Where Is Price Going Before It Arrives -- The Most Powerful ICT Concept
This lesson explains concepts commonly taught in ICT/SMC trading education and presents them as frameworks to study and test. Chart patterns cannot independently prove institutional intent, future price delivery, or profitability. Examples and rules are educational, not trading advice.
Read our editorial standards āThe Draw on Liquidity (DOL) is the concept that separates traders who anticipate from traders who react. While retail traders wonder "where will price go?" after it has already moved, ICT traders identify the next liquidity target BEFORE price reaches it. This is not prediction -- it is understanding the algorithmic sequence that governs all price delivery.

The Draw on Liquidity is always the next unmitigated liquidity pool -- price is magnetically drawn toward it
1. The Draw on Liquidity is always...
2. External Range Liquidity (ERL) refers to...
3. The correct DOL trade sequence is...