Estructura de Mercado, Fair Value Gaps, Order Blocks, Ciclos Diarios

ICT trading strategy combines market structure, daily cycles, Fair Value Gaps, and Order Blocks to identify precise entries on US indices and Forex, especially

Published · Updated · Methodology: ICT

Part of: Fair Value Gap (FVG)

  • Methodology: ICT
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: Diario (D), 1 hora (H1), 8 horas (8H), 30 minutos (30M), 15 minutos (15M), 10 minutos (10M), 3 minutos (3M)
  • Markets: Dow Jones (Dows), Nasdaq (NASDAQ), Índices Americanos, Forex

Indicators used

  • Estructura de Mercado
  • Fair Value Gap (FVG)
  • Order Block (OB)
  • Indicador de Ciclos Diarios (propio)

Source video

Decoded from: Así Pasé Una Prueba de Fondeo en 7 Días (Mi Estrategia Real) by Geraldin Paternostro — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:44 - Introducción a la estrategia
  • 2:00 - Paso 1: Definir objetivo y dirección
  • 4:25 - Uso de estructura de mercado para dirección
  • 5:40 - Regla para operar en máximos históricos (ATH)
  • 6:30 - Señal de posible reversión: rompimiento estructural en H1 a la baja
  • 8:40 - Paso 2: Identificar el ciclo diario
  • 9:30 - Cómo identificar ciclos diarios con velas de 8 horas
  • 11:00 - Ejemplo de Ciclo Uno (AMD)
  • 12:20 - Paso 3: Buscar zona de entrada según el ciclo
  • 13:00 - Zonas de entrada para Ciclo Uno: FVG u Order Blocks
  • 15:00 - Búsqueda de zonas en temporalidades menores (10-15 min)
  • 16:40 - Confirmaciones de entrada en 3 minutos
  • 17:20 - Modelo de entrada: invalidación de un inverso a value gap
  • 18:00 - Gestión de riesgo: 1:2 R:R

Strategy overview

"Así Pasé Una Prueba de Fondeo en 7 Días (Mi Estrategia Real)", by Geraldin Paternostro, frames its ICT toolkit around a single goal: clearing a prop-firm funding challenge under a deadline. That framing is what sets this entry apart — the fair value gap here is not presented as a standalone setup but as the entry imbalance inside a goal-driven, multi-timeframe routine built to pass a funded-account evaluation. In ICT terms, a fair value gap is the price imbalance left behind when a move happens too fast for both sides to transact, an inefficiency that price often revisits.

What organizes the video is time as much as any single indicator. Alongside market structure — used to fix the day's direction across a wide stack of timeframes, from the daily chart down to three minutes — the creator leans on a proprietary 'Daily Cycles' indicator that segments the session into cycles and signals when to start hunting for entries in specific zones. Within that structure-defined direction and cycle-defined timing, fair value gaps and order blocks supply the actual entry locations. The gap, in other words, is gated by when and where the framework says to look, not traded on sight.

The '7 days' in the title is the creator's own account of a single funded-challenge run, not a verified or repeatable result — funded-account outcomes depend on execution, risk sizing and market conditions, none of which a setup can guarantee. This page situates the fair value gap within that funded-challenge workflow and the wider ICT toolkit — market structure, order blocks and the daily-cycle timing layer — so you can see how the concept is used here rather than in isolation.

Topics

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Frequently asked questions

What role does the fair value gap play in this funded-challenge strategy?

It acts as an entry imbalance rather than a signal on its own. Market structure sets the direction and a daily-cycle timing layer decides when to look, and only then do fair value gaps — alongside order blocks — mark where an entry could form. The gap is one component of a larger multi-timeframe routine, not the whole method.

What is the 'Daily Cycles' indicator mentioned in the video?

It is a proprietary tool the creator uses to divide the trading session into cycles and flag when to start looking for entries in certain zones. It is specific to the video's author and shown visually rather than through exposed settings, so it should be understood as that creator's own timing framework.

Does this strategy guarantee passing a prop-firm challenge in 7 days?

No. The seven-day figure comes from the video title and reflects the creator's personal experience, not a guaranteed or independently verified outcome. Passing a funded-account evaluation depends on risk management, execution and market conditions.

How can I study a multi-timeframe ICT strategy like this one?

Start from the base concepts — market structure, fair value gaps and order blocks — and study how they combine across timeframes before risking capital, ideally testing variations on historical data. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies like this from their source videos so you can study the concept behind them and test ideas on TradingView.

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