Intermediate📖 20 min read🏷 Analysis
DAILY BIAS FRAMEWORK
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The Most Important Decision of Every Trading Day -- Before Price Moves
Every professional ICT trader makes one critical decision before placing a single trade: which direction is price going today? This is called Daily Bias -- and getting it right means every entry you take during the day has the full force of institutional order flow behind it. Getting it wrong means you are fighting the algorithm every step of the way.
Daily bias is determined before the session opens -- from monthly down to daily timeframe alignment
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Daily bias is your directional conviction for the trading day -- determined from higher timeframe analysis before any session opens. It is the answer to: "Am I looking for longs today, shorts today, or neither?"
This is fundamentally different from how most retail traders operate. They open a chart when the session starts, see what price is doing in the moment, and decide direction on the spot. This is reactive trading -- and it consistently loses because you are making decisions based on the manipulation phase, not the institutional order flow direction.
ICT traders are proactive. They study the monthly chart, the weekly chart, and the daily chart before London opens. They identify the draw on liquidity, the institutional order flow direction, and the dealing range. By the time the session opens, the decision is already made. The session itself is just execution.
📌 Daily bias is determined BEFORE the session opens -- not during it. If you are deciding direction while the market is moving, you are already too late.
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1. Daily bias should be determined...
2. The True Daily Open in ICT is...
3. When should you trade with no bias?
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