When Classic Analysis Gets Retired | September 27, 2025

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ICT summarizes recent lessons and argues for a departure from classical/retail analysis toward a precision, “smart-money” view of price action. Key points:

– Purpose: He’s refocusing listeners on core principles he’s taught recently (PD arrays, wicks, quadrants) and why they matter more than traditional indicators.
– Critique of classical/retail methods: Stochastics, RSI, moving-average crossovers, Elliott, etc., are often inconsistent, disagree with one another, and lead traders to chase false certainty or “perfect” indicator settings.
– What matters instead: Time + price reference points (PD arrays), inefficiencies shown by candlestick wicks, fair value gaps, buy/sell-side imbalance — these form repeatable quadrants the market tends to target.
– Precision and repeatability: His approach produces high-probability, repeatable calls (he claims tick-level accuracy and consistent quadrant hits) because it focuses on the algorithmic/market-making footprint, not arbitrary retail signals.
– Trade execution & psychology: You don’t need the absolute perfect entry; control, discipline, backtesting, journaling, specialization (one “pet” market), and disarming ego/fear are essential.
– On teaching and community: He shares his methods freely (YouTube/X), resists monetized affiliations, warns against repackagers who sell diluted versions, and will publish books mainly to preserve the material in his own words.
– Practical advice: Study his material, test it yourself, focus on the PD arrays and time, preserve capital, be consistent in practice, and avoid signal-hunting or paying unproven services.
– Personal notes: He’s healthier, humbled/grateful for students worldwide, dislikes trolls/entitlement, and plans a review/post on recent Nasdaq action to illustrate the concepts.

Bottom line: Move beyond retail indicators; learn to read price/time inefficiencies (wicks, PD arrays) with discipline and testing — that yields far more reliable, repeatable edges.

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