Lessons 1 through 5 gave you the individual pieces — structure, liquidity, order blocks, gaps, and the session cycle. This lesson combines them into the named, repeatable setups ICT teaching actually trades, with a full walkthrough of the most commonly cited one: the 2022 Model.
The Named ICT Models
| Model | What it looks for |
|---|---|
| Judas Swing | An early, false move at the session open that sweeps liquidity before the real move begins |
| Silver Bullet | An FVG entry traded inside a narrow time window — commonly 10:00–11:00am NY time |
| Turtle Soup | A false breakout of a prior high/low that reverses — a term borrowed from Linda Raschke's pre-ICT trading system |
| Unicorn Model | A breaker block and a fair value gap overlapping at the same zone — higher confluence than either alone |
| 2022 Model | Sweep of an old high/low → CHoCH confirmation → entry on the retracement FVG or order block |
| Market Maker Buy/Sell Model (MMBM/MMSM) | A full accumulation-manipulation-distribution-continuation cycle mapped to a directional bias |
| Venom Model | A less-standardized setup combining a liquidity run with an FVG entry |
| Smart Money Reversal (SMR) | A general label for a liquidity sweep immediately followed by a structure shift the other way |
| 2022 Model | Silver Bullet | Unicorn Model | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trigger | Sweep of old high/low | Time window, not a sweep | Breaker + FVG overlap |
| Confirmation | CHoCH required | FVG forms in-window | Confluence, not sequence |
| Entry zone | Resulting FVG or order block | The FVG itself | The overlapping zone |
| Timeframe | Typically 15m–1H | 1m–5m, 10–11am NY | Any, most cited on 15m–4H |
Trade Walkthrough: The 2022 Model, Sweep to Entry
2022 Model — Sweep, CHoCH, Retracement Entry (Illustrative Example)
- Old low identified — 59.3, an unswept swing low from early July, the standing draw on liquidity.
- The sweep — July 8 pushes to 58.7, clears the old low, then closes back at 58.9 — immediate rejection.
- CHoCH confirmation — July 10 closes at 60.2, decisively breaking the most recent lower high and confirming the structure has shifted from down to up.
- Retracement entry — July 12–13 pulls back into the FVG/order block left by the July 9–10 rally (the 59.6–59.9 zone), holding and closing at 59.9 on July 13.
- Entry — on the July 13 hold, stop below the retracement zone (59.5), targeting the next external liquidity above (61.0+).
Silver Bullet and Turtle Soup — The Time-Boxed and the Borrowed
Two of the models are worth knowing apart from the 2022 Model's sequence-based approach:
A time-boxed setup, not a sequence-based one — the entry criterion is largely "does an FVG form inside the 10–11am NY window," independent of whether a sweep or CHoCH happened first. Lesson 8 covers the killzone timing this model depends on.
Not originally an ICT term — it comes from Linda Raschke's pre-ICT trading system, predating SMC/ICT vocabulary entirely. The idea (a false breakout that reverses) overlaps heavily with a plain liquidity sweep from Lesson 2, described in older language.
Do I need to master all 8 models before trading SMC/ICT?
No. The 2022 Model covers the same core sequence (sweep → CHoCH → entry) that most of the others are variations of. Learn that one model well first — Silver Bullet only adds a timing constraint, and the Unicorn Model only adds a confluence requirement, on top of the same underlying pieces.
What's the actual difference between an SMR and a 2022 Model entry?
Smart Money Reversal (SMR) is the general, looser label — sweep followed by any structure shift. The 2022 Model is a specific version of an SMR with an additional required step: entering specifically on the retracement into the resulting FVG or order block, not just on the CHoCH itself.