ICT Strategy

Learn an ICT trading strategy for funded traders. This strategy utilizes Inner Circle Trader concepts including Smart Money Concepts for market analysis.

Published · Updated · Methodology: ICT

Part of: ICT Concepts

  • Methodology: ICT
  • Content type: strategy

Source video

Decoded from: Funded ICT Trader’s Strategy for 2024 by Casper SMC — watch the original

Strategy overview

ICT (Inner Circle Trader) methodology reads price through liquidity — where stops sit, how price reaches for them, and what the reaction afterwards says about who is in control. This entry decodes a video framed around a specific claim: that this is what a funded trader was running going into 2024.

The framing is the point. "Funded ICT Trader's Strategy for 2024" from Casper SMC is a year-anchored account of one trader's working approach, which is a different kind of source than a concept explainer. It carries the constraints a funded account imposes — daily loss limits, drawdown ceilings, consistency rules — and those constraints tend to shape which ICT expressions a trader actually keeps. A prop-firm environment rewards setups that are selective and quick to invalidate over ones that require sitting through wide adverse excursions, and that filter usually narrows a broad methodology down to a small repeatable subset.

A year label also raises a fair question for anyone reading this later: how much of the approach was tied to 2024's conditions, and how much is structural. ICT's core ideas are not calendar-dependent, but the specific pairs, sessions and volatility a trader built around in a given year can be. This page covers the video and its methodology context; no rule set was extracted from this source, so treat the concept material below as orientation, and the video itself as the primary reference for how the trader described their approach.

Topics

ict trading strategy · ict strategy · smart money concepts · smc strategy · trading strategy · pine script · tradingview strategy · funded trader strategy · price action · forex strategy · futures trading strategy

Frequently asked questions

What does "funded ICT trader" mean?

A funded trader operates a prop-firm account rather than only their own capital, under rules like a maximum daily loss, an overall drawdown limit and minimum trading days. "Funded ICT trader" simply means someone applying ICT liquidity and market-structure concepts inside those constraints.

Do prop-firm rules change how ICT concepts are traded?

They change the selection more than the concepts. Fixed daily loss and drawdown limits push traders toward setups with clearly defined invalidation and away from wide-stop or hold-through-noise expressions, so the methodology usually gets narrowed to whatever survives that risk envelope.

Is a strategy labelled "for 2024" still relevant?

The underlying ICT ideas — liquidity sweeps, imbalances, market structure — aren't tied to a calendar year. What can date are the specifics a trader built around at the time: the instruments, sessions and volatility regime. Read the year as context for those choices, not as an expiry.

How should I approach a strategy shown in a video like this?

Treat it as a description, not a specification. Watch how the trader defines their own entries and invalidation, write those rules down explicitly, then test them on historical data for your instrument and session before committing capital.

About this strategy page

This trading strategy was decoded by Strategy Decoder's AI from a public YouTube trading video and turned into a structured, reviewable specification. In the interactive app this page shows the full entry and exit logic, risk management settings, the indicators involved with their parameters, AlgoWizard-compatible logic and a Pine Script export ready for TradingView backtesting — plus an automated backtest verdict when one has been computed for this strategy.

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