r/ICTMentorship

i need someone to guide me through this journey im 19 pls anyone help me

Hello guys, I trade 30 minutes OB with moving averages the strategy is profitable, I am just curious if anyone also trades ICT concepts with indicators

Checking to see if there’s anyone else working on trading the London silver bullet/killzone and wanted to hang out during it.

I feel like most trading Discords are either completely dead or just signal rooms.
I’m curious how many people here would actually want a smaller community of traders who are genuinely trying to get profitable and improve together.

If that’s something you’d be interested in, let me know.

I've been trading Forex for about **5 years**. The first 2 years I mostly traded signals/copied others. For the last 3 years, I've focused heavily on **ICT/SMC**, starting with studying ICT directly.

I've watched countless ICT videos, backtested extensively, and have a specific entry model based on liquidity sweeps, displacement, 15m CISD, session/1H/daily highs and lows, etc.

My biggest problem is **DAILY BIAS**. Since ICT is discretionary, I often get the bias wrong, even during backtesting. I understand the concepts, but I still can't consistently turn them into profitable decisions.

Seeing people online claiming payouts after 6–12 months makes me wonder what I'm doing wrong. I've also joined a well-known ICT Discord where the trader had multiple payouts, but during the 2 months I followed him, he had no profitable month. His journal also shows only a few profitable months since 2025. It made me realize that social media results don't necessarily tell the whole story.

So I'm looking for advice from people who **actually withdraw consistently from the market**, not another ICT theory lesson.

If you've been in a similar situation:

* How did you solve your daily bias problem? * Did you make your strategy improve your discretion? * How did you know your strategy actually had an edge? * If you were 5 years in and still not profitable, what would you change? * Would you simplify ICT, continue with it, or completely start over?

**What was the one thing that finally made you profitable?**

I'm genuinely looking for honest advice from experienced, consistently profitable traders. Please don't tell me to watch more ICT videos—I think I've watched enough.

Hello i Search trader to trade together live in discord We will be Accountability Partner ans growing together in trading , only serious people pls no kids

I used to think that knowing the direction of the market was all that mattered.. That was not the case. I had some losses on days when I was right about the direction. I still should not have made a trade.

One thing that helped me avoid a lot of trades was to have a rule: if the price does not move past the true open at the start of the day then I do not trade. This rule helped me avoid 70 percent of bad trades.

1. If the price does not move then there is no trade to be made.

This means that if the price has not passed the open by the time I am ready to trade then I just wait. The market is not ready to make a move

2. There are two reasons why this might happen:

The price might have already moved before I was ready to trade. I missed my chance.

The market might be moving slowly with no big players involved so the price is just bouncing around with no real direction.

3. The rule is the same in both cases:

If the price does not move past the open then I do not make a trade. It does not matter how sure I am about the direction of the market. If the price is not moving then I just wait.

4. So what do I do of making a trade:

I just treat it like a normal day and do not try to force a trade. I do not try to make a profit just because I am afraid of missing out. Staying out of the market on a day helps me keep my money safe for the next time the market is ready to make a move.

Traders who lose money on days are not wrong, about what they think the market will do. They are wrong because they are waiting for the market to give them permission to make a trade.

How do you decide if the market is just slow or if it is really dead?

A 5m FVG means nothing if time cycle isn’t matched time provides price, price doesn’t provide time (obviously) but let’s just make it super clear for those who seem to forget if you practice Quarterly Theory throughout the session - 90min macrocycle is the lowest probability filter to not take trades :

Q1 Accumulation Price creates the initial range / liquidity to both sides

Rule : don’t touch this , takes are a gamble until manipulation occurs

Q2 Manipulation The Judas swing, Sweeps Q1 liquid or True open.

Rule : SMT or sweep into HTF levels Rule : take set ups here 22.5-45 m

Q3 Expansion -The highest probable window of the 90m cycle (likely within 3min, 5min, 15m)

Rule : execute the trade - (MSS+FVG in to the zone) ONCE Q2 has completed the Judas/sweep

Q4 Distribution Price slows down, ready for next cycle.

Rule :Secure trades, trail SLs.

NO NEW ENTRIES Takeaway : Trades in Q1/late Q4 lose at a high win rate .

Let the Judas (Q2) do its job, and enter off the back of that move in Q3. Are you guys matching entries with 90m cycle or are you just clicking on any fvg that pops up?

I've been trading for almost 2 years now, and I've gotten a basic understanding of how to trade and how the market works. I've managed to pass my account twice, and I'm currently funded right now, but I'm having trouble consistently staying in profit or just making profit in general. And I don't know why.

I feel like I'm right at the edge of everything clicking for me to transition into becoming profitable, but I also just don't know WTF I'm doing wrong or if I'm doing anything wrong at all.

I've always been good at knowing where the market is going to go just by looking at the chart, but I didn't know when it was going to go in said direction until I figured that out. I've figured out how to use my daily bias to win trades. I have a tried and tested model that I know works. I've even created my own setup kill zone to make it easier to find my setups or invalid setups going in the direction of my bias.

I've figured out what times the market is likely to be volatile or slow. I know what market conditions to stay out of and what I can enter off of. I make sure to follow my rules, and I hold myself accountable if I break them.

I took a trade yesterday and went B/E, and from that, I learned that I need to work more on my liquidity targeting, so I set up a list of targets to look at on my chart.

I just don't know what I'm missing. I feel like it's there, but I just can't see it.

Hey guys and girls ! I want to get into trading and learning to foreign exchange and then get into stocks when I can build my capital.

Question who is a reliable teacher that can teach the basics as well as a method .

I will be trading on a paper account for the first 3 months and then dabble into real funds once I can see wins pop up on the paper account .

But all feedback is welcomed!