The ICT Silver Bullet
The Silver Bullet is ICT's answer to overtrading: a setup you are only allowed to take inside three one-hour windows a day. Michael Huddleston built it as a scalp with a strict recipe, a sweep of liquidity, a shift in structure, and the first fair-value gap that follows, taken only in that hour. It is the most replicated setup in the ICT world, and the time box is what makes it work.
The Silver Bullet is a time-boxed liquidity-sweep entry, valid only inside three New York windows: the London Silver Bullet from 3 to 4am, the AM Silver Bullet from 10 to 11am (the most traded), and the PM Silver Bullet from 2 to 3pm. Inside the window the sequence is fixed: price sweeps a recent high or low to run the stops, then shifts structure back the other way, leaving a fair-value gap on the displacement. You enter on the retrace into that first gap, stop beyond the candle that made it, and target the opposing liquidity. If the sweep, shift and gap do not line up inside the hour, there is no trade, and walking away is the rule, not a miss.
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The Silver Bullet is a scalp on a strict clock. On a dead, rangebound session the sweep-shift-gap sequence never forms inside the hour, and the correct play is no trade at all. Forcing a setup because the window is open, when the liquidity and structure are not there, is how the model gets misused.
Even a clean sequence can sweep, shift, fill your gap and roll over again. The stop beyond the gap candle caps it, and the one-hour frame keeps a losing scalp from becoming a held loser. It is a discretionary read: what counts as a valid sweep or shift is a judgment call, so the same window can be a trade for one trader and a pass for another.
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