The Trade#
Instrument: MNQ (Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100)
Direction: Long
Session: roughly 10:40 to 11:00 AM ET
Model: ICT Silver Bullet (10 to 11 AM window)
Result: ✅ WIN, about +111 points to target
Draw on Liquidity#
The morning built the whole story before the entry ever showed up. Price sold off out of the 09:30 open, set the NY Low, then pushed just below it. That was a clean sellside liquidity sweep that ran the resting stops under the low. That sweep was the tell. Liquidity got taken, and price snapped back up with a break of structure (BOS) that flipped short term intent bullish. With sellside already engineered and taken, the obvious upside draw was the NY Open High around 29,735.
The Setup#
- Sweep: sellside taken below the NY Low
- BOS: displacement leg back up confirmed the shift in order flow
- Entry: retrace into the 3m inverse FVG (around 29,601 to 29,624), long as the gap held as support
- Stop: below the iFVG (around 29,600)
- Target: NY Open High at 29,735 (session extended to about 29,752)
- R:R: about 24 pts risk for about 111 pts to target, roughly 1:4.6
How It Played Out#
The gap did its job. After the BOS, price pulled back into the 3m inverse FVG and respected it as support instead of continuing lower. That was exactly the confirmation I wait for. From there it was a fairly clean delivery, higher into the silver bullet window, through the NY Open High, and on to a session high near 29,752. Textbook run from a swept low into a break of structure and then the FVG entry, right in the 10 to 11 AM window where I want to be looking.
Key Lesson#
Let the model come to me. The edge was not predicting the low. It was waiting for the sweep and BOS to confirm, then trusting the inverse FVG entry with the stop tucked under the gap. Patience for the confirmation is what turned a small defined risk into a roughly 1:4.6 winner.
Educational purposes only. This is my personal analysis, not financial advice. Always do your own research and never risk more than you can afford to lose.