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ICT Mentorship Core Content - Month 1 - How Market Makers Condition The Market

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Main Ideas / Lessons Conveyed

  • “Market efficiency” is not for retail/speculators; it’s for “smart money.”

    • The speaker argues that markets are only “efficient” in the sense that they reliably deliver liquidity and price movement in ways that benefit the “smart money” (e.g., banks/market makers).
    • Retail traders are portrayed as uninformed “herd” liquidity that gets pushed around.

  • A paradigm shift is required: retail volume does not control price.

    • The speaker claims retail traders mistakenly believe they collectively drive price via supply/demand, indicators, trend lines, and moving averages.
    • Instead, price movement is framed as controlled by a small group that operates as the true market driver.

  • The mechanism is described as an “interbank price delivery algorithm.”

    • Price is presented as following a repeating pattern with predictable stages.
    • Once the “algorithm” is understood, you can anticipate what price is likely to do next.

  • Markets are depicted as systematically moving through a limited sequence of states.

    • Core claim: price does not alternate freely between consolidation, reversal, and retracement.

    • Instead, it follows a repeating structure:

      • Consolidation → Expansion → (Retracement or Reversal) → Expansion/Consolidation → repeat

  • Time-of-day structure matters (day range model).

    • The pattern is tied to market sessions (Asia, London open, New York time windows) and recurring “manipulation,” stop-runs, liquidity injections, and reversals.

  • Method is taught as applied intraday study (for faster feedback).

    • Learning is accelerated by studying intraday behavior because it compresses many days of “structure” into fewer sessions.
    • This is framed as preparation for later longer-term context.

  • Mindset / behavior training is part of the approach.

    • Profitability is partly about suppressing fear/greed and practicing patience and consistency.
    • The speaker discourages over-sharing (e.g., “don’t make this common knowledge,” “don’t market a website”) and suggests keeping mentorship content within a limited circle.

Method / “Algorithm” Described (Detailed Instructions)

1) Trade Setup Foundation (from earlier mention)

Use a trade setup characterized by:

  • Context
  • Framework

Tie these to institutional concepts / order flow, including:

  • Expansion / Retracement / Reversal / Consolidation
  • Institutional/liquidity ideas (examples listed by the speaker):
    • Order blocks
    • Fair value gaps
    • Liquidity voids / liquidity pools
    • Stops / stop runs
    • Equilibrium

2) The “Consolidation → Expansion” Rule Set (core structural constraint)

Apply this constraint when analyzing price delivery:

  • Price always transitions:

    • Consolidation → Expansion

  • After expansion, price can only do one of two things:

    • Retrace back into prior levels (e.g., toward where the expansion started / an order block)

    • Reverse (flip direction after expansion)

The speaker asserts prohibited patterns:

  • No “Consolidation → Retracement” directly
  • No “Consolidation → Reversal” directly
  • Instead, the path must include Expansion

3) Daily Range “Repeating Format” (time-of-day model)

Use this as a template for how price behaves across a day:

  1. Start with consolidation

    • “Asian range” / Asian consolidation
    • Consolidation is linked to orders building.

  2. Manipulation / first directional push (expansion)

    • Triggered around a news driver or shortly before.
    • Described as a “run on stops” and a “London swing.”
    • Often framed as forming a higher low of the day in the buy-day scenario.

  3. Expansion leg(s)

    • After the higher low forms, price expands into the next window (e.g., toward early New York time).

    • Another expansion can occur after further consolidation.

  4. New York consolidation

    • A small consolidation during the New York session time window.

  5. Retracement window

    • Between 8:00 and 8:30 (New York time):
      • Price retraces.

  6. New York reversal or another expansion

    • After the retracement window:
      • Price either reverses in the New York session, or
      • continues via another expansion move.

  7. London close reversal / late-day direction management

    • Price is expected to move toward 10:00 or 11:00 (New York time) where there is another reversal condition tied to “London close.”

  8. End with consolidation

    • The day ends in consolidation (“ending true day”).

4) Internal Logic for “Directional Premise”

  1. Identify the higher-timeframe directional premise.
  2. Then use the repeating delivery algorithm to anticipate:
    • where price is likely to expand next,
    • whether it is likely to retrace into a prior zone or reverse out of it.

5) How This Should Improve Trading Decisions

When the structure is understood, the speaker claims:

  • It becomes easier to predict what price will do next based on the market’s current stage in the cycle.
  • This should enable consistent opportunities (the speaker cites lessons hitting targets and producing large pip moves).

Additional Concepts Emphasized

  • Liquidity Provider Framing

    • “Bank/smart money” are framed as the parties providing liquidity and driving price.
    • Retail is positioned as the “eaten meat” side of a predator/prey analogy (“lamb or lion”).

  • “AI / computer program” claim

    • Price delivery is described as automated rather than human-driven in the way retail imagines.
    • The market is presented as being produced by an algorithm that reacts to human behavior (fear/greed).

  • Non-disclosure / limited distribution

    • The speaker requests mentorship content not be broadly shared online.
    • They also mention a shift where free tutorials end and later paid instruction continues.

Speakers / Sources Featured

  • Primary speaker: Unnamed mentor/instructor

    • Talks directly to “you folks,” presenting mentorship and claiming prior trading/teaching experience (including “in this mentorship” and “in the first video”).
    • No identifiable name is given.

  • Other referenced parties (not direct speakers):

    • Market makers
    • Banks / interbank feed
    • “Smart money” traders
    • Retail traders / gurus / teachers
    • Social media communities (e.g., Twitter/Instagram/America Online chat room)
    • No named co-speakers are provided.

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