't it be easy if the market just moved like this? Now, of course, yes, we understand that market structure is higher highs and higher lows, but we all know it's not that easy. Or maybe it is. Now, after years of struggling with market structure and losing trades because I didn't know what I was doing, I realized that the only market structure that was valid was whenever it was accompanied by displacement. Now, if you guys have been watching my channel for any period of