One of the cornerstones of Inner Circle Trader’s 2022 mentorship model is the concept of ICT daily bias. This blog post will provide insights into understanding daily
bias, guiding you in identifying key factors
essential for establishing a robust daily bias in your trading strategy.
Understanding the ICT Daily Bias in
Trading
The concept of daily bias revolves around
the identification of sell-side and buy-side liquidity, fair value gaps, order blocks, volume imbalances, and recent highs and lows.
These elements collectively represent draws
on liquidity, guiding market movement from one liquidity pocket to another. The approach involves analyzing these aspects on both weekly and daily timeframes, recognizing that price behavior and respect for these elements may vary with the timeframe.
Fractality of Price Movement
Price movement in trading is fractal,
meaning that patterns and behaviors observed on higher timeframes like weekly often mirror those on lower timeframes like daily. However, lower timeframes may exhibit more noise and are prone to greater price disrespect of identified trends and patterns.
Utilizing Weekly Bias for Daily Analysis
Understanding the weekly market trend is
essential for establishing a clear daily bias. If the weekly trend is bullish, for instance, the focus on a daily timeframe would involve identifying opportunities to go long and targeting specific highs for potential trades.
Step-by-Step Approach For
Developing ICT Daily Bias. Step 1
To establish a daily bias, begin by analyzing
the D1 timeframe on the chart. According to Michle Hudleston, Institutional traders and banks utilize the daily chart to execute their orders effectively. As shown in the chart above, start by marking the recent swing high and swing low using the trend line tool. This marking should be done at the beginning of the week, aiming to anticipate the direction of price movement rather than pinpointing the precise value it will reach.
Step 2
The second step involves identifying the
drawn-on liquidity. Determine whether the recent algorithm activity leans towards sell- side or buy-side liquidity on the daily timeframe. If the price has recently swept the sell-side liquidity, there is a strong likelihood that the next drawn-on liquidity will be buy-side, and vice versa. In the chart below, you can observe that the price has recently interacted with sell-side liquidity, and the next anticipated drawn-on liquidity is on the buy-side.