Daily Bias, Liquidity Raid

Learn to day trade S&P and NASDAQ futures by identifying daily bias and liquidity raids. This ICT strategy focuses on entry during optimal market hours, leverag

Published · Updated · Methodology: ICT

Part of: Liquidity Sweeps & Grabs

  • Methodology: ICT
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: Not specified for analysis, but trading window 9-11 AM mentioned
  • Markets: S&P, NASDAQ

Source video

Decoded from: A+ Trade Checklist #daytrading #trading #daytrader #learntotrade #daytradingtips #stocks #forex by Casper SMC — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:18 - Daily bias concept
  • 0:32 - Optimal trading time
  • 0:39 - Liquidity raid for bullish entry

Strategy overview

In ICT terms, a liquidity raid is the move that runs through an obvious high or low to take out the resting stop orders sitting there. What makes this entry distinctive is not the raid itself but the position it occupies: in Casper SMC's "A+ Trade Checklist", the raid arrives last, at 0:39, and is explicitly framed as the trigger *for a bullish entry* — meaning direction has already been decided before the sweep is ever looked at. The video's first item, at 0:18, is daily bias.

That ordering is the whole argument. The raid is not being used to discover which way the market wants to go; it is used to confirm a direction the trader brought to the chart, which turns the sweep from a signal into a permission slip. Between the two sits a third gate at 0:32 — an optimal trading time, given as a 9–11 AM window — so a setup only earns the "A+" label when bias, clock and liquidity event all line up. Read that way, the piece is less an entry method than a grading rubric: its practical effect is to disqualify raids that occur outside the window or against the day's bias, which is a statement about selectivity rather than about how to execute.

The video is a short-form capsule, tagged across stocks and forex, and it names no analysis timeframe or tooling — the conditions are stated at the level of the trading day, not the chart setup. No rule set was extracted from this source, so this page covers the concept and how the video frames the conditions, not parameters or executable logic.

Topics

daily bias strategy · liquidity raid strategy · ict trading · ict strategy · trading strategy · day trading strategy · s&p trading strategy · nasdaq trading strategy · futures trading strategy · price action · optimal trade entry · tradingview strategy · pine script

Frequently asked questions

What is a liquidity raid in ICT trading?

A liquidity raid is a move that pushes through an obvious swing high or low where stop orders accumulate, taking out that resting liquidity. In ICT-style approaches it is often read as a deliberate sweep rather than a genuine breakout, which is why traders watch what price does immediately after the raid rather than treating the break itself as direction.

Why does daily bias come before the liquidity raid in this checklist?

Because the raid is used as confirmation, not as discovery. In this video the bias is established first and the liquidity raid is presented specifically as the entry trigger for a bullish scenario — so a sweep that runs counter to the established bias does not qualify as a setup at all.

What is the 9–11 AM trading window mentioned in the video?

It is presented as the optimal trading time within the checklist — the window in which a qualifying setup is expected to appear. The video states the hours without specifying a timezone, and treats the window as a filter: liquidity events outside it are not counted toward the setup.

Does this strategy specify a chart timeframe or indicators?

No. The source names no analysis timeframe and uses no indicators; its conditions are defined at the level of the trading day — bias, time window, and a liquidity event. Strategy Decoder catalogs the structure of strategies presented in video sources so you can see what a source actually specifies before testing anything on TradingView.

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