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title: 'This ICT Trading Strategy Should Be Illegal'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=A-MdplrMAzE'
video_id: 'A-MdplrMAzE'
date: 2026-07-20
duration_sec: 1179
channel: 'The Trading Geek'
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# This ICT Trading Strategy Should Be Illegal

> Source: [This ICT Trading Strategy Should Be Illegal](https://youtube.com/watch?v=A-MdplrMAzE)

## Summary

The video introduces ICT (Inner Circle Trader) concepts, focusing on buy-side and sell-side liquidity, market shifts, and how to trade them. The presenter, a price action trader, shares his beginner's understanding of these concepts and demonstrates how to identify liquidity zones and market structure shifts for trading entries.

### Key Points

- **Definition of Liquidity** [01:44] — Liquidity is orders plus stop losses. The market moves from buy-side liquidity (BSL) to sell-side liquidity (SSL) and back in a cycle.
- **Buy-Side and Sell-Side Liquidity** [02:14] — Buy-side liquidity is at resistance levels where retail traders place buy stops; sell-side liquidity is at support levels where they place sell stops.
- **Trading with the Trend** [03:39] — In an uptrend, identify sell-side liquidity and buy when price bounces off it. Example: price creates higher highs and higher lows, retraces to sell-side liquidity, then continues up.
- **Liquidity Sweep Example** [05:54] — Price respected sell-side liquidity twice, then aggressively broke below it, triggering retail sell stops, and reversed upward. This is smart money taking advantage of liquidity.
- **Liquidity Pool** [07:12] — A liquidity pool is an area with multiple rejections. The more rejections, the stronger the subsequent move. Example: price rejected a level three times then dropped sharply.
- **Market Shift** [07:52] — A market shift is a change in price direction, identified by a break of market structure (e.g., breaking the last lower high in a downtrend to signal a potential uptrend).
- **Three Keys to Success** [13:16] — 1) Strong will and discipline to overcome emotions; 2) Community (tribe) for support and idea sharing; 3) A mentor to shorten the learning curve.

### Conclusion

The video simplifies ICT concepts like liquidity and market shifts for beginners, emphasizing practical use over full understanding. It also stresses the importance of mindset, community, and mentorship for trading success.

## Transcript

focusing on learning smart money Concepts and also ICT Concepts I still believe that price action trading is one of the best way that you can trade in the Forex market and it's the best way especially for beginners but however as
Traders we have to always adapt and improve so I thought to myself that you know what Brad why not try and learn something new so and step out of my something new so and step out of my comfort zone so after seeing smart money
Concepts ICD Concepts literally all over social media I saw how cool it was like drawings where they write BLS and then liquidity and then fat when they get all that [ __ ] it looks kind of cool like their charts look cooler than mine my
price action chart is just pure price action Candlestick charts so I decided to try something new right learn something new before I hop onto the charts and explain to you guys some Concepts I want to have a disclaimer
this claimer note that I have just like started learning ICT Concepts so some of these concepts are still quite foreign and not really familiar to me and honestly to be honest with you I don't really understand like the definition
the real definition and how to explain it properly but what I can promise you is that I will try my best to simplify it all these complicated Concepts just right here I have my little notebook where I have written some notes on some
ICT Concepts so let's just like quickly go through it so firstly let's talk about liquidity right what is liquidity to be honest I don't really understand the real definition of it like I said but basically from what I understand
liquidity is basically orders plus stop losses okay liquidity is everywhere you liquidity at a low there's a liquidity at a high right it's basically everywhere now the market goes from buy side liquidity to cell site liquidity
and then back to buy side liquidity and vice versa right it's just a cycle of price going from BSL to SSL so what is buy-site liquidity so buy-site liquidity is something like a little resistance level okay it's something like a
resistance level so basically this is where retail Traders are placing their buy stops right basically at this buy side liquidity and then let me just put it down right here by site liquidity and then for your cell site liquidity is
your support level so I would say like somewhere right around here spot level right here and then this is your sell side liquidity okay just to know just support and resistance because sales liquidity is a place where the retail
Traders or whether or not retail Traders like people who think like retail minded support and resistance yeah they're going to be placing their sell stops like right here because a lot of retail Traders they will enter for ourselves
right so that is why we call this a sell site liquidity and I can see a lot of price break resistance and this is why we call it a buy side liquidity because there's a lot of buy stops in this area and there's a lot of sell stops at this
area and if you notice in these two circles what the price do price actually went above the buy side liquidity and then came back down same thing right here price actually went below the South Side located D and
I went back up so in these two cases there was somewhat of a manipulation so how do you trade this South Side liquidity and buy side liquidity like I said just now you must understand that price does not go anywhere the market
moved from South Side liquidity to buy side liquidity and then back to South case price went down to sell side liquidity and then it went up to the buy side liquidity and then it came back down to the sales side liquidity right
so these things are essentially someone like your G levels so like I always said in all my videos the trend is your friend so you want to trade with the trend so in this example you can see price is in the uptrend so in the
uptrend what we want to do is to spot sell side liquidity okay and you want to buy when price is bouncing off the sell side liquidity so an example could be this one right here you can see price is creating a high ice higher lows higher
price push up and starts retracing to create your new higher low notice this higher low that is up sell side liquidity somewhere right around here so I'm just going to put it down south side liquidity
so easily you could have easily entered for a buy somewhere right around here when price is rejecting the sell side liquidity and you start seeing signs and confluences that show you the price is going to go up so once again you can see
after price go up it went up to our buy side liquidity so what is buy side liquidity is basically this this high right here this is the high right here yeah so easily what if you have done is that you could have entered for a buy
somewhere right around here and then place a take profit at the buy side below this outside liquidity right here this will be have this would have been a very very simple trade so yeah just rinse and repeat this strategy in an
uptrend right whenever price creates your Sunset liquidity enter for a buy liquidity something like this all right like I said I don't really understand cell site liquidity I mean I kind of understand it but also kind of dumb
money concept right you kind of understand like why does it exist and stuff right but basically what you need to do is to how to use it all right it doesn't matter if you don't fully
understand all these terms and stuff but you have to understand how to use it that's the only thing that matters once again look at this example right here you can see there was this South Side liquidity somewhere right around here
price respectedly south side liquidity one time two time and the third time it liquidity there was actually a very aggressive move and what price did was
that it run below the sell side liquidity like this it breaks past the cell side liquidity and then start changing direction aggressively and start hitting up massively so there is reason why this happened was because
remember the smart money they are trading the opposite of what retail is that they're going to push the price down push the price down all the way down push the price down all the way down here trigger all the self-stops of
the retail Traders right they trigger all the sales of the retail Traders and their sales stops got triggered and the place has stopped was somewhere right around here boom liquidity boom liquidity the stop loss that sell the
orders both get filled huge liquidity inside this Zone somewhere right around here and then that is when smart money Concepts take advantage of this and trend and then push the price all the way up right that is a simple
explanation that I can give you on this whole concept of salsa and buy side liquidity now another concept is this thing called your liquidity pool so somewhere right around here there was a liquidity pool basically liquidity to
pull is an area where there is multiple rejections all right you can see right here price went up to this level rejected one time two times three times that was Mount multiple rejections at this key level right there where did my
chart go God damn it yup so basically multiple rejections which tell us that that this liquidity pull right around this area and the more price reject this level the more stronger the move is gonna be so you can see after price
rejected this liquidity pool multiple times and keep on building up building at this area and the next thing you know price drop massively so the next thing that I want to explain is this thing called your Market shift so where is the
quite related to the term Market structure so I've already done like a few videos on Market structure I told you guys how to use Market structure in the uptrend price will be creating your higher highs and higher lows and the
downtrend price will be creating your lower lows and lower highs and then the you guys and teach you guys some Concepts on Advanced break of structure like what constituted as a valid break-off structure right so now let me
introduce you to another concept called Market shift so what is market shift Market shift so what is market shift Market shift is basically a shift in the Market shift is basically a shift in the direction of the price delivery so when
price is going in a Direction and its shift to the opposite direction and this is what we call a market shift so it's basically like a reversal so how we can spot Market shift is by understanding things like your lower
highs lower lows higher highs higher lows retracements and impulses so Market shift is actually very very simple to understand it's basically a brick of structure right so you can see in this case price has just been creating your
case price has just been creating your lower highs lower lows lower highs lower see there's a mini lower high Wing form right here so what we can do is that we can draw like a level right here so right here this is the last lower high
right so just zoom in this you can see right now this is the last lower height can see price starts creating a lower low so at this point of time what you can even do is that you can even go down to the 15 minute time frame and you can
see that right here this is when the market shift happens okay the market shift happens somewhere right around here because you start seeing the trend go from a downtrend to an uptrend so somewhere right around here you can see
this is the last lower high and then over here price reverse and start going up and respect that it's lower high and then start going down and this is the last lower high and it is the last lower low and at this point of
time price starts going up and break through the last lower high so this is now a new higher low okay it's because this low is higher than this low right here so it reverse break through the last low high so at this point of time
somewhere right around here when price break through the last lower high it broke Market structure right this means that the direction of the trend could become an uptrend right now so at this point of time this is what we call the
point of time this is what we call the Market shift I put a market shift right around here so easily you after you see this you get easily entered for a buy somewhere right around here please just stop loss at the last higher
next key level which will be somewhere right around here yeah somewhere right around there you can see this was a huge Market shift yeah so after price created this uh little market shift look at what price did
but just continue going up and you just reverse from a downtrend to uh uptrend right now so that's a very very simple concept of Market shift I believe that this is pretty self-explanatory because if you understand Market structure you
will understand this concept of Market shift it's basically like a reversal so uptrend this time so you can see price has just been going uptrend creating a highs and higher lows so combining everything that we've just learned so
your self-site liquidity somewhere right liquidity and then there's another South Side liquidity somewhere right around here right it's outside liquidity
and outside liquidity somewhere right around here yeah so Southside liquidity higher high and high low so this is a beautiful uptrend so let me just clear this thing up for you right now and where's the previous higher low so you
I can see price just created a higher high and I can start saying price creating a new higher low somewhere right around here there's a new higher low and then price starts creating another height but
you can see this time around this height is lower than the previous height so you can see right here price actually went back down and break through the last low so just broke through the last higher low somewhere right around here
at this point of time this is when the ladies and gentlemen the market Chief occurs okay the market shift occurs Market shift occurs when price has broke Market structure so right here this is when price broke through the last higher
this is the first time to tell us that the market is going to change direction from uptrend to a downtrend where price is creating your lower highs and lower lows so once again easily you could have entered or sell somewhere right around
here where the market shift happens place a stop loss at the last lower higher a this is the last High okay please let's stop loss at the last the next key level which could be somewhere down right around this area
here the next key level right here yeah somewhere right around here this would have been a very very nice trade right so this Market shift allow you to spot reverses allow you to spot reverses and it allows you to get in at the top of
the reversal so they can really benefit from the beautiful opposite direction from the beautiful opposite direction move does that make sense welcome centered section so in this section this uncensored
section I want to share with you the three things I believe that you need to have if you want to become a successful Trader quit your job and Achieve Trader quit your job and Achieve Financial location and time Freedom you
first thing that you need to have is sure will I believe that a huge part of My Success was because I have the shared will the discipline to do the hard things especially when I don't feel like it so the thing about share wheel is
that you cannot let your emotions control you let me tell you something this Market is a cold hard place the market is cruel when you trade the market will expose every single ounce of emotion that you have fear greed fomo
thought that you have the market will expose you for it and will tell you will show you that you are actually a greedy mother and also you are a very very bad person so once again the market is a cold
heartless place the market does not care about you and you will feel losing money all right and the ability to face what comes is what makes you stand out from the losers all right you have to face the fear the difficulty is overcome all
the trials and tribulation the obstacles in your way the insecurities or the self-doubt that is holding you back you have to overcome all that stuff if you have to become a successful Trader and the truth is this is where 90 of Traders
fail 90 of Traders they are not able to overcome all this stuff because all of overcome all this stuff because all of these stars are super duper hard to overcome all of these are human emotions
all of these are connected to your mental health so if you have a shitty mental health you are maybe watching porn every single day jacking off doing all the bad habits like playing video games just wasting your life away this
all these things smoking drinking leads you to having bad mental health and once you have bad mental health you're just projecting your emotions onto the market you're just taking it out on the market and when you do so you will continue
losing money and you'll continue hating the markets it will continue thinking forth and that is how we can develop surely will now the second thing you surely will now the second thing you need is community community a solid
Community a solid tribe so if you do not know every single human All Humans right since the dawn of time they will always love to be part of a tribe right they
this is where everyone can help each other everyone can socialize and then that is where they can transcend and become better version of themselves by being part of a tribe which is exactly why I created a Discord server named the
trading tribe which is basically a community for other Traders all around the world to come together connect with each other share ideas with each other bounce ideas off each other and basically help each other improve to
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