Judas Swing
The session's first push runs opposite to the real move, to load liquidity on the wrong side.
In the chapter
VIIEntry models
The named setups, one by one
From the same chapter
- Venom ModelA 2025 ICT model: the 08:00–09:30 ET box is swept at the open and price reverses. Same skeleton as the MCI core with a different range.
- Silver BulletAn hourly model: within 10:00–11:00 ET the algorithm leaves an FVG that gets rebalanced. There is an afternoon version.
- Turtle SoupFading a false break: price takes out an obvious extreme, fails to get acceptance and comes back inside. You enter on the reclaim. Not ICT's: Raschke and Connors created it (Street Smarts, 1996); ICT reframes it as sweeping a swing point on any timeframe.
- 2022 ModelThe four-step skeleton: raid → displacement with FVG → entry on the retracement → delivery to the opposite pool.
- Power of ThreeAccumulation → Manipulation → Distribution. The shape of every session, fractal at every scale.
- UnicornA breaker and an FVG overlapping at the same price: two independent reasons to react there.
- OTEA 62–79% retracement of an impulse. A CONTINUATION model: it demands the trend on your side.
- SMTOne index sweeps its extreme and the other does not. It gives away that the sweep was manipulation; you trade the strong index.