Order Block ICT Trading Strategy

Learn about the Order Block ICT Trading Strategy, a popular methodology for identifying high-probability trade setups based on institutional order flow. Underst

Published · Updated · Methodology: ICT

Part of: Order Blocks

  • Methodology: ICT
  • Content type: educational

Source video

Decoded from: Order Block ICT Trading Strategy: Find & Trade the BEST Order Blocks| Step By Step Explained by Bear to Billionaire📈 — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Introduction to Order Blocks

Strategy overview

In ICT terms, an order block is the last opposing candle before a decisive move away from a level — the footprint of where that move began, marked so it can be watched if price returns. What separates this entry from the rest of the order block library is the label it keeps: ICT, rather than the broader "smart money concepts" branding under which most order block tutorials now circulate. That distinction is not cosmetic. The term reached retail charts through Inner Circle Trader material, where the zone is inseparable from the displacement that created it and from the market-structure sequence around it; the further the idea travels from that origin, the closer it drifts to being an ordinary supply-and-demand rectangle with a newer name.

The source video, "Order Block ICT Trading Strategy: Find & Trade the BEST Order Blocks| Step By Step Explained" from Bear to Billionaire📈, puts two different problems in a single title. Finding is a charting exercise — deciding which candle, on which leg, at which degree of trend. Trading it is a risk exercise, and the two rarely share the same failure modes. Beyond that promise, the entry declares very little: no market, no timeframe, no session, and a published chapter list that stops at its first line, "0:00 — Introduction to Order Blocks", so how the material is divided after the opening is not signposted from the outside.

No structured rule set was extracted from this source, so this page carries no decoded breakdown of entries, stops or targets. Read it instead as an orientation point for the ICT reading of order blocks and as a pointer back to the original video — and note that the superlative in the title is the video's own framing, not a ranking verified here. Whatever definition of a valid order block you take from it, the useful next step is the same as with any zone-based method: write the criterion down precisely enough that two people would mark the same candle, then test it on historical data before risking capital.

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Frequently asked questions

What is an order block in ICT trading?

In ICT terminology, an order block is the last opposing candle — or small cluster of candles — before a strong displacement move away from a level. The area is marked on the chart and treated as a reference if price later returns to it, with the displacement and the surrounding market structure forming part of what qualifies it.

Is an ICT order block the same thing as a supply and demand zone?

They overlap but are not identical. Supply and demand zones are usually drawn from a consolidation that precedes a move, with no further requirement. The ICT reading ties the zone to the displacement that left it and to the imbalance created by that move, which is why the same chart can produce a different set of marked areas depending on which vocabulary you are using.

What market and timeframe does this version use?

Neither is declared for this entry — no instrument, timeframe or session is stated, and the only published chapter marker is the introduction. Order block logic is applied across timeframes, but the level you choose changes everything downstream: how many zones appear, how long a trade is held, and how much of the zone's width your stop has to absorb.

Does this page include the video's step-by-step rules?

No. No structured rules were extracted from this source, so this page stays at the level of concept and context. Strategy Decoder only publishes a decoded breakdown when the source material is explicit enough to support one; other order block entries in the catalog do include extracted structure.

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