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January 9, 2020 update - the mentorship is now closed to new students and his twitter account is closed. He occasionally posts updates on his youtube community channel.
The Inner Circle Trader is a trader with many years of experience who teaches "Price Action" style of trading. He also provides a years mentorship program for those who want to study how price action works. He does NOT teach people how to trade, but I hear rumours that some people have applied his training to the markets where they have lost or won money as everyone does in the market over time.
Aside from his private mentorship, he has posted a number of public videos where he discusses his studies on youtube.
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A Note to ICT
ICT, if there is any content on this site you want removed for whatever reason, just drop me a line and tell me what you want gone and I shall do so.
Warning
Regarding the Transcriptions
Most of the videos have transcription created using otter.ai. While it is good, it is not perfect. It's useful for searching, but not so useful if you are reading it only. You are best off listening to the original audio, so you can know what was correctly said, rather than what otter.ai thinks the speaker said.
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The original 115 Lessons delivered over a year where ICT breaks down and introduces the terms to describe his model of how trading works. From these building blocks, a diligent student can develop his own trading model.
How to use the New York Midnight, 8:30 am Opening price. How to deal with missing setups or price moves. Intermarket Relationships & Intermarket Analysis.
Let's study FOMC & how you can use a Mentorship Model "target" as an entry for HTF setups. Take notes... and refer to the Community Post I made May 04, 2022.
Example Of Tape Reading Practice - I use counter trend bias in this exercise and illustrate how Institutional Order Flow, as I teach it, aids in reading the Tape. Study how Liquidity is used for Algorithmic Price Delivery in this case study.
Tonight I cover when trades can be taken in the lunch hour, versus when it shouldn't be. When to abandon your Bias & what determines why? Why the 5 minute chart was used for entry and more on my Power Of 3 concept.
ICT has proven to be prolific producer of educational videos over the years. From his early days over at babypips, to his own site, his private mentorship, youtube, and who knows where else, quite a few videos were made.
Sadly, a lot of these videos have disappeared from the public internet, or are now locked into people's private collections if they were smart enough to archive them. This next section are some of lessons I was able to find after a fair bit of digging. In some cases I've only found references to the name but not the actual videos themselves. Maybe they'll turn up later.
For the diligent student of ICT's works, these videos are some of the earliest teachings I've found and are mostly superceeded by the 2016 mentorship and later lessons. Still, they are interesting to see how ICT's teaching ideas developed over the years.
Market Maker Series (2014)
I believe these videos were pulled once the mentorship was created, but it looks like a lot of these concepts are covered in the current Market Maker Primer Course and in his new Youtube Series. I'm keeping the list for reference purposes as I've been told that this series holds a lot of useful information. The original names were found in a PDF.
ICT is rarely short on words in his lessons. This lesson is the shortest, most succinct lesson I've ever seen him do. Even so, you may have to watch it several times to catch the subtleties.
silent, except for the music. The Enigma TNG - Close My Eyes. ICT has excellent tastes in music. Worth watching for how ICT analyzes the market, even in hindsight.