Prop firm trading strategies

📊 ICT Order Block Strategy An order block is commonly identified as the candle before a strong directional move that breaks meaningful market structure. Bullish setup: Price trades into a relevant discount area. A bull…

🔥 ICT Fair Value Gap Strategy A Fair Value Gap is a three-candle price imbalance. Bullish FVG:The first candle's high is below the third candle's low. Bearish FVG:The first candle's low is above the third candle's high…

Hello traders! I mainly focus on Gold (XAUUSD). I use market structure, liquidity and Fair Value Gaps (FVG) to find trading opportunities. I would like to know which trading strategy works best for you and why. Let's sh…

Patience after a missed move. When price runs without me, I want to chase it. I've learned that chasing means worse entry, wider stop, and lower reward. My fix is a rule: if I miss the entry, I wait for a pullback or sk…

Assess relationships between markets, such as gold and the US dollar or equity futures and bond yields, to develop a directional bias. Best for: Futures, macro trading

Trade the relative price spread between historically related assets when it deviates from a modeled relationship. Best for: Quantitative trading

Use an ATR-based channel around an exponential moving average to assess extensions, pullbacks, or breakouts. Best for: Systematic intraday trading

Identify a clearly defined trading range and buy near its lower boundary or sell near its upper boundary with confirmation. Best for: Sideways markets

Trade reactions around the bands in suitable ranging conditions, or use band expansion to monitor volatility breakouts. Best for: Range and volatility trading

Look for unusually extended prices to return toward a statistical mean or reference level when market conditions support reversion. Best for: Range-bound markets

Enter on a break of a recent high or low defined by a lookback window; often paired with a trailing exit. Best for: Trend following, systematic trading

Use the Relative Strength Index for momentum, divergence, or overbought/oversold analysis. Strong trends can remain overbought or oversold. Best for: Range and trend analysis

Use the Average Directional Index to assess whether a market has meaningful trend strength, alongside a directional signal. Best for: Trend-following systems

Trade a pullback toward a chosen exponential moving average while the broader trend remains intact. Best for: Intraday, swing trading

Use a faster and a slower moving average; a crossover can signal a possible trend change. Best for: Trend-following systems

Anchor VWAP to a significant event, swing high/low, or session turning point and watch how price reacts to it. Best for: Futures, stocks, swing trading

Use overnight session extremes as reference levels for moves during the regular US trading session. Best for: Index futures, gold futures

Use Volume Weighted Average Price as an intraday reference for trend direction, pullbacks, or mean reversion. Best for: Futures, stocks

Mark the high and low of the first 5, 15, or 30 minutes and trade a confirmed break of that range. Best for: ES, NQ, stocks

Look for a pullback into a defined Fibonacci retracement zone, commonly around 62%–79%, aligned with a directional bias. Best for: Intraday, swing trading

Enter when price breaks an important range, trendline, or support/resistance level, ideally with strong volume or momentum. Best for: Day trading, swing trading

Buy near a well-tested support level or sell near resistance, using confirmation and predefined risk. Best for: All trading styles

Identify higher highs and higher lows in an uptrend, or lower highs and lower lows in a downtrend. Trade in the direction of the prevailing structure. Best for: Day trading, swing trading

Smart Money Concepts traders focus on liquidity, order blocks, and market structure. Traditional technical traders may rely on support, resistance, trendlines, and indicators. Both approaches require testing and discipl…

Do liquidity sweeps, order blocks, and fair value gaps give traders a real edge? Which ICT/SMC setup works best for you? 👇