ICT Hidden Order Block, FVG

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Published · Updated · Methodology: ICT

Part of: Fair Value Gap (FVG)

  • Methodology: ICT
  • Content type: strategy

Indicators used

  • Order Block
  • Fair Value Gap (FVG)

Source video

Decoded from: ICT Hidden Order Block Trading Strategy (FVG Secret) by Mulham Trading — watch the original

Strategy overview

A fair value gap is the imbalance a fast, one-sided move leaves behind when price travels too quickly for both sides to transact at every level. What makes this entry from Mulham Trading distinct is that the gap is not the headline: the title puts "Hidden Order Block" first and files the FVG as a parenthetical, which reverses the usual billing and suggests the gap is doing locating work rather than serving as the zone you act on.

The qualifier that carries the idea is "hidden." An order block is normally identified by eye — the candle or cluster a displacement originated from, marked directly on the chart. Calling one hidden implies a distinction between the blocks that are obvious to anyone drawing boxes and one that is not visible from candle structure alone, and therefore needs a second reference to be found at all. That is the natural role for the fair value gap here: the two are products of the same displacement, so an imbalance left in the open is a pointer back toward the origin that produced it. Read that way, the pairing is a sequence rather than a confluence — one element finds the zone, the other is the zone.

What the source does not commit to is as notable as what it does. No timeframe, instrument, or session window appears in the entry, so the concept is presented without the usual scaffolding that turns an ICT idea into a schedule. The "Secret" in the title is promotional packaging and is repeated here only as the video's own wording. No rule set was extracted from this video, so this page stays at the level of the concept and how the two components relate — it does not reconstruct entries, invalidation, or targets.

Topics

ict trading · ict strategy · order block strategy · fvg strategy · fair value gap · hidden order block · trading strategy · price action · smart money concepts · swing trading

Frequently asked questions

What is a "hidden" order block?

It is not standardized ICT vocabulary with one fixed definition. The wording points to an order block that is not obvious from candle structure alone — one you would not mark by simply scanning the chart — which is why a separate reference such as a fair value gap is used to locate it. The precise definition belongs to the source video.

How are order blocks and fair value gaps related?

They are two traces of the same event. When price displaces sharply away from a level, the candles it moves through leave an unfilled imbalance — the fair value gap — while the area the move originated from is what gets marked as the order block. Because they come from one move, the gap sits downstream of the block that produced it.

What timeframe or market does this version use?

None is specified. The entry names no timeframe, no instrument, and no session anchor, so the idea is described as instrument-agnostic rather than tied to a particular chart or trading window.

Where do I start if I want to work with these concepts?

Learn to identify the displacement move first, since both the gap and the block are read off it — then test any interpretation on historical data before risking capital. Strategy Decoder catalogs how video sources present concepts like this so you can compare approaches and evaluate them on TradingView.

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