ICT Silver Bullet

What it is

The Silver Bullet is an ICT model traded inside set one-hour windows: 03:00–04:00, 10:00–11:00 and 14:00–15:00 New York time (usually 08:00, 15:00 and 19:00 UK time, though an hour different for a few weeks a year when the clocks change on different dates).

Inside the window, you wait for price to take out nearby liquidity, then displace the other way and leave a fair value gap. The entry is the return to that FVG, targeting the opposite liquidity.

How to spot it

• A sweep of a nearby high or low inside the window.
• A displacement move that leaves an FVG in the new direction.

How to use it

• Enter on the return to the FVG, stop beyond the FVG or the sweep, target the next obvious liquidity.
• No setup inside the window: no trade.

Common mistakes

• Taking setups just outside the window because they look similar.
• Ignoring the higher-timeframe draw on liquidity.

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