Beginner📖 18 min read🏷 Foundation
MARKET STRUCTURE
The Language of Price — How to Read What the Market Is Actually Saying
Before you can trade ICT, you need to understand one thing: price is not random. It moves in a very specific, structured way — and once you learn to read that structure, you will never look at a chart the same way again. Market structure is the foundation of everything in ICT. It tells you the direction price is going, when that direction is changing, and when a new move is starting.
BOS vs ChoCH — the two most critical market structure signals in ICT
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Market structure is simply the sequence of highs and lows that price creates as it moves. That's it. But the pattern of those highs and lows tells you everything about who is in control — buyers or sellers.
In an uptrend, price creates Higher Highs (HH) and Higher Lows (HL). Each new push up goes higher than the last. Each pullback stops higher than the previous pullback. Buyers are in full control.
In a downtrend, price creates Lower Highs (LH) and Lower Lows (LL). Each rally stops lower than the last. Each drop goes deeper. Sellers are in full control.
This sounds simple — and it is. But 90% of retail traders don't actually use this properly. They try to buy in downtrends and sell in uptrends and wonder why they keep losing.
📌 Rule #1: Only take buy setups in bullish structure. Only take sell setups in bearish structure. Never fight the structure.
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// KNOWLEDGE CHECK
1. In a downtrend, price creates...
2. A BOS (Break of Structure) signals...
3. A ChoCH in a downtrend means...
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