Archived — below our codifiability bar

ICT Strategy

Learn about the ICT strategy and how it's used with prop firm accounts for Futures and Forex trading. This guide covers leveraging capital without personal risk

Published · Archived · Methodology: ICT

  • Algo score: 70%
  • Discretionary score: 55%

This strategy was decoded from a public trading video but did not clear Strategy Decoder's codifiability bar: the extraction could not pin the rules down precisely enough to be turned into a reviewable specification. It is kept here as a reference post-mortem rather than as a strategy you can trade or backtest.

Part of: ICT Concepts

  • Methodology: ICT
  • Content type: educational
  • Markets: Futures, Forex

Indicators mentioned

  • ICT Strategy

Why this strategy was archived

ICT — the Inner Circle Trader framework — is an umbrella methodology rather than a single setup: a vocabulary for reading institutional order flow through market structure, liquidity pools, imbalances and session timing. Traders apply it across futures and forex, the two markets this entry is tagged to, and its appeal is that it tries to explain *why* price turns rather than simply flagging *when*.

**Why this entry is archived.** Our extraction scored this video below the codifiability bar. The methodology and the markets came through clearly, but the operational layer did not: no timeframe was captured, and what our extractor recorded on the indicator side was the framework's own name rather than a set of concrete, testable components. The format here is short-form, which compresses a framework that normally takes several sessions to lay out end to end — an A-Z overview communicates the shape of an approach, not the thresholds a backtest needs. Entry trigger, confirmation, invalidation and target are referenced as parts of a process but not pinned down precisely enough to code without guesswork, and an entry we cannot code faithfully does not belong in the active catalog.

**What it still offers.** As orientation, it does a real job: it names the moving parts of an ICT session in the order a practitioner actually thinks about them, which is genuinely useful if you are new to the vocabulary and trying to work out what the framework is claiming before you commit study time to it. Treat it as a map rather than a manual — and see the ICT and Smart Money Concepts hubs, plus the active catalog, for entries where the full rule set was successfully extracted.

Source video

Decoded from: A-Z Trading Strategy 🎯 #trading #fundedtrader #ict #howtotrade #wifimoney #entrepreneur #tradesetup by Casper SMC — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Introduction to prop firms
  • 0:18 - Step one: Watch simplest ICT strategy
  • 0:28 - Step two: Choose a prop firm
  • 0:36 - Step three: Only take trades that line up exactly with the strategy

Frequently asked questions

Why is this ICT strategy entry archived?

Our extraction identified the methodology and the markets it is applied to, but not a complete rule set — no timeframes, and no objective entry, confirmation or exit conditions specific enough to automate. That scored below the codifiability bar we require for the active catalog.

What is the ICT methodology?

ICT (Inner Circle Trader) is a framework for reading price through the lens of institutional order flow — market structure, liquidity, imbalances and session timing — rather than through conventional indicators. It is a way of interpreting the chart, which is part of why individual ICT videos vary so much in how mechanically they can be specified.

Is the video still worth watching?

As an overview, yes. It sketches how an ICT session is framed from start to finish, which is a reasonable orientation to the vocabulary before you go deeper into longer-form material.

Where can I find codifiable ICT strategies on Strategy Decoder?

The ICT and Smart Money Concepts hubs list decoded entries where complete entry, exit and risk rules were extracted, alongside the rest of the active catalog.

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