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title: 'This Boring ICT Strategy Made Me $6,000 In Under An Hour'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ias0HhHUqj4'
video_id: 'Ias0HhHUqj4'
date: 2026-07-05
duration_sec: 386
channel: 'TJR'
---

# This Boring ICT Strategy Made Me $6,000 In Under An Hour

> Source: [This Boring ICT Strategy Made Me $6,000 In Under An Hour](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ias0HhHUqj4)

## Summary

A trader breaks down a trade that made $6,000 in under an hour, explaining the top-down analysis, confluences, and execution steps. The focus is on using ICT concepts like SMT divergence, liquidity sweeps, and fair value gaps to find high-probability setups.

### Key Points

- **Daily Bias Determination** [00:30] — From top-down analysis, the market was significantly overbought from Wednesday, indicating a bearish bias. Sweeping daily highs added confluence for profit-taking.
- **Hourly Liquidity Sweep** [01:23] — On the hourly timeframe, the S&P swept out highs right at market open, confirming a liquidity sweep to the upside with a bearish bias.
- **SMT Divergence Identified** [01:53] — SMT divergence appeared: ES made a higher high while NQ made a lower high, signaling that price would likely go lower.
- **Confirmation via FVG Invalidation** [02:58] — A bullish fair value gap was invalidated, creating an inverse fair value gap that confirmed bearish momentum. Price then filled a bearish FVG to the downside.
- **Execution and Targets** [03:55] — Entry was taken after confluences. One contract was managed at 15-minute lows (1:2 RR), and the rest ran to high timeframe drawn liquidity for final take profit.

### Conclusion

The trade demonstrates how combining multiple ICT concepts—daily bias, liquidity sweeps, SMT divergence, and fair value gaps—can lead to a high-probability setup with significant profit potential.

## Transcript

I'm about to lay down the ICT strategy that made me $6,000 in under an hour. This isn't going to be one of those videos that makes you feel like you're on the spectrum or, you know, a little bit messed up in the head. All right, I'm going to break this down super
simply so you guys can copy and apply it to your trading today. If you guys are struggling trying to understand ICT or just being consistent in general, this video is going to help a lot. So just sit back, let it happen. Let's get in the charts. So let's jump right into this. This was on
June 6th, so super recently, Thursday, okay, of last week. First and foremost, we're just going to get into top-down analysis, okay, how I found my daily bias for this day, right? So first of all,
I'm looking in here and I'm seeing, okay, cool, we are significantly overbought from Wednesday, okay? We definitely want to come down into the equilibrium of this range from down here to up
here. So I'm looking for bearish bias. On top of that, we just came through and swept out some daily highs. Okay. So again, that's more of a confluence for at least some profits to be taken off of these daily highs getting hit. So from here again, what am I looking for? I'm looking
for equilibrium from these range lows up to these range highs. And again, we're not necessarily going to be including this price action because that was from before. But again, I want to see this equilibrium hit. And again, we're kind of ranging right now, but I do think that we can
come back down to this area at some point in time. So boom, I got a bearish bias going into that scale down a little bit further. Okay, on the hourly timeframe, we can see on the S&P, we came right on up swept up these highs right when market opened boom liquidity sweeper okay Liquidity sweep to the top side while having a bearish bias moneymaker
Scaling down even further, oh, what's that you say? SMT divergence. And all of these concepts that I'm talking about right now, I have videos on the trading transformation that talk about all of these, okay?
So again, I'm doing like kind of a interactive trade recap for you guys. So you guys can fully understand this more. But if you guys need or hear like a concept that you've never heard before, it's already been covered in trading transformation or in the bootcamp several times over.
So boom, we see initial sweep right when market opens. Beautiful, right? From there, we see an SMT divergence. We see a high made right here and then a higher high on ES.
And then if we go over to NQ, let me show where market opens so you guys can see and understand what I'm talking about. We have a high and then we have a lower high. So NQ, because it has SMT divergence, is pretty much telling us, hey, we are going to go lower. So from there, what am I doing?
Scaling down even lower. I see the SMT divergence on the higher time frame. We scale down. Boom, we can see this again. From there, we got the liquidity sweep. We see an SMT divergence. I'm
on the one minute okay i'm trying to get in and i'm trying to get active what am i looking for to execute i'm looking for a confirmation and i'm looking for a third confluence okay so what do we get we get a liquidity sweep what do we have right here a bullish fair value gap that gets
invalidated okay an inverse fair value gap boom we get that break one of our confirmations with an inverse fair value gap saying hey price is probably going to go lower From there what do we see happen right after that
Boom, price comes in, fills in this bearish fair value gap perfectly, gives us a reaction to the downside, execute on that shit.
And if you guys have seen, I'm pretty sure I posted this on my Instagram story, so you guys know I ain't capping. okay i showed the executions on that and i was talking about all of these confluences live on kick so we have a couple confluences here we have boom these lows right here which
were 15 minute lows for a one to two risk reward ratio and then also on top of that boom what do we have these high time frame lows all the way down here and as you guys know i've already done a trade recap on this for you guys that you guys can go back and watch again but we can see that
because of that SMT divergence on NASDAQ over here, we can see, oh, well, NASDAQ, when that happened, immediately came down, took out these same lows that the S&P did, but also came down
and took out these high timeframe lows. So maybe in my case, I managed one of my contracts right here, boom, managed one of the contracts right here, and then let the rest run all the way down
until final take profit right here, which happened over time. Why? Because NASDAQ was going to be able to tell us hey we hit this high timeframe draw on liquidity Our bias was bearish because boom we were really overbought We had equilibrium that price is probably going to seek out We had an SMT divergence along with a sweep of liquidity along with an inverse fair value gap giving us confirmation along with a bearish
a bearish fair value gap that gives us even more confirmation of the downside entry off that stops above this high boom, final take profit on this drawn liquidity. Simple as that, man.
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as well go into the fucking charts and apply what i just taught you okay i've given literally all of these confluences to you guys within the boot camp i'll you know send a fucking link bank up here to the boot camp bank up here to the trading transformation okay there's also links in the
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