The free ICT course

This free ICT course follows on from the site’s beginner course. It is for someone who already knows what a candle, a stop and a position size are, reads a trend and draws a support — the first two levels of « Le trading de A à Z » —, or for someone who already trades and wants to understand the ICT method in order rather than through scattered videos.

ICT, for Inner Circle Trader, is a way of reading price built on structure, liquidity, the zones left by fast moves and the hours when they happen. The vocabulary is abundant and often badly explained; here, each notion comes at the moment the previous one made it necessary.

Six modules, in the order the notions build on one another: structure, liquidity, zones, time, putting it all together into a complete model, then what makes you last.

Each module is read step by step, like the beginner course: a question, its answer, a diagram, a real chart, one line to remember. The charts are drawn from real data — Nasdaq, S&P 500, gold and the euro FX future —, every price read and not drawn: the method reads the same way on an index and on a currency pair.

Each step links to the glossary entry for the full definition, and to an Arena exercise to practise recognising the notion on dozens of charts. Reading a definition is not enough: it is the eye that has to learn, and it learns by seeing many examples, losing ones included.

Keep the course’s order. The CHoCH makes no sense without the swings that count, and liquidity makes none without structure.

It will not give you a win rate. On this site, fourteen quality criteria of a setup were measured over thousands of trades: the strength of a level, the session, premium and discount, the higher-timeframe bias, the quality of the imbalance… None of them separated good setups from bad ones: with or without them, the result stays between 48 and 50% winning trades at 1 R, that is with a target as far as the stop.

So ICT is a reading frame, not a promise. What it brings is a reason to look at one place rather than another, and a precise point where the idea becomes wrong, which lets you build a trade whose risk is known in advance. What it does not bring is the assurance that the trade will win.

And it will not tell you what to buy or when. This site gives no personalised investment advice; the examples are past sessions, chosen for how clearly they read and never for their outcome.