TRU - Cookin w ICT

Executive Summary

A five-hour Trader Roundup special, 'Cookin w ICT', with Inner Circle Trader Michael as guest and Pitmunch co-hosting. Pitmunch opens with her best trading week since starting in 2023, built on a switch from NQ to crude oil, one trade a day Monday to Wednesday, then no trades at all, sizing up from one MCL contract to CL. ICT then teaches for hours: order blocks, fair value gaps, second-stage reaccumulation and distribution, the unicorn model, turtle soup, SIBI and consequent encroachment, the 9:30 opening range gap and the silver bullet model. Funded account challenges come up, with ICT saying he already knows why a listener lost money on one, and he asks whether 6% a month would be enough reason for 99% of listeners to learn trading, framing it as the basis of compound interest. His recurring point is that traders chase precision that does not exist: keep it simple, know the plot, and give yourself time to learn properly.

💡 Discussion Highlights & Key Takeaways

• [00:00] Trader Roundup special edition 'Cookin w ICT' opens with co-host Pitmunch, who says this was her best trading week since she started in 2023.
• [00:00] Pitmunch transitioned from NQ to crude oil, starting with one MCL contract and sizing up to CL, taking one trade a day Monday to Wednesday and no trades Thursday or Friday.
• [00:00] She contrasts NQ as unreliable with oil as a consistent, reliable partner, and says sizing up removed her stress rather than adding to it.
• [00:00] Guest Michael, known as ICT (Inner Circle Trader), joins and discusses order blocks, accumulation and manipulation on 1-minute, 5-minute and 30-minute charts.
• [1:28:36] ICT stresses recognizing second-stage reaccumulation and distribution, which can be nailed down if you know what time the market does what.
• [1:28:36] Value gaps are discussed as not limited to two-stage reaccumulation and distribution, with price able to flutter through levels multiple times.
• [1:28:36] A listener says that if he worked all year he could not make what Pitmunch made in 15 minutes, and ICT says no one is causing him to win, the work is his own.
• [2:20:37] Funded account challenges are discussed, with ICT saying he already knows why a listener lost money on one.
• [2:20:37] Swing points form over three candles generally, ICT explains, and traders should filter markets rather than digest multiple videos.
• [2:20:37] The opening range gap is defined: the difference between the 9:30 Eastern open in stock index futures and the previous day's 4:15 p.m. settlement.
• [2:56:20] ICT asks whether 6% a month would be enough reason for 99% of listeners to want to learn trading, framing it as the basis of compound interest.
• [2:56:20] Every business expects losses, he says, and a loss should not take away bill money.
• [2:56:20] A caller named Bobby is told to get straight to his question, and ICT says aiming for a fixed percentage return is the compounding basis.
• [3:38:18] ICT walks through wicks, delta and SIBI, a sell-side imbalance buy-side inefficiency, and consequent encroachment measured at the halfway distance of a wick.
• [3:38:18] He says the community chases levels of precision that do not exist, and to keep it simple and know the plot.
• [3:38:18] Gold and silver are discussed, with ICT noting the continuous oil contract did not do what the front-month December contract did.
• [4:28:14] Turtle soup is explained: it is not always a complete washout and can be traded down to just a short-term swing low.
• [4:28:14] ICT says traders need time and patience and to give themselves time to learn properly, and that consistency applied to anything is what matters.
• [4:28:14] The Space closes with the host saying he really enjoyed the episode, after five hours of ICT teaching.

About this X Space Audio Recording

This audio recording was captured from TRU - Cookin w ICT, an X (formerly Twitter) Space hosted by Kitt (@ICT_Concepts). The broadcast went live on 2026-10-23 18:58 with an active running time of approximately 5h 4m.

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