Effective ICT Forex Trading Course: Fair Value Gap (FVG)

Set up your journaling tool (OneNote) and TradingView for chart annotations, learn to study price action, and prepare your accounts before applying any strategy.

Sign up for a TradingView account with email, verify via the link, and activate; compare plans, start with the basic plan, and learn to upgrade while configuring your profile.

Navigate the TradingView charting platform to analyze assets using candlesticks, timeframes, and indicators. Manage your profile, themes, drawing tools, and watch lists for effective forex trading.

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

Learn how to set up ICT period separators (week and day separators) on the euro/usd one-hour chart, adjust colors, widths, and visibility to clearly distinguish weekly and daily sessions.

Set up Leon Solo's ICT killzone indicator from the indicators tab to outline London, Asian, and New York sessions on a 15-minute USD chart with cleaner, color-coded zones.

Learn how to create a study journal account using OneNote as an example, including signing up, verifying your email, logging in, and preparing your account for annotations and daily studies.

Create a OneNote study journal with a notebook, sections for daily and weekly annotations, and dated pages. Copy, move, paste notes and images, with cloud saving and cross-device access.

Annotate TradingView charts with arrows and text, capture observations as screenshots, and organize them in a study journal by topics and dates to document highs, lows, and key insights.

Define the fair value gap as a price inefficiency created when price moves in one direction, typically a three-candle gap between two candles, often retested later.

Analyze the inversion fair value gap to identify resistance, detect a bias shift, and anticipate price moves as buy side liquidity is targeted.

Learn to recognize fair value gaps on price charts by analyzing bullish and bearish gaps, retests, and inversion gaps in daily EURUSD charts.

Identify five fair value and inversion gaps on your charts, annotate retest outcomes in your journal, and record how the market retraces to key levels after retests.

Identify high probability fair value gaps on the pound usd by analyzing liquidity, break in structure, and bullish order flow; retests of gaps drive strong moves toward buy side targets.

Explore time and price theory, showing how price is a function of time across London and New York sessions. Identify where highs and lows form and the key watch hours.

Explore time-of-day trading across the London, New York, and Asian sessions to spot high-probability setups. Align charts to UTC New York time and annotate daily highs and lows.

Focus on high probability days from Monday to Wednesday, aligned with the weekly bias, using fair value gaps or order blocks to target the week's high or low.

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

Learn liquidity by distinguishing buy side and sell side liquidity, how old highs and lows trigger reversals as smart money acts, and annotate weekly and daily highs and lows.

Determine liquidity using the monthly fair value gap, weekly sell-side liquidity, and daily order blocks; identify break in structure and drawn liquidity toward potential buy-side liquidity.

Determine the weekly and daily charts' drone liquidity, annotate your journal before and after the market reaches it, and review weekly for signs the market is attracted to it.

Identify bearish and bullish order blocks as the last up close and last down close candles, then observe retests for setup confirmations. Note key levels: opening, midpoint, high, and low.

Explore market structure, revealing how shifts and breaks in structure signal near-term and longer-term trends, confirm entries, and guide liquidity-driven price moves across time frames.

Discover how a breaker forms when a higher time frame key level is hit and liquidity is taken, signaling bullish or bearish breakouts with fair value gaps and retests.

the lecture showcases bearish and bullish breakers with two-candle examples on the dollar index and euro usd, highlighting break structure, liquidity takeouts, and retest-based entries.

Identify bullish and bearish breakouts in your charts and annotate them in a dedicated journal section to observe how breakouts work and what they look like.

Define market bias as the current direction, focusing on monthly and weekly bias using the dollar index. Introduce fair value gaps and liquidity concepts that shape forex setups.

Determine the current weekly bias and daily bias in your charts, note when and where shifts occur, and annotate them daily and weekly to improve entry setups.

Define order flow as a one directional market move toward a target, illustrated by breaking above an inversion fair value gap, revisiting key levels and liquidity.

Learn how to measure order flow by identifying shifts, liquidity takeouts at monthly fair value gaps, imbalances, a break in market structure, and the continuation of order flow.

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Explain fair value gap entry rules: bearish entries at the low of the gap, bullish entries at the high, with the midpoint as a higher-probability optional entry.

Place stops using the high of the fair value gap candle in bearish trades with 2–3 pips above, or below the gap's low in bullish trades with 2–3 pips below.

Learn exit and take-profit strategies for fair value gap trading by targeting the nearest opposing liquidity or the next opposing fair value gap, in bullish and bearish setups.

Explore the inversion fair value gap as an alternative entry strategy, detailing gap formation, retesting behavior, entry at the low or midpoint, and stop-loss placement.

Outline the entry and exit points of fair value gaps (FVG) in your charts, specify stop loss placements, and practice the inversion fair value gap entry technique daily and weekly.

Demonstrate a EURUSD swing trade using a fair value gap strategy. Trace higher-time-frame order flow, daily-entry setup, and exits via nearest liquidity and fair value targets.

Frame a GBPUSD swing trade on the daily chart using the weekly break in structure. Use a fair value gap and sell-side liquidity to define a high-probability setup and targets.

Apply the fair value gap entry strategy on the daily DXY, align higher time frame order flow with a one hour retest of a daily gap to target daily highs.

Explore a day trading example on audusd using fair value gap strategy and liquidity concepts, with entry on the gap retest during London or New York sessions, targeting buy-side liquidity.

Identify bearish order flow on the one-hour xauusd chart and use a fair value gap as the key level; scalp on the five-minute chart during London or New York sessions.

Engage in a practical exercise to find at least ten setups in your charts, annotate them in your journal, and reinforce the course concepts and strategy through daily practice.

Develop a structured personalized trading plan that defines how you enter trades and manage risk. Boost consistency, reduce emotional trading, and support continuous improvement through evaluation and journaling.

Develop and apply practical trading rules for ict forex trading, emphasizing taking partials, entering at premium or discount, stop loss, higher time frame levels, money management, and drawdown control.

Apply a practical risk management model by defining risk per trade, taking partials toward liquidity, and calculating position size. Manage drawdown and set weekly and monthly objectives.

Start backtesting time and price theory, fair value gaps, liquidity, and breakouts with 3 to 6 months of data, then log weekly chart observations to build consistency.

Move from back testing to tape reading or forward testing by observing live charts and proving that setups repeat, then journal observations with screenshots.

Start demo practice after back testing and tape reading to see the strategy in live conditions, log trades in a trade setups journal, and build consistency with paper trading.

Practice consistent, rule-based trading from back testing through demo practice to a live 13 trade block challenge, logging setups in a journal, reviewing results, and maintaining emotional discipline.

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