ICT Abbreviations: The Complete A-Z List
A
The first phase of the Power of 3 daily cycle, where price consolidates in a range while institutions build positions. Full guide →
The three-phase daily delivery template — also called Power of 3. Range builds, one side is swept, then the real move delivers. Full guide →
The consolidation that forms during the Asian session, often the accumulation phase that later gets swept by London. Full guide →
B
An order block that failed and flipped — support becomes resistance, or the reverse — marking a shift in control. Full guide →
Moving the stop loss to the entry price once a trade is in profit, so the worst case becomes no loss.
A bullish fair value gap — a three-candle imbalance to the upside that price often returns to rebalance. Full guide →
A clean break of the prior swing in the trend direction, confirming the trend is continuing. Full guide →
Two opposing, overlapping fair value gaps that create a strong reaction zone when revisited. Full guide →
Resting orders above old highs — the stops of sellers and the orders of breakout buyers — that price reaches for. Full guide →
C
The first structural sign of a reversal — a break of the most recent counter-trend swing point. Full guide →
The moment price shifts from delivering one direction to the other, often the earliest reversal signal. Full guide →
A framework that reads a single higher-timeframe candle as a range to be swept and reversed on lower timeframes. Full guide →
D
The final Power of 3 phase, where the true directional move delivers after the manipulation. Full guide →
The liquidity target price is most likely gravitating toward — the magnet that defines directional bias. Full guide →
The defined high-to-low range price is currently working within, bounded by external liquidity. Full guide →
E
The midpoint of a range that separates premium from discount; price above is expensive, below is cheap. Full guide →
Relative equal levels where liquidity pools, making them prime targets for a sweep. Full guide →
The liquidity resting at the swing highs and lows that bound a range. Full guide →
F
A three-candle imbalance left by a fast move; price often returns to rebalance it. One of the most-used ICT entries. Full guide →
I
A trap level that lures retail traders in early, whose stops then fuel the real move. Full guide →
A fair value gap that has been traded through and now acts in the opposite role — support becomes resistance. Full guide →
The algorithmic engine ICT teaches as delivering price, operating on repeatable time and liquidity logic. Full guide →
The liquidity inside a dealing range — the fair value gaps and order blocks — as opposed to the swing extremes. Full guide →
J
The false move at a session open that fakes traders the wrong way before the real move — the manipulation leg. Full guide →
K
A high-probability time window (Asian, London, NY AM, NY PM) where institutional volume concentrates. Full guide →
L
A cluster of resting orders at an obvious level, which smart money targets to fill large positions. Full guide →
A sharp move that runs a pool of stops before reversing — the classic ICT reversal trigger. Full guide →
A thin price area with little trading that price tends to move through quickly and later revisit. Full guide →
M
The middle Power of 3 phase — the liquidity grab that traps traders before distribution. Full guide →
A block left where institutions mitigate an earlier position, acting as a support or resistance zone. Full guide →
ICT’s model of how market makers engineer a full move — accumulation, distribution, and the reversal between. Full guide →
The displacement-backed structural break that triggers a lower-timeframe reversal entry. Full guide →
N
The gap between one day’s close and the next day’s open, which price often reacts to. Full guide →
The gap between Friday’s close and Sunday/Monday’s open — a key weekly reference level. Full guide →
O
The origin candle of a strong move — where institutions loaded orders — and a precise re-entry zone. Full guide →
The 62%-79% retracement zone of an impulse leg, offering the best risk-to-reward entry with the trend. Full guide →
P
Yesterday’s extremes — common liquidity targets and daily bias reference points. Full guide →
Any specific institutional price level within a range — order blocks, FVGs, breakers and more. Full guide →
Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution — the daily delivery template of price. Full guide →
R
A block formed by long wicks rejecting a level, marking where price refused to trade and reversed. Full guide →
In Candle Range Theory, the higher-timeframe candle whose range is read for the sweep-and-reverse. Full guide →
S
A one-hour NY AM window (10-11 ET) delivering a reliable FVG entry in the direction of the daily bias. Full guide →
A bearish fair value gap — a downside three-candle imbalance price returns to rebalance. Full guide →
The popularised framework built on the same liquidity, imbalance and structure foundations as ICT. Full guide →
Disagreement between two correlated markets at a key level, revealing smart money rejecting it. Full guide →
Resting orders below old lows — the stops of buyers and orders of breakout sellers. Full guide →
T
The failed-breakout reversal — price sweeps an equal high/low, fails, and reverses. Full guide →
U
A high-probability confluence where a breaker block overlaps a fair value gap. Full guide →