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ICT Silver Bullet | Liquidity Sweep + FVG Strategy

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Overview

ICT Silver Bullet trades the reversal that follows a liquidity grab inside the three Silver Bullet hours. It waits for price to sweep a swing high or low, then enters on the first fair value gap that forms in the opposite direction, with a defined stop and a fixed reward-to-risk target.

How the strategy works
  • Liquidity levels: Confirmed swing highs and lows mark buy-side and sell-side liquidity. The most recent unswept level on each side is tracked.
  • Sweep sets the bias: When price trades through a swing high, the bias is short. When price trades through a swing low, the bias is long. The bias expires if no entry happens within the sweep window.
  • Session filter: Entries are only allowed during the Silver Bullet windows in New York time: 03:00–04:00, 10:00–11:00 and 14:00–15:00.
  • Entry: Inside a session, the first fair value gap that forms in the bias direction triggers an entry at the close of that bar. A bullish gap after a low sweep gives a long, and a bearish gap after a high sweep gives a short.
  • Stop: The stop goes beyond the sweep extreme or the first candle of the gap, whichever is further, plus a tick buffer.
  • Target: The target is a fixed reward-to-risk multiple of the stop distance, 2R by default.
  • One trade per sweep: The bias resets after each entry, and only one position is open at a time.


Features
  • Session shading: London, New York AM and New York PM each have their own colour.
  • Liquidity lines: the latest swing high and low are drawn as step lines.
  • Sweep markers: a dotted line runs from the swept level to the sweep bar, tagged BSL or SSL. Hover a tag for the level.
  • Premium and discount zones: a dealing range between the latest swing high and low, with an equilibrium line and stronger tints in the outer quarter of each side.
  • FVG boxes: a gap is boxed only when it forms in the bias direction inside a session, which is the gap the strategy trades.
  • Trade levels: entry, stop and target are plotted with green reward and red risk fills. LONG and SHORT labels show the prices on hover.
  • Info panel: session, bias, sweep time remaining, range position, current position and reward-to-risk.
  • Optional zone candle colouring, and every layer can be switched off.
  • Fully customisable colours.
  • Settings
  • Swing length: bars on each side needed to confirm a swing. Lower values create more levels and more sweeps.
  • Sweep valid for (bars): how long a sweep stays tradable.
  • Reward : risk: the target multiple.
  • Stop buffer (ticks): extra distance beyond the stop reference.
  • Display toggles and style colours.


Tips
  • Use a 1–5 minute chart on liquid futures or index symbols. The session logic works on intraday timeframes only, and a one-hour window has too few bars on higher ones.
  • Check the chart’s timezone and data. Sessions are fixed to New York time, so the chart needs intraday history covering those hours.
  • Start with the sweep markers. If you see no triangles or tags, lower the swing length. If you see sweeps but no trades, no gap is forming in a session after the sweep.
  • Tune risk first. Try different reward-to-risk values and stop buffers on the symbol you trade, and compare results across different date ranges rather than one.
  • Use the premium and discount zones as context. Longs from discount and shorts from premium are the cleaner reversals in ICT-style analysis. The script does not filter on this, so it is a discretionary read.
  • Set quantity for your instrument. The default is 25% of equity per trade, which is not suitable for every market or account size.


Warnings
  • This is not financial advice. It is an educational tool, and past performance does not predict future results.
  • Backtests are idealised. Entries fill at the close of the signal bar. Add realistic commission and slippage in the strategy properties, because both matter on short-term intraday systems.
  • Swing levels are confirmed late. A swing is only recognised after the swing length has passed, so the script reacts to levels with a delay.
  • No trailing stop or session exit. Stops and targets are fixed, and a trade can run past the end of the session window.
  • Results depend heavily on symbol, timeframe and date range. Small sample sizes can look better or worse than the real edge. Test on a wide period and forward-test before using real capital.
  • Only the first signal in each window is traded. Gaps that form after the position is open are ignored.
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