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ICT YT - 2025-06-06 - 2025 Storytellers Series - NQ Futures 06-05-2025

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1 00:00:00 --> 00:00:22 ICT: Uh. Folks, welcome back. All right, so we're going to be looking at the
2 00:00:22 --> 00:00:31 storyteller series for 2025 for Nasdaq futures contract for June delivery
3 00:00:31 --> 00:00:40 contract, month, June 5. 2025 All right, let's get right into it here. Obviously,
4 00:00:40 --> 00:00:47 I'll counsel you to look at yesterday's June 4, 2025, storytellers edition on
5 00:00:47 --> 00:00:54 this YouTube channel. And you'll see the levels I have here, the smaller ones,
6 00:00:54 --> 00:00:57 the things I'm going to draw your attention to here will be obviously
7 00:00:57 --> 00:01:03 meant as we go through this short, little review and video, but all these
8 00:01:03 --> 00:01:07 details over here, this is all stuff that was included in yesterday's
9 00:01:07 --> 00:01:13 discussion. And then on the daily chart, we were looking at an old inefficiency,
10 00:01:13 --> 00:01:19 or daily Sibi, and I told you I had it graded, where the upper level, upper
11 00:01:19 --> 00:01:24 quadrant, consequent encroachment lower quadrant and the low of that daily City,
12 00:01:25 --> 00:01:33 one of the things that Non Farm Payroll week really gives us a challenge with
13 00:01:33 --> 00:01:38 sometimes is leading up to the actual event on Friday morning at 830 Eastern
14 00:01:38 --> 00:01:47 Time, where they release the employment data. One of the major reasons why I
15 00:01:47 --> 00:01:53 tell students to try to avoid trading this particular week after Wednesday
16 00:01:53 --> 00:01:58 london session, going into Wednesday New York session, you want to be basically
17 00:01:58 --> 00:02:03 done all of your trading last 7am Eastern Time in my in my opinion, for a
18 00:02:03 --> 00:02:06 new trader, it's going to be advantageous for you if you did
19 00:02:06 --> 00:02:11 something like that. But a lot of you don't want to listen, and you want to
20 00:02:11 --> 00:02:15 just go in here and discover for yourself that fafo really is something
21 00:02:15 --> 00:02:22 that you should have been more aware of. So because it can be consolidated,
22 00:02:22 --> 00:02:26 because it can be range bound when, whenever we have a higher Time Frame
23 00:02:26 --> 00:02:30 inefficiency, it's most likely going to use that higher Time Frame inefficiency
24 00:02:32 --> 00:02:37 as the easiest form of real listen to this. Listen to this. Okay, real support
25 00:02:37 --> 00:02:42 and resistance, not some contrived idea that, well, this is the right high, or
26 00:02:42 --> 00:02:46 this is the right low, because, you know, I just feel like it's the right
27 00:02:46 --> 00:02:51 one to draw from. No Okay, having a level of understanding where
28 00:02:51 --> 00:02:57 inefficiencies are is hugely advantageous. And I'm going to show you
29 00:02:57 --> 00:03:01 today. You know what that means. I'm only going to go right into the one
30 00:03:01 --> 00:03:05 minute chart, as you see here, because all the detail is in the one minute
31 00:03:05 --> 00:03:11 chart. I don't need to go in any other time frame. I did not do any new week
32 00:03:11 --> 00:03:16 opening gap utilization today. I did not use any opening range gaps. I did not
33 00:03:16 --> 00:03:22 use any first presented fair value gap. I did not use any of those things today.
34 00:03:22 --> 00:03:27 Not one thing like that at all. I just simply used the inefficiencies that were
35 00:03:27 --> 00:03:31 mentioned yesterday and the one that's on the daily chart, okay? And you can
36 00:03:31 --> 00:03:36 see these levels here, daily City High, consequence, encouragement and this
37 00:03:36 --> 00:03:39 daily city low. This line here is just the sell side liquidity pool. Before I
38 00:03:39 --> 00:03:46 move this slide. Rewind it again, you'll see it inefficiency from yesterday on
39 00:03:46 --> 00:03:50 Wednesday, and the same thing here. Okay, so these are previous days in
40 00:03:51 --> 00:03:55 inefficiencies. So if we're going to sell off and go outside the low of the
41 00:03:55 --> 00:04:00 daily city, then we have to have an understanding where it could go. And the
42 00:04:00 --> 00:04:05 easiest one is use what was day before. Very simple. It's not complicated, is
43 00:04:06 --> 00:04:11 it? So I want you to take a look at what I did on x this morning, I was trading
44 00:04:11 --> 00:04:18 london session, and I shorted near the high of the London session and banked on
45 00:04:19 --> 00:04:25 a obvious draw on liquidity. I could have held for lower but I was content
46 00:04:25 --> 00:04:31 with what I showed and I tried to get some sleep, but I got an unction that I
47 00:04:31 --> 00:04:36 just wanted to just really tear it up today so I was not able to actually go
48 00:04:36 --> 00:04:42 to sleep. I formulated a game plan on how I was going to use the daily Sibi
49 00:04:42 --> 00:04:49 here. So when we had 830 employment data, not non, not Non Farm Payroll, but
50 00:04:49 --> 00:04:53 it used look at the bodies it's using the lower quadrant of that daily city.
51 00:04:54 --> 00:05:00 And then it rallied up, came right back down in inversion. Fair Value got. It
52 00:05:00 --> 00:05:06 hits it here, rallies up, takes the daily City High out the body, stay
53 00:05:06 --> 00:05:10 inside of it, meaning what it's probably going to go up there one more time. Why?
54 00:05:10 --> 00:05:14 Because we're already long term bullish anyway. So it didn't leave a close or
55 00:05:14 --> 00:05:19 any body portion up there. It just wicked up there. And then this is bait.
56 00:05:20 --> 00:05:25 Look for shorts, and retail is going to want to short and hold it forever. Now I
57 00:05:25 --> 00:05:30 can go in there and I'll wait for an order block up close candle. I'm giving
58 00:05:30 --> 00:05:35 you this rough idea here because I want you to go into your one minute chart and
59 00:05:35 --> 00:05:38 flesh it out. But this up close candle here is a bare shorter block, and when
60 00:05:38 --> 00:05:43 it went up in that that's a sell a short and aiming for the liquidity wrestling
61 00:05:43 --> 00:05:49 below here. And then the market went back and forth in here. I tried to see
62 00:05:50 --> 00:05:56 what type of a long that could be formed in here. And then it came back down
63 00:05:56 --> 00:06:01 against me and stopped me out a little bit premature before the run up in here,
64 00:06:02 --> 00:06:07 building another interest in going along to take out this high. You can see how
65 00:06:07 --> 00:06:14 they use the daily Sibi, consequent encroachment consolidated around the
66 00:06:14 --> 00:06:21 upper quadrant back into a bullish fair value gap. Look at the bodies here. Then
67 00:06:21 --> 00:06:26 it rallies up into daily City High, and then rips through it. And it spent a
68 00:06:26 --> 00:06:30 whole lot of time in here. And this is characteristic of Non Farm Payroll week
69 00:06:30 --> 00:06:37 on Wednesdays and Thursdays. It can be very just annoying. Okay, that's really
70 00:06:37 --> 00:06:44 the best word I can use for it, looking to get short in here and trying to
71 00:06:44 --> 00:06:49 actually get the actual high or the swing high in here. It can be
72 00:06:49 --> 00:06:55 frustrating, and it can force you out of the trade or stop you out. And then
73 00:06:55 --> 00:06:58 you'd have to look for another, another short entry if you're going to be trying
74 00:06:58 --> 00:07:02 to trade the extreme outside of daily city. Now you may be asking, why would
75 00:07:02 --> 00:07:05 you want to do that? If you're primarily bullish? Because we're leaving this
76 00:07:05 --> 00:07:10 inefficiency on a day before Non Farm Payroll. So the real event is tomorrow.
77 00:07:11 --> 00:07:15 So this is just them setting the stage and getting people trapped, buying a
78 00:07:15 --> 00:07:20 breakout above here. That's what this is. Okay? So fading that idea and an
79 00:07:20 --> 00:07:24 inversion fair value gap here, building a short into that, then a sell side
80 00:07:24 --> 00:07:28 imbalance, buy side, efficiency standard, classic, ICT, bearish fair
81 00:07:28 --> 00:07:32 value gap trades up into that with a small little rally above that, stop
82 00:07:32 --> 00:07:39 hunt, breaks lower, comes back up in easy fair value gap to sell Short in
83 00:07:39 --> 00:07:46 there, rips lower. Below these relative equal lows down to daily city low, so it
84 00:07:46 --> 00:07:52 rallies back up into half of daily city. So consequent encroachment, building in
85 00:07:52 --> 00:07:56 shorts, building in shorts, building in shorts, breaks lower fair value gap,
86 00:07:56 --> 00:08:01 fair value gap in there as well, breaks lower fair value gap there, rips lower,
87 00:08:01 --> 00:08:07 takes out the sell side there, and below the previous days relative equal lows.
88 00:08:07 --> 00:08:12 And again, look at your when Wednesday's trading in the slide before this one
89 00:08:12 --> 00:08:16 here, you'll see that that is the obvious sell side liquidity pool. It was
90 00:08:16 --> 00:08:19 easy. And then below that was the inefficiency I showed you yesterday.
91 00:08:20 --> 00:08:27 Then rallies back up to the lower quadrant. Okay, look at the utilization
92 00:08:27 --> 00:08:34 of these levels. Pounds encroachment. Lower quadrant breaks below it comes
93 00:08:34 --> 00:08:39 back up in here, another shorting opportunity there, breaks aggressively
94 00:08:39 --> 00:08:44 lower down into inefficiencies from Wednesday, then rallies back up in and
95 00:08:44 --> 00:08:48 my interest element at that time was abated, and I wasn't no longer
96 00:08:48 --> 00:08:51 interested, but it did offer new opportunities back inside the
97 00:08:51 --> 00:08:58 inefficiency here, trades up into it. There. There breaks lower, rallies back
98 00:08:58 --> 00:09:05 up into it, trades below it. Upper quadrant breaks lower, consequent
99 00:09:05 --> 00:09:10 encroachment, and then trades lower here and leaves these relative equal lows and
100 00:09:10 --> 00:09:14 at the close of the day, and then they open it way down here, and then right
101 00:09:14 --> 00:09:19 back up to the low the inefficiency here and closing in that new day, opening
102 00:09:19 --> 00:09:27 gap. So I want you to study this. Okay, and I shared a chart with price swings
103 00:09:27 --> 00:09:35 annotated where buying and selling utilizing the things I teach, how that
104 00:09:35 --> 00:09:41 was not requiring all the things that I talked about. It was just simply one
105 00:09:41 --> 00:09:49 thing, the daily Sibi, the daily Sibi within the context of a week or
106 00:09:49 --> 00:09:54 condition that is prone to be consolidating you.
107 00:10:00 --> 00:10:06 So this one, admittedly, was meant to get your gears turning and get you into
108 00:10:06 --> 00:10:10 your own charts. You don't need every moving part, every little tinker toy
109 00:10:10 --> 00:10:14 that I've ever introduced, knowing what you're looking for in the climate or the
110 00:10:14 --> 00:10:19 market structure based on the economic calendar, how we're going to trade. Is
111 00:10:19 --> 00:10:23 it going to be range bound. It's gonna be trending. It's gonna be reversal. All
112 00:10:23 --> 00:10:29 these ideas are the building blocks of how I started the mentorship in 2016 and
113 00:10:29 --> 00:10:35 2017 the elements of a trade setup. If you look at that video on my YouTube
114 00:10:35 --> 00:10:42 channel, it will help you understand how today was very, very easy, as long as
115 00:10:42 --> 00:10:47 we're inside that daily city. Once we leave the city, then we have to look at
116 00:10:47 --> 00:10:52 other tools and other reference points, but again, study the one minute chart
117 00:10:52 --> 00:10:56 from your own charts, and I'll touch base with you tomorrow. Lord willing.
118 00:10:57 --> 00:10:58 You.