Why You're Failing with ICT Concepts

how's it going everyone in today's video we are going to talk about

why most people fail trading ict and

it's not due to the lack of knowledge or the lack of understanding

the concepts it's just the inability to filter through the concepts and focus on one so in today's video we are going to talk about choosing a PD array.

So when I am talking about PD arrays, what do I mean?

I mean the individual concepts, such as a fair value gap, an inversion, a breaker block, an order block or change in the state of delivery, and even an OTE or a Fibonacci tool.

Now, it's great to understand all of these concepts and be able to see them, but when it comes down to actually trading with

these concepts, is it beneficial or more detrimental to try to use all of them? And let's go take a look at that.

If you've seen my order of reversal video, you know this is what I look for in a reversal forming.

We have a turtle soup, an inversion, a change in the state of delivery, or the formation of an order block, a breaker, and a fair value gap.

Now, if I'm looking at this all together all at once, it's a bit clustered and there's a lot to look at.

I don't really have my focus on anything, right? So I need to go ahead and decide on which one I want to focus on.

So how do I go about choosing a PD array to use or to master? And these are the questions I would ask myself.

Which PD array is easiest for you to see on the chart? Which one makes the most sense? And how much confirmation do you need?

So what do I mean by that? So if we go back to this slide here, which one is actually easiest for you to see?

When you look at this, what is the first thing that you spot. For me, it's the change in the state of delivery.

These down close candles here that sweep out the low and then is closed over, that makes the most sense to me and that is what my strategy is based around.

However, if it is an inversion for you, then use that. If it's a fair value gap, then use that.

Now, the next thing I want to talk about is how much confirmation you need.

Some people prefer a little confirmation, some prefer more, and some prefer a lot of confirmation.

I prefer to trade with more confirmation and trade the continuations as I already have anticipated the trend to have changed and I'm not trying to catch that reversal.

So what does it look like with a little confirmation? Well, if I was going to be entering below this low, I'm currently entering in a downtrend and I don't really have much confirmation that a reversal has formed here.

However, if I want a little bit more confirmation, if I let a inversion form or a change in the state of delivery after the running of this low,

that's more confirmation to this reversal to get on side with the move in the other direction.

If I want even more confirmation, that's when I can look for that fair value gap or the breaker formation as we have then clearly shifted structure and continuing trend in the other direction.

So my final words are to find a PD array that suits you. Forget the rest.

Stop trying to learn and use every single PD array and mark up all the chart.

While this is something you can do in hindsight and make sense of price action, it's not something you're going to be able to do real time and so it's a lot easier to execute when you're only focused on one PD array.

So the next thing I would say is use the one PD array you selected and then use that in combination with highs and lows.

So for instance, if I'm going to use a fair value gap, I'll also look at highs and lows.

If I'm going to use a border block, I'll also use highs and lows.

You really have to use highs and lows or liquidity in combination with the selected PD array.

And then the last thing is to stop jumping around to new things.

When you hit a little struggle in your trading, it doesn't mean you need to throw everything away and find something new and shiny to focus on.

That's not going to fix your problems. You just need to lock in on one strategy and one concept.

So let's get into the charts and I'll show you what I mean with this presentation.

So here we are in our first example and you can see we have went and taken out these highs to our left or our previous day's highs.

Now if we're going to have an order of a reversal, the first

thing we have would be a turtle soup right so a sweep

above highs and that would have the least amount of

confirmation and what does that mean it means that if i

was going to look to take an entry in here i have no protected

high or anything like that to be trading off of so

many times price unless it's going to reverse right here we'll go ahead and stop that out numerous times before catching a winner it doesn't have a lot of confirmation that the reversal has formed.

So the next thing would be an inversion. That would be number two.

So if we have a closure below this fair value gap here, that would give more confirmation that a reversal or this high has been put in.