Smart Money Concepts
Oct 26, 2026 6 min read
ICT Trading Explained: The Core Concepts, ICT Kill Zones and How They Fit Together
ICT trading is a vocabulary for one idea: price moves from liquidity to liquidity, engineered by the participants large enough to need it, and it does so at predictable times of day. This guide lays out the core ICT concepts in the order they are used, liquidity and the draw on it, market structure, order blocks and fair value gaps, premium and discount, the kill zones and the daily bias, and shows how a single trade assembles them, without the mysticism that surrounds the method online.
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