The Inner Circle Trader Twitter Spaces Archive

This is from August 23, 2026.

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In this shotgun Saturday, Michael covers a number of topics, from his haters, to discussing what he demonstrated this week in his livestreams, to more topics on the psychology of trading.

Stick around. It's inspirational, if a bit raw at times.

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Raw and unfiltered. ICT gives us his thoughts on prop firms and how it harms your trading. Not for sensitive ears.

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Michael takes the time for a question and answer session with the audience, and then spend some time discussing unusual topics.

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Michael talks about the current volitile market conditions and what might be in store going forward.

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ICT joins @ICT_Concepts and answers your questions, while dropping gems.

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Not exactly trading related, but let's take a drop into the rabbit hole.

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Michael takes a little time to try not to talk about the markets, but you know how Michael is.

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@ICT_Concepts hosts a marathon space where Michael kindly jumps in at the 2h 53m 30s to answer questions and continue the discussions started earlier.  Listen until the end.

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@ICT_Concepts hosts a question and answer session from the audience with Michael.  Many topics covered and is worth a listen.

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Michael talks to us today with an inspirational talk on achieving your goals in trading.

This space goes long on psychology.

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@ICT_Concepts hosts a question and answer session from the audience with Michael after Michaels X space.

Lots of information, clarifications and yes, some lessons. 

Well worth your time to have a listen as ICT drops some real gems for the astute student.

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ICT brings us a lesson on starting and finding success in trading.  Also, some homework for the week to help you find what exists in your chart.  And some gems for the astute student.

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On October 18th, Michael gave a livestream (ICT PD Array Matrix Revealed \ October 18, 2025) where he showed us a few new tricks on how to determine which PD Arrays would be most useful to use and why.

As he often does, @ICT_Concepts hosted a space afterwards to discuss Michael's livestream and the new lessons given.

Michael joined the stream to futher discuss what he taught and answer questions at the 1h 32m 10s mark.

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Michael discusses the last two weeks of lessons and what it means.  As usual, there are lessons inside the lessons.

Unfortunately, the stream got cut off before Michael finished.

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Today, Michael talks a little about why are you doing this and what really matters in your pursuit of trading.

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Michael is inspired by his detractors to give us a little lesson.  This space covers psychology, your motivation, why he does what he does and a peek behind the curtain.  Oh, and for the diligent, there are the lessons from the Jademaster.

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Kitt of ICT Concepts held a space afterwards where Michael graciously joined.  He tooks some questions and then went over some of the lessons from the previous space that failed to record properly.   Michael also confirms a new PD array that one of the students identified on their own.  Consider this part of the previous space.  

Michael then goes into a long discussion about what he sees coming to the US/World in the coming year based on his observations and how it will affect the market.  He also provides some advice on how to prepare.

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Michael gives a lesson on Bias vs Narrative and how to use it in your trading. 

Unfortunately the sound quality was very bad in some parts.  Use headphones to hear what is being said in the sections that haven't dropped out entirely. 

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In today's ICT space, Michael discusses the psychology of fear of missing your trade. If you understand your model properly, you will know that there are always new setups forming at the proper time.

If you've properly backtested, this will seem obvious.

Michael also briefly explains some of the recently taught models and his overall approach to finding setups (seek liquidity and inefficiencies)

Do you know what time it is?

Consider this part of the 2025 Lecture Series.

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Michael talks about the things that influence us and how it affects us as a trader.

Who do you surround yourself with?

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A lesson on how others can aid or hinder the development of your success as seen through the past experiences of Michael.

Psychology and Inspiration.

How to hold yourself accountable and how to get off your butt and move forward into your trading career. More on how you should be encouraging yourself to ensure your success.

Reminders of some of the previous lessons and concepts taught.

Strong language is used.

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This is not just about your trading psychology.  It's more to do with advice on how to improve your thinking about how you are doing to do better today than you did yesterday. 

Some very solid advice to be heard.

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ICT discusses his thoughts on the current political landscape and how it is going to affect the markets in the coming year of 2025

Good news, forex is back on the menu.

Better news, ICT will continue the university level education for the dedicated students starting Feb 2025 while looking at all the interesting markets.

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Consider this Space as part of the 2024 Mentorship Lectures.

ICT discusses what we learned this week and why what we are learning is different from retail concepts. We are learning how to anticipate the far right of chart while retail rely on luck and failed concepts.

Lots of valuable advice here on how to achieve your best success and what to do with it.

The last hour is a sermon. Whether you believe or not, you 're going to learn something if you take the time to listen.

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This space is a continuation of the 2024 Mentorship lectures and provides expanded lessons and some tips on how to be more successful in your studies.

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A lecture on mindset, journaling and how to succeed.  In the second half, ICT teaches on how to deal with stress and anxiety with a few simple exercises.

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ICT felt like having a little rant today on Youtube. Unfortunately, the video was pulled a few minutes after he finished. Fortunately, a copy was saved by @_eMiniHank and posted to X, the app formerly known as Twitter.

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Pitfalls & Plagues Of Trading Well:

1) Unrealistic Results

2) Peer Driven Performance

3) Social Media Influence

4) Lead Dog Pitfall

It's a good lesson on mindset and how to succeed.

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Join us for ICT's long goodbye where he covers all his, and our, favorite topics in his last twitter space.

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ICT talks about his 2024 plans and how he is planning to enter in the Robins Cup.

He also talks about his plan to win it while calling out his detractors to come and join him.

Especially Vinny, because it's time for Vinny to step up to the plate.

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In today's discussion, ICT talks about the importance of knowing when not to trade.

A lesson on dealing with asymmetrical markets is given and how to handle them.

You may wish to make sure you've already seen the October 15th Market Review before listening to the lessons in this space.

Finally, we end with a discussion that goes a little ways into the rabbit hole.

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ICT talks about the what motivates a new trader to trade and how that motivation affects their trading.

What is your impulse and are you in control of it? Are you really following your rules, or are you letting your desire to take a trade overrule your good sense?

Today's space is on the psychology of trading.

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This is essentially a continuation of the previous ICT Sunday sermon, and starts with some clarifications for those who misunderstood ICT's message.

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Consider this an ICT Sermon Sunday.

As a reminder, the Space I am about to begin is not trading related. I will be talking about things of faith.

Feel free to sit it out if you are not interested.

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ICT Joined @ICT_Concepts for an interesting discussion.  Oh, and ICT drops the gems and lessons again in addition to discussing may interesting things.

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ICT's Shotgun Saturday, on the heels of the September 30th market review. The word of the day is "discipline"

Do you have your rules and are you following them, or are you gambling?

A description of ICT's son's rules that he's found success with - when he follows the rules.

A bit about the discipline needed to succeed using ICT's son as a case study.

A description of a "strength training program" for the new trader to strengthen your discipline muscles.

and more interesting things discussed...

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This is not a space about trading. This is ICT talking about his beliefs and a little bit of biblical history.  Very interesting.

This may not be for everyone. Or maybe it is.

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This is a good once covering many topics: a generalization of the silver bullet model, what keeps you from succeeding, a message to ICT's detractors, a message for those on the sidelines.

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ICT walks through the aftermath of the September 20th FOMC report.

You will want to view the charts while you listen.

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This is not a space about trading.  This is ICT giving us his thoughts on God and religion and why he believes what he believes.

There are still lessons to be learned, if you have ears to hear.

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Are you wasting time on your learning journey? How do you keep yourself focused on your learning journey.

More about ICT's son, Cameron's incomplete trading model and how it it can be used on any time frame.

More lessons on trading for the advanced student of ICT's concepts and how high frequency trading algorithms work. How to strip down price action.

How to grow as a trader by taking smaller steps and building your confidence in your model.

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What are the things standing in your way of your trading success? ICT walks us through the psychology of what determines if we're going to succeed or fail.

There is journaling homework.

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What will you do if you can no longer make money from Prop firms? How can you make a living? What are some of the ways you can monetize your new trading skills beyond the market.

ICT gives you a few things to think about

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ICT talks about his plans for 2024.

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This is not a space about trading, but about taking your winnings and investing that money wisely in order to look after your family.

Some might consider this a "tin foil" hat topic, and maybe it is. But what if it isn't?

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As the title says. Are you in this for the short term, or the long term? How do you develop the confidence that your model will deliver?

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As the title says.

Oh, and another trading model described should you be so interested.

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ICT joined @ICT_Concepts Trader Round Up space for an impromptu bonus conversation.

The full space is 6.5 hours but ICT spoke for about 48 minutes. This audio is the excerpt of ICT's opinion on the topic.

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How do you prevent yourself from failing when your path is only towards success?

Maybe a little rant, maybe a little bit of that tin foil, maybe a bit of a warning.

Success is on your shoulders. Don't let yourself down.

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ICT joined @ICT_Concepts Trader Round Up space for an impromptu bonus lecture.

The full space is over 8 hours, but ICT's part, archived here, is just over an hour.

Enjoy.

Why are you trading? What are you going to do when you reach success?

Today, ICT deals with the psychology of success and how you can improve your success by looking beyond yourself.

There is important life advice here.

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Walk through NFP with ICT live.

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(there is a bit of silence at the beginning)

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Advice from a Father to his Son. And yes, lessons are included. Maybe a bit of a rant as well.

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ICT talks about how to succeed in your trading career.

Oh, and a live walkthrough of the market. Pull up your chart and take notes.

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ICT teaches on how to trade on the days you that he tells you avoid while you are a beginning trader.

For experienced traders only, and for beginning traders after they have gained experience.

Rules for trading NFP when holidays are involved.

Managing the psychology of trading as you grow in experience.

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Advice on how to get started in trading and overcoming the problems that all traders face when pushing the button. What is the right mindset? It's not a video game.

How much is enough? When to trade? How much to risk? Keeping your trading in proper perspective.

Lessons for ICT's son, and for you too. Be smart, learn from the mistakes of others rather than from your own mistakes.

An inspirational rant at the end. Pay attention. Take notes.

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ICT's Shotgun Saturday, continued.

--- updated desription from ICT himself https://twitter.com/I_Am_The_ICT/status/1675408419228987397 ---

In short... Excellence is a personal destination. Everyone will find it on their map with due diligence. I found mine with the grace of God. I shared my testimony, reminded everyone of facts, rebuked the devil, tree fell and stream disconnected me and I got sunbunt.

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This space will not help your trading. It a testament and a good one.

Why does ICT has the faith that he has and a talk some of the things that brought him to where he is.

The are those who didn't want this testimony heard, but we heard it anyway.

God wins.

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ICT gives us a poolside chat.

Unfortunately, ICT got cut off after an hour. He continues in the next space.

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How to grow your way into larger trades. Understanding your limitations and how to stretch beyond them.

Advice for younger men on their path to success on how to be successful.

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A Shotgun Saturday space, just done on a different day. A lot of topics are covered.

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Why are you here? Let's talk about it.

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Lessons learned from this weeks market. Sick sister concept. Immediate Rebalance. NWOGs and maybe a little tin foil hattery.

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new lessons and some tinfoil hat stuff

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Join me later in my next lecture on trade psychology and winning in the markets.

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a little holiday chat about the psychology of avoiding low probability trade conditions, sticking to your model and how not to get wrecked in the market when the market is consolidating.

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ICT speaks to us today as if he were speaking to his own children about the challenges of teaching and parenting, lessons that apply to us all equally as we insist on making our own mistakes.

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ICT talks about the psychological challenges faced when getting into drawdown and how easy it is for a trader to get themselves into that position.

What to do about it and how to escape it without adopting a gamblers mindset.

Based on ICT's experiences and mistakes as well as the recent experiences faced by his son.

Also, a new trading model is provided to the diligent student, lessons on NWOGs and advice on when to close a trade.

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ICT gives a discussion on when to know when you are ready to trade live and the psychological hurdles you will face.

Advice given in how to handle things when your trade decisions go against you.

For the diligent, a brief lesson is given on repeating setups.

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Feb 23 Market Review, projecting high/low of the day, more on NWOGs, NDOGs, SMT Divergence, Trade management, a model for quitting your job

and then a good number of rants on a number of topics.

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Market Wizardry and how ICT found his way to mastery by turning retail concepts on its head.  

What is market wizardry?  Would you recognize it if you saw it?

If you're listening to this lesson now, then you were meant to hear it.  Call it Divine Providence.  What you choose to do with the opportunity is up to you.

Lessons on what having money can do to you, so be warned.

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For all ICT students, you must listen to this before any other lesson.

If you don't listen, you're going to set yourself up for failure.  Don't do that.

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On trading live vs trading demo.  Why there are rules and why you follow them.  Overcoming fear and learning from your mistakes.

On passing the funded challenges with a single contract and without over leveraging with realistic expectations by practicing discipline and being selective.

On the upcoming festivities and being prepared for what the future brings.

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Review this one first: Feb 12 Market Review [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWvFUW-jY4w]

Dealing with uncertainties and what they are.  Learning to anticipate where the market will move next by waiting for the market to tip its hand.  

On learning: pick your own setup and focus on that; don't jump around.

A description of ICT's original successful trading plan.  

NWOG is useful on consolidating weeks.  Risk on and Risk off Dollar, how it affects the other markets.  When to trade cross pairs.  A description of the previous week trading profile (Tue high, Thu-Fri expansion) and how the previous Volume Imbalances influenced the consolidation.  On making your charts your own.

A discussion, and rant.

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A review of Friday, February 10 2023 price action.  

Topics covered: New Week Opening Gap (NWOG); New Day Opening Gap (NDOG), Tape Reading, Determining Orderflow, New PD Arrays (Volume Inbalances, Institutional Order Flow Entry Drills, NWOG, NDOG), How to setup your charts properly, Standard Deviations and the Fib tool, Institutional Market Structure, Final Hour Macro, More proof of algorithmically driven markets.

This is an incredible lesson.

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visual aid for this space: https://twitter.com/I_Am_The_ICT/status/1624405166559580161

How to get the maximal learning from the upcoming lessons this year.

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ICT gives us a peek behind the curtain on how the markets really work.  

You can accept the evidence he gives or not.

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A lesson on how to best take advantage of the coming 2023 mentorship.  

If you're here to learn, then you'll need to spend the time learning properly.  Don't let trading get in the way of your learning.

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Managing your stop loss of your trades.  Displaying enough information on your charts to make proper trade decisions by not being too zoomed in.

Use ICTs twitter videos as learning examples.  Examine the other timeframes to see why he took the trades he did.  Don't just look at the single timeframe of the video.  

Take partials.  Pay the trader.  Don't let emotions control your trades.  Use partials to relieve your trade anxiety.

Can you admit when you are wrong?

Winning trades need to be managed just like losing trades.  When you feel you should close your trades to avoid greater losses.  Never open your stops.  Never.  Take partials.

Never hold onto a losing trade.  

Understand you are three people: the analyst, the trader and the gambler.  Understand them all so you can control yourself and manage your trade, win or lose.  You must have your protocols in place, written down so your emotions don't gain control.

There's more...

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About today's difficult trading day (Jan 18th).  Answering some questions ICT commonly receives about the live commentary.  About the necessity of doing the homework and exercises and why you annotate your charts.

Eventually, you won't need me if you do the work and learn how to read price.

The current market conditions are the most difficult ICT has seen in 30 years.  No high probability movements for Wednesday, but we will need to watch the charts to see.  It would be safer to sit on the sidelines during these conditions.

A quick market commentary and key levels to look for heading into January the 19th trading.

Differences between Men and Women traders and how they approach trading.

More lessons on trade management and trading psychology.

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A discussion on how to learn tape reading and how not to hamper your learning.

topics covered: Psychology, mindset, models, and how to handle anxiety

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Follow the market realtime as ICT demonstrates his teachings as the candles print.

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Whoah, this is a long one.  Sit back, relax and learn.  Bonus lessons for the patiently astute students.

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ICT tells us why he does not trade NFP, and why you shouldn't either.  You should pay attention to this advice.

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ICT reflects on the year that's past and looks forward to the year to come.

Topics covered: learning, psychology, on living a better life and Thanks freely given.

For the diligent, there are some very strong insights into how the market algorithms work and some new trading models.  Some assembly required.  

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Get prepared for the 2023 Mentorship.  ICT discusses how his final year of public teaching will be through live price action walkthroughs.  

A discussion on how to get the maximum learning out of these sessions.

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There is a of learning in this one.  Take notes.

Trading psychology and the things that affect your trading success.  "know thyself" is necessary for consistency

Seasonal tendencies and how to use them.  A little on Market templates or market profiles.

Learning by understanding your mistakes

How to grow in your learning

How to win the Robbins Cup.

https://twitter.com/I_Am_The_ICT/status/1599048602273579009?s=20&t=ZkYEvy3E2nxvZ8iGDzsXtw

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This will not improve your trading.  This provides no education of any form.  This is a pure rant.  You will probably want to cover your ears.  Do make sure that small children and animals are not in listening range.

The original rant was about 17 minutes long, but we were unable to record the first few minutes the stream.

ICT has never claimed to be a Saint, and admits that his bipolar condition sometimes gets the better of him.  This is therapy.

Keep in mind, when someone threatens your family, you might justifiably get hot under the collar as well.

taking care of the body

reviewing the coming news events and the news to calibrate my expectations.

morning analysis, referencing the weekly chart and your previous weekend analysis.  

an explanation of a detailed trading model that trades with the bias.

advice for the aspiring trader, managing loss, managing psychology, the difficulties in the current market

Q&A from the audience

https://twitter.com/I_Am_The_ICT/status/1596851900988551168?s=20&t=3V0127VYV4tx-skUtcRqZQ

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ICT's definitive answer (as of November 2022) of the order you should study his vast amount of teaching material.

It's easier than you think but the work must still be done.  

https://twitter.com/I_Am_The_ICT/status/1596488931520188416?s=20&t=3V0127VYV4tx-skUtcRqZQ

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A last chat before the end of year trading vacation.

A thanks to ICT's followers for the positive feedback during the year.

A talk about how to win the robbins cup

More about using the 2022 model for finding success by not rushing the lessons.  Patience is the key.  There is no shortcut to success.  Where are you making your mistakes?  It takes time and honest self reflection to understand your weaknesses that get in the way of your success.

Do you deserve success?  Yes, of course you do but you cannot achieve it by being lazy.  

Time.  The most import and precious thing you have.

Thoughts on how you should be doing the work going forward if you want to be successful in this endeavour.

What to expect in 2023

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This is an important one.  Listen to it all.

In todays space, ICT discusses his thoughts on the coming commodity market and the possible future of forex and crypto.  The future of 

Lessons on trading and why you shouldn't hold onto losing trades.

A gauntlet is thrown down for anyone who cares to challenge ICT in the world cup trading championships in 2023.

oh, and for those who were diligent and paying attention, lessons were given on trading news and seasonal tendencies.

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ICT walks us through our S&P500 cfd / S&P 500 e-mini futures charts to practice tape reading and reminds us why we shouldn't trade during CPI and other hi impact news events.

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At 9pm tonight, 30 years ago... The Inner Circle Trader was born.  

Raised from the ashes of retail reasoning & forged in the furnace of The Refiner.  

Thank You LORD for answering my prayer and guiding me all this time.  

I am nothing without You God.  Let them see You in it all!

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A chat with ICT about trading and the psychology of trading and how he's teaching his youngest son

(@33m) A talk about the coming world events and ICT's observations on past and coming events.   Thoughts on digital currencies.  A trip down the rabbit hole.

(referenced: "The Illusion of Choice" which you should listen to)

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