Advanced ICT Order Block Forex Trading Strategy: High-Gain!

Set up two essential tools for the course—Microsoft OneNote for daily price-action journaling and a TradingView account for analysis and chart annotations—and begin by studying price action.

Explore TradingView's charting platform by navigating the four menus, customizing charts with timeframes, themes, indicators, draws, and watch list, and learning basic tools like replay, snapshots, and symbol search.

Set up your TradingView platform by configuring the time zone to New York time (UTC-4/UTC-5) and enabling the week and day separate indicators and the ICT kill zone indicator.

Set up the ICT period separators and ICT sessions indicators on a euro usd one-hour chart, tune weekly and daily separators, line styles, colors, and visibility for clear, organized charts.

Configure the ICT killzone indicator to show time sessions on your chart. Disable high and low, set London, New York, and Asian windows, and adjust colors for a cleaner view.

Create your study journal using OneNote or another journaling tool, set up an account, verify your email, and prepare your journal for annotations and daily studies.

Create and organize your study journal in OneNote by building notebooks, sections, and pages for daily and weekly annotations, including image insertions and cross-device syncing.

Learn to annotate trading charts in TradingView using arrows and text, capture screenshots, and organize observations into a topic-based study journal for highs, lows, and related insights.

Explore the time and price theory, treating price as a function of time. Learn how London and New York sessions form the daily high and low and guide entries.

Explore the time of day concept across London, New York, and Asian sessions in UTC New York time, to backtest ideas, identify high-probability setups, and journal daily highs and lows.

Focus on Monday through Wednesday as high probability days, especially Tuesday and Wednesday, aligned with the weekly bias and the weekly range.

Outline the key times of day and days of the week in your charts and annotate them in your journal with key highs, lows, and price action notes.

Explore the breaker concept in higher time frame analysis, identifying key levels, liquidity grabs, and breakouts using order blocks and fair value gaps for high-probability entries.

Explore bearish and bullish breakers, defined by a break in structure after liquidity is taken at a key level, followed by a retest and potential liquidity targets.

Identify bullish and bearish breakouts in your charts, then annotate and record examples in a dedicated journal section to see how breakouts look and work.

Identify market direction by analyzing monthly and weekly bias with the dollar index, and use these biases to spot high-probability daily forex setups based on liquidity and fair value gaps.

Determine the current weekly and daily bias in your charts, analyze bias shifts, and annotate them in a journal daily and weekly to improve analysis and identify entry setups.

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Learn how buy side and sell side liquidity drive reversals after liquidity is taken out, and identify weekly and daily highs and lows for actionable charts.

Learn how to determine liquidity in forex by analyzing monthly imbalances and fair value gaps, weekly sell-side liquidity, daily order blocks, and break in structure toward buy-side liquidity.

Identify the current drone liquidity on weekly and daily charts, annotate in your journal before and after the market reaches the draw, and observe how liquidity attracts price over time.

Explore market structure, learn how shifts and breaks signal near-term or longer-term trend changes, and identify high-time-frame liquidity and short-term highs for entry opportunities.

Define order flow as a one-directional market movement toward a target, using sell side liquidity, inversion fair value gap, and breakers, with the target triggering a shift in flow.

Measure order flow by identifying shifts after taking liquidity at key levels, such as a monthly fair value gap, then confirm with imbalances and a break in market structure.

Define the order block where institutional orders move the market; identify bearish and bullish blocks, confirm with closing signals, and use opening, midpoint, and high levels for retests.

Identify bullish and bearish order blocks on price charts, mark the high, opening, low, and 50% midpoint, and observe retests on EURUSD and GBPUSD across weekly and daily charts.

Identify high probability order blocks by combining higher timeframe order flow with liquidity, and confirm via weekly and daily chart retests on bullish or bearish blocks.

Identify high probability order blocks on your charts, annotate findings in your journal, and practice daily and weekly until you master order block identification.

Master order block entry rules with bearish and bullish setups, using the order block's low and open for bearish entries, and the high and open for bullish entries.

Master stop-loss placement within the order block strategy by using the order block’s high, low, or midpoint. Add 2–3 pips for spread to manage risk.

Explore exit and take-profit strategies for order block trading by targeting the nearest liquidity to exit positions.

Time entries by confirming an order block, using a close below for bearish and a close above for bullish signals, then enter on the retest.

Outline the entry and exit points of order blocks on your charts, annotate stop-loss placement using the order block strategy, and record daily and weekly setups in your journal.

Demonstrates a swing trade using the order block strategy, identifying higher timeframe bearish order flow and entering at the order block low with a stop at the high.

Explore a swing trade on the pound USD chart using a bullish weekly gap and an order block. Enter on a close above the block with a stop below.

Demonstrate a day trade using a bullish one-hour order block on NZD/USD, with entry at the block high, a stop below, and targets near weekly liquidity and imbalances, including partials.

watch a bullish usd/jpy day-trade using a daily order block, liquidity targets, and a midpoint-entry with staged take-profits across key daily levels.

Demonstrates scalping with the order block strategy on USD/CAD, mapping liquidity points and entering on a five-minute chart during the New York session for a 4.55 R target.

Identify ten setup examples in your charts using the order block strategy; determine weekly and daily order flow, outline high-probability blocks, and journal daily to master the method.

Develop a personalized trading plan to enter and exit markets with disciplined, risk-managed rules, reduce emotional decisions, and enable continuous improvement through journaling and review.

Define clear, easy to follow trading rules by including partials, premium or discount entries, stop loss and money management, and confirm setups with higher time frame and market structure shift.

Apply a practical risk management model for forex, defining risk per trade (1%), using partials, and targeting liquidity with a 2:1 reward-to-risk. Master position sizing and drawdown control.

Backtest with 3–6 months of data to validate time and price theory, fair value gaps, liquidity, and breakouts; log observations in a journal after weekly market closes for consistency.

Apply tape reading as the forward testing stage after back testing, observing live market conditions to prove and repeat a strategy by weekly recordings for at least three months.

Begin demo practice after back testing and tape reading to build six months of consistency before live trading, using paper trading on TradingView and a detailed trade setups journal.

Apply the 13 trade block challenge to test consistency between demo practice and live trading, logging and reviewing each of the first 13 trades to ensure discipline and measurable progress.

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