Market structure & SMC/ICT

ICT (Inner Circle Trader)

Also known as: Inner Circle Trader, ICT concepts

ICT refers to the Inner Circle Trader methodology, a set of concepts for trading institutional order flow, liquidity and market structure.

ICT popularised terms like fair value gaps, order blocks, liquidity pools, judas swings and the optimal trade entry. It is closely related to Smart Money Concepts. Algovex implements many ICT concepts as stateful detection nodes you can backtest.

Related terms

Smart Money Concepts (SMC)Fair value gap (FVG)Order blockLiquidity

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