ICT Silver Bullet strategy explainedAdvanced

The idea

The Silver Bullet trades a single hour when the New York session usually delivers a clean move, most often 10:00 to 11:00 New York time (some traders also use 03:00 to 04:00 and 14:00 to 15:00). Inside that hour, price takes a nearby high or low, then leaves a fair value gap the other way. The trade rides from that gap to the next pool of liquidity.

The rules

1. Only look inside the time window.
2. Wait for price to sweep an obvious high or low.
3. Wait for the first fair value gap in the opposite direction.
4. Enter with a limit order in the gap.
5. Stop beyond the sweep or beyond the gap.
6. Target the next liquidity, often with a minimum of 2R.

Variations traders use

Many only take the setup in the direction of the higher-timeframe bias. Some require the sweep to be of the Asian or London range earlier in the day, which WickCheck can test with 'The sweep can happen before the window.' Others skip days with major US news.

What testing shows

The plain mechanical version is a small-sample strategy: one hour a day on 5-minute candles gives roughly 25 to 35 trades a year per market, so results swing a lot. See the live numbers on five markets in the library, then add your own filters and compare.