ICT One Trade Setup for Life – Complete Trading Model

Learn all about the ICT one trade setup for life in this blog post, from its formation and identification to its trading application, with real market examples.

By studying this post thoroughly and practicing, you’ll gain the ability to trade the ICT one trade setup for life like a professional.

Now let’s start with defining the ICT one trade setup for life.

What is ICT One Trade Setup for Life?

ICT one trade setup for life is basically a complete trading model based on the following concepts.

(I) ICT Daily Bias

(II) Draw on Liquidity

(III) PM Session Liquidity Raid

(IV) London Session Liquidity Raid

(V) Opening Range Gaps

(VI) New York Lunch Raid

(VII) AM Session Liquidity Raid

This setup repeats over and over again and can be used for scalping as well as day trading.

If you master the ICT one trade setup for life you don’t need any other thing to trade it’s a complete model.

Before going forward toward the ICT one trade setup for life, you need to understand what is draw on liquidity.

What is Draw on Liquidity?

As you know the Liquidity means willing buyers and sellers at current market price.

But in term of trading liquidity means the liquidation price of active traders either sellers or buyers.

Draw on liquidity means hunting the liquidity of active traders like hitting their stop losses or activating their stop orders like sell stops or buy stops.

Draw on liquidity is the sole purpose of price delivery.

How to Trade using ICT One Trading Setup for Life?

To trade using ICT one trade setup for life you have to follow the steps explained below as told by the ICT himself and set your trading view time window to the New York local time.

(I) PM Session Ranges

PM session range is basically the previous days price delivery and for PM session range you have to look for 01:30 PM to 04:00 PM (New York local time) range.

Mark the highest high and lowest low of PM session range. Above the highest high rest the buy side liquidity and below the lowest low rests the sell side liquidity.

If your Daily Bias is bullish you will anticipate the price to run below the PM session range low to raid the sell side liquidity and create an ICT Judas Swing

And if you are bearish you will look for the price to run above PM session high for liquidity raid and ICT Judas Swing

After the liquidity raid you will wait for ICT Market Structure Shift in the direction of your daily bias and the you can execute a trade at the retest , in the direction of your daily bias.

(II) London Session Raid

If the PM session is not a factor or the price is far away from PM session range then you will look for London session liquidity raid for trade execution.

Mark the London session range 02:00 AM to 05:00 AM (highest high and lowest low).

On the New York opening if you are bullish you will anticipate the run below the low of London session range for sell side liquidity raid.

And if your daily bias is bearish you will anticipate a run above the high of London session range for buy side liquidity hunt.

And the process after the liquidity hunt is same for every session, you will look for market structure shift in the direction of your daily bias and then you can execute a trade on the retracement in the direction of your bias.

(III) Opening Range Gaps

Opening gap is the event that takes place in regular trading hours when trading is stopped and market reopens at 08:30 AM for forex and 09:30 AM (New York local time) for indices like Nasdaq and S&P500.

If your daily bias is bearish and price opens with a gap then wait until NY lunch hour because the algorithm will engineer liquidity in morning and during lunch hour at 01:30 PM (NY Local time).

After the lunch hour anticipate the price to approach the opening gap and then selling off to take the liquidity engineered during AM session and lunch hour.

(IV) New York Lunch Raid

If price has not done anything all yet like PM session raid, London session raid or Opening gap range then you will look for New York lunch raid.

Mark the New York lunch range (highest high and the lowest low) from12:00 PM to 01:30 PM (New York local time).

If you are bearish look for the New York lunch range high to be raided for buy side liquidity and the a market structure shift to the downside to execute a sell trade.

If your daily bias is bullish look for New York lunch range low to be raided for sell side liquidity and then a market structure shift to the upside to execute a buy trade.

(V) AM Session Liquidity Raid

Previous day’s AM session (09:30 AM to Noon) liquidity is basically the target you will be looking for.

If you are bullish and have got the trade setup then your final target will be the previous day’s AM session’s high.

And if you are bearish and you have got the trade opportunity then your final profit target will be AM session’s low.