Find the ITH: the game to rank highs as STH, ITH, LTH
Not all highs are equal. The one price comes back to test is the one that matters. The game: three real Nasdaq or gold charts. Among the highs (or lows) never broken, tap the one price came back to touch: the ITH. STHs, never retested, are traps.
How to play
Pick a level, then find the ITH on three charts in a row. Tap the right candle and the answer appears on the chart; tap the wrong one and the game shows you what is off, candle by candle. After each chart, the answer lists every solution with its time and price.
Easy: unlimited mistakes. Medium: three mistakes. Hard: just one. You can stretch the candles by dragging the price or time scale, as on TradingView.
The rule that keeps score
The levels: clear highs and lows, surrounded by 2 lower (or higher) candles on each side, that price never exceeded. As the fiche says, they are ranked by the returns of price they survived, not by their age.
A retest, here: after a pullback of at least 2 average candles, a candle comes back within a fifth of a candle of the level without going beyond. The level with at least one retest is the ITH (or ITL); those with none are STHs, shown as traps. A return stopping just too far, or a level exceeded by a few points, leaves the chart out. The LTH, the level that survived the most returns over a long period, is read on longer charts than the game’s.
Read next: STH / ITH / LTH · Liquidity (buy-side / sell-side) · Liquidity Pool
Why train this way
Knowing the definition is good. Spotting it in a blink on a moving chart is something else, and that is exactly what this game trains: lots of charts, the answer straight away, the explanation when you get it wrong. Your eye learns fast, with nothing to learn by heart. It is a reading exercise on past data, not a trading signal.
The beginner path
In any order you like, but each chapter assumes the ones before it.
Its colour and its four prices: open, close, high, low.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Chapter 1The marketBet up or down, and count what you win or lose, in points and in dollars.
3 levels · 5 charts per gamePlay →Chapter 2Highs and lowsThe waves of price, and the landmarks they leave.
3 levels · 5 charts per gamePlay →Chapter 3The trendUp, down or range, read on four points.
3 levels · 5 charts per gamePlay →Chapter 4The break of structureThe close that confirms the trend goes on.
3 levels · 5 charts per gamePlay →Chapter 5Support and resistanceThe levels price will meet, above and below.
3 levels · 5 charts per gamePlay →Chapter 6RiskThe stop, the target, R and the number of contracts.
3 levels · 5 charts per gamePlay →Chapter 7DecidingLong, short, or do nothing, on a real moment of a session.
3 levels · 5 charts per gamePlay →Final examThe final examThe whole path on a real moment of a session, with no help.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →The ICT concepts
What comes after the beginner path: each ICT concept has its game, on real charts, with its written rule.
The first break against the trend.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →DisplacementThe big candle that shows real intent.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →CISDThe close that flips the delivery.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Equal highs / lowsTwo highs at the same level: a pool of stops.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →The high that survived a return of price.
3 levels · 3 charts per gameWhere the stops sit, above and below.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Stop huntThe wick that goes for the stops, then comes back.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Draw on liquidityThe liquidity price goes for.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Fair Value GapThe price gap left by a candle that moved too fast.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Inversion FVGThe FVG price went through, and that switches sides.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Balanced Price RangeTwo opposite FVGs that overlap.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Breakaway gapThe first FVG of a pair, which price never fills.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Order blockThe last opposite candle before an impulsive move.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Breaker blockThe order block that gave way, and switches sides.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Mitigation blockThe order block revisited, that holds, and that price leaves from.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Premium / discountThe middle of the range: expensive above, cheap below.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Optimal Trade EntryThe pullback zone between 62 and 79%.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →SessionsLondon, New York, and the hours they overlap.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →KillzonesThe hours when the market really moves.
3 levels · 3 charts per gamePlay →Silver bulletThe FVG formed in the right hour.
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