ICT Trading Strategy

Learn the core concepts of an ICT trading strategy, focusing on market movements and potential setups. This educational overview prepares traders for advanced I

Published · Updated · Methodology: ICT

Part of: ICT Concepts

  • Methodology: ICT
  • Content type: educational

Source video

Decoded from: The Only ICT Trading Strategy I'll Be Using In 2026! (80% Winrate) by Faiz SMC — watch the original

Strategy overview

ICT (Inner Circle Trader) methodology reads price through liquidity — where stop orders build up, how price is drawn toward them, and what happens once they are taken. This entry decodes "The Only ICT Trading Strategy I'll Be Using In 2026! (80% Winrate)" from the Faiz SMC channel, a video whose framing is less about surveying the ICT toolkit and more about narrowing it down: one setup, carried into a new trading year, chosen over everything else the methodology offers.

That narrowing is the interesting part. ICT is a large vocabulary — sweeps, imbalances, structure shifts, killzones — and most traders who learn it end up with more patterns than they can track. A video built around a single retained setup is effectively an argument about selection: which piece of the methodology the presenter believes survives contact with live markets, and which pieces they are willing to drop. The channel name itself points to the wider smart-money-concepts scene that ICT ideas circulate in, where this kind of consolidation is a recurring theme.

The "80% Winrate" in the title is the presenter's own claim, stated in the source video and not independently verified here — as with any headline win rate, the figures that matter are the sample size, the market and session it was measured on, and the reward-to-risk that accompanies it. This page catalogs the strategy and its source; the specific entry conditions belong to the video itself, and anyone considering the approach should test it on their own historical data before assigning it any expectation.

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Frequently asked questions

What is an ICT trading strategy?

An ICT (Inner Circle Trader) strategy trades price in terms of liquidity and market structure — identifying where resting stop orders accumulate, watching price sweep those levels, and using imbalances and structure shifts as the reference for entries and risk, typically without traditional indicators.

Why would a trader use only one ICT setup instead of several?

ICT covers a wide set of concepts, and trading all of them at once tends to produce conflicting signals and overtrading. Narrowing to a single setup makes the approach repeatable and easier to measure, at the cost of passing on days when that specific pattern does not appear.

Is the 80% win rate in the video title reliable?

It is the presenter's claim as stated in the video title, not a verified result. A win rate on its own says little without the sample size, the instrument and session tested, and the average reward-to-risk per trade — a high win rate paired with a poor risk ratio can still lose money.

How should I evaluate a strategy like this before trading it?

Define the rules precisely, backtest them on your own historical data for the market and session you actually trade, then forward-test on a demo account before risking capital. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies like this one from their video sources so you can find, compare and evaluate them.

About this strategy page

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