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Free guides for every setup.

A plain-English breakdown of every setup we track: how it works, when it holds, and when it is a coin flip. Free to read, backed by the numbers, and each one points to the indicator that trades it.

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The strategy library

Every setup, broken down.

Killzone

The ICT Silver Bullet

One hour, one trade. ICT's most-copied setup fires only inside three fixed windows a day: a liquidity sweep, a shift in structure, and the first fair-value gap it leaves. Miss the window and there is no trade, and that discipline is the whole point.

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Liquidity

PDH / PDL Liquidity Sweep

The ICT previous-day-high/low liquidity sweep: run the level, fail, reverse. Setup, entry, stop and target, backed by real Nasdaq prior-day break data.

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Imbalance

The ICT Fair Value Gap

The canonical ICT Fair Value Gap: what a 3-candle imbalance is, the retrace-and-shift entry, stop and target, and how often Nasdaq gaps actually get filled.

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Overnight

The ICT Judas Swing

The canonical ICT Judas Swing: how the London or New York open sweeps the overnight range, then reverses. Setup, entry, stop and target, backed by real Nasdaq sweep data.

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Compression

Inside Bar Breakout

How often a Nasdaq inside day breaks out of the prior range, why the upside break holds better, and how to trade the compression.

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Opening range

The ORB

How often the 30-minute opening range gives a single clean break on the Nasdaq, why most days fake both ways, and the filters that tilt the odds.

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Initial balance

The IB50

How the opening hour sets the day on NAS100, the single clean-break base rate from 1,300+ New York sessions, and the midpoint entry the IB50 system trades.

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