ICT January 22 2025 Live Execution Forex GBPUSD London Macro

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In this 8:43 recording, ICT walks through a GBP/USD London-session idea on a demo account: a sell-side liquidity raid, upward displacement and a market-structure shift, then entries around a reclaimed fair value gap with the stop below the midpoint of an inversion fair value gap. He reports adding on a retracement, taking partials into a nearby buy-side pool and leaving a final limit that he says filled near the close. The explicit disclosure at 3:51 is the most important line in the video: this is not market replay, but it is a demo or paper trade with no brokerage funds. Chart prices, order types, position size and any net result are not established here, and his description of the market as algorithmically delivered is his interpretation, not a verified fact.

How we researched this article

BestProps used document-based research from primary firm sources, checked September 14, 2026. The complete source list, scope, limitations, and commercial-state record appear near the end of this article.

Editorial methodology Report a correction

Everything below comes from an automatically generated transcript of the recording’s own audio, not from YouTube captions and not from watching the chart. The recording was uploaded on 22 January 2025 at 01:39:39 Pacific time, which is 09:39:39 UTC the same day. London was on GMT and New York on EST that date, a five-hour offset; the transcript itself does not name a chart timezone, so the clock windows below are reported as he gives them.

What this GBP/USD session demonstrates

The recording opens at 0:10 on a GBP/USD London-session chart. At 0:19 he describes a raid on sell-side liquidity followed by displacement to the upside and a shift in market structure, and says his eye is on a short-term high and an above-market imbalance as the first draw at 0:26. He places the setup inside what he calls a 2:50–3:10 a.m. macro window at 0:37, a recurring time reference in his framework, and states at 0:50 that he is buying inside a reclaimed fair value gap.

A quiet home trading desk in the early morning: a monitor showing an unlabelled candlestick chart with a few horizontal level lines, an open notebook with faint pencil lines, a pen, a plain mug and a small analogue clock beside closed blinds

His stated objective at 1:34 is a move just above the 1:30 a.m. high, which he treats as possible rather than required, and he calls the nearer imbalances low-hanging fruit. When price returns to what he calls the 2:30 area he says at 2:05 that he bought more. The structure of the lesson is visible here: entries are organised around price-delivery areas the recording itself displays, not around a claim that every available target must be reached.

Risk placement and nearby objectives

From 2:45 he turns to an inversion fair value gap and says he wants price to hold above its midpoint, which he calls consequent encroachment. At 2:56 he notes that his stop sits in the lower half of that gap. In his framing the shaded area is not only an entry reference: continued respect for the midpoint supports the bullish scenario, while deeper movement through it would undermine the immediate premise.

His first objective is the buy-side pool that formed around 2:30 a.m., described at 2:31, followed by the lower boundary of an overhead imbalance. At 3:22 he describes the delivery he expects in language that asserts an algorithm is firing off continuous higher prices regardless of buying and selling pressure. That is his characterisation of how the market behaves, not something the transcript demonstrates, and the recording itself later concedes that current forex ranges are very small.

Demo-account disclosure and trade management

At 3:51 he says the presentation is not market replay, and at 3:59 that it is a demo or paper trade, adding at 4:06 that he has no funds in a forex brokerage account. That disclosure is essential context for everything else in the video: it is an educational demonstration, and screenshots or labels shown inside it are the presenter’s own material rather than audited fills. He also addresses the obvious objection at 4:16 with the remark that the framework no longer works in forex, before explaining at 4:25 that the ranges were simply too small at the time.

As price advances he discusses reducing exposure rather than holding everything for the furthest target. At 5:54 he points to what he calls an immediate rebalance, a return toward a recent one-minute candle, and at 6:15 he says he bought one more. He reports another partial at 7:20 and explains at 7:27 that he is taking it because ranges are narrow and he does not intend to watch the whole London session. The remainder is left to a limit order at the nearby target, which he says filled at 8:29, closing at 8:36 with the claim that his algorithm still works in forex.

How to read this recording

Three layers are worth keeping apart while watching it. First, what the presenter states: the raid, the structure shift, the gap entries, the stop beneath the inversion gap’s midpoint, the partials and the reported final fill. Second, what a chart with the same timezone and settings would actually show at each of those moments. Third, your own interpretation of whether the sequence worked for reasons he describes or for other reasons entirely.

The recording supports the first layer and cannot settle the second or third: the transcript carries his spoken accounts but no prices, order types, position size or account result, and the demo disclosure removes any claim to real-money performance even before the missing records are considered. What it does offer is a documented sequence – directional thesis, retracement zones, invalidation level, partial exits toward an attainable objective – in a session the presenter himself calls difficult because of narrow forex ranges at the time.

Three-panel schematic: a TIME panel with two analog clocks labelled plus-zero and minus-five joined by an arrow, a CHECK panel with a magnifying glass over an empty grid, and a LABEL panel with a clipboard holding three tick boxes, one ticked — Three steps before treating a dated session as evidence: convert the clock times between London and New York, check the claim against a real chart and calendar, then label each statement as stated live, visible on the chart or retrospective. The grid in the middle panel is deliberately empty – this diagram carries no prices, no order records and no results. Original schematic artwork drawn for this article.

Sources and checks for the 22 January 2025 GBP/USD session

Five references support this article. Four were already carried by this page and are retained because they are first-party or original: the recording, the channel that published it, the time-zone database behind the London and New York offsets, and the CFTC rule text whose simulated-performance disclaimer appears on the recording’s own description. One is added here, YouTube’s documentation of the uploader setting that blocks the embed. None of them substitutes for watching the chart, and no source here was used to assert a price, an order or a result.

What the transcription does and does not establish

The source material behind the timestamps is a local automatic speech recognition of the recording’s full audio, not YouTube captions and not a human-verified transcript. The recogniser is inconsistent on this speaker’s shorthand: spans rendered as “CIVI”, “SIVI”, “Sibi” and “BISI” cannot be reliably distinguished, so the article uses the broader descriptions the surrounding words support, such as a buy-side imbalance or a bullish fair value gap, rather than asserting a specific label. It also renders “fair vega” and “fair bay gap”, which read as fair value gap, and gives clock windows as “250 AM 310 AM” and “350, 410”, read here as 2:50–3:10 a.m. and 3:50–4:10 a.m.

The transcript cannot establish chart prices, position size, order types, stop levels, fills or any net result, and it cannot verify that the upload date is also the trading date. Where this article says ICT did something, it means the recording says he did it.

An editorial note on what was replaced

An earlier version of this draft stated that no original recording could be located, that the recording’s status as an official Inner Circle Trader broadcast remained unconfirmed, and that even describing the event as an official live execution was unverified; its excerpt repeated that no available source verified the session. That framing is false against the first-party upload mapped to this article, and it has been removed rather than annotated. What replaced it is a transcript-grounded account of what the 8:43 recording actually contains: the sell-side raid and displacement thesis, the reclaimed and inversion fair value gaps and the stop placement he describes, his explicit demo-or-paper-account disclosure, the partial exits and the final fill he reports, and his own remarks about whether the framework applies to forex. Claims that could not be established from the transcript were left out, including any net result. The retained images were left exactly as they were; their alt text and captions describe a generic verification schematic and remain accurate for this article.

The mapped recording, and what its watch page reports

Re-read on 14 September 2026, the watch page for the mapped upload carries the title above, attributes it to the channel The Inner Circle Trader (youtube.com/@InnerCircleTrader, channel ID UCtjxa77NqamhVC8atV85Rog), reports 206,272 views and 523 seconds of runtime, and returns a playability status of OK with no unlisted or private flag.[1] The canonical channel’s own upload list is the first-party record of what was published and when, and it takes precedence over any directory, repost or third-party archive page.[2] The description on that page carries the standard simulated-or-hypothetical performance disclaimer headed with CFTC Rule 4.41. The rule provides that such performance may not be presented unless accompanied by a prescribed statement, prominently disclosed in immediate proximity when the presentation is not oral.[4] Nothing here asserts whether the upload or this page satisfies any regulatory requirement, or that any performance shown is verified; the reference is listed because the recording is a demo and the article says so.

The clock conversion used here

The IANA time zone database is the reference behind the London and New York offsets used in this article: on 22 January 2025 New York was on EST (UTC−5) and London was on GMT (UTC+0), a five-hour difference.[3] The database defines offsets and daylight-saving rules; it does not state which time zone any chart in the recording was set to, and the transcript does not name one either.

What YouTube’s own documentation says about embedding

The saved player for the mapped upload was loaded from a BestProps origin and clicked on 14 September 2026, and the player itself reported “Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner” alongside a Video unavailable notice, with the playback time never advancing past zero. YouTube’s help page documents the uploader-side control that produces that state: to stop others embedding a video, the uploader opens YouTube Studio, selects Content, then Details, then SHOW MORE, and unchecks the box next to “Allow embedding” before saving.[5] A blocked embed is an ordinary platform setting, which is why this article links out instead of reserving a player it cannot play. No owner restriction beyond that message is inferred.

Unofficial and untested material

Any ICT, SMC or third-party indicator, script, spreadsheet, note set or social-media summary mentioned by this article or by the material it links to is unofficial unless it comes from the publishing channel’s own upload page, and none is presented as official, tested or free of repainting. No performance test, backtest, win rate, drawdown figure or account result is claimed anywhere in this article, and none of the references above was used to produce a signal, a forecast or a level.

Leveraged currency and futures trading involves substantial risk and is not suitable for everyone. The session described here was presented on a demo or paper account. This article is educational, reports no verified outcome, and is not individualized financial advice.

Research and disclosure

Research basis: Document-based research. Sources checked: September 14, 2026. Freshness: Current for the recorded review window.

Scope: Independent, transcript-grounded write-up of one public Inner Circle Trader recording, the 22 January 2025 GBP/USD London session video (video q5lz5594dpE; its watch page read 2026-09-14 reports the channel The Inner Circle Trader, a runtime of 523 seconds, an upload and publication timestamp of 2025-01-22T01:39:39-08:00, and page metadata reporting isPrivate false, isUnlisted false and playability OK), together with the four reference documents the article's own caveats depend on: the publishing channel's own upload list, the IANA time zone database behind the London and New York offsets, the eCFR text of 17 CFR 4.41 whose simulated-performance disclaimer appears in the recording's own description, and the platform's help page for the uploader-side embedding control. The article is limited to what the presenter says in that recording as rendered by an automatic transcript: the sell-side liquidity raid and upward displacement, the reclaimed and inversion fair value gaps, the 2:50 to 3:10 a.m. window he names, the stop he places below the inversion gap midpoint, the positions he says he added, the partial exits he reports and the final fill he says he got. Every statement of that kind is attributed to him at a cited timestamp, and his own disclosure that the presentation is a demo or paper account with no brokerage funds is carried in the article.

Direct sources: YouTube: January 22, 2025 – Live Execution (backslash) Forex GbpUsd London Macro – The Inner Circle Trader (mapped recording; watch page read 2026-09-14: title as given apart from the single backslash the platform title carries between Execution and Forex, channel The Inner Circle Trader, channel ID UCtjxa77NqamhVC8atV85Rog, runtime 523 seconds, upload and publication timestamp 2025-01-22T01:39:39-08:00, isPrivate false, isUnlisted false, playability OK, and a description carrying the CFTC Rule 4.41 simulated-performance disclaimer); YouTube: The Inner Circle Trader – official channel (channel ID UCtjxa77NqamhVC8atV85Rog; the channel's own upload list is the first-party record of what it published and when; read 2026-09-14); IANA: Time Zone Database (tz / zoneinfo; the reference behind the London and New York offsets used here, verified for 22 January 2025 as London GMT UTC+0 against New York EST UTC-5, a five-hour difference; read 2026-09-14); eCFR: 17 CFR 4.41, Advertising by commodity pool operators, commodity trading advisors, and the principals thereof (provides that the performance of a simulated or hypothetical account may not be presented unless accompanied by a prescribed statement; read 2026-09-14); YouTube Help: Embed videos and playlists (documents the uploader-side control behind a blocked embed, Content then Details then SHOW MORE then uncheck Allow embedding, and states that embedders must provide a Referer header; read 2026-09-14)

Material limitations: Grounded in automatic speech recognition of the recording's audio rather than human-checked captions, so the speaker's shorthand is misrendered in places; the article discloses this and uses broader descriptions instead of asserting a specific label. No chart, price scale or annotation shown in the recording was inspected, so no price, level, order type, position size, fill or result is established, and the article presents none of them as verified. The recording is a demo or paper account presentation, so it carries no real-money performance even before the missing records are considered, and his spoken account of a fill is reported as his narration rather than as an audited execution. The watch page is a third-party platform page that can be renamed, re-dated, made private, unlisted or removed at any time, and the view count it reports moves continuously, so it is stated with the date it was read. Loading the platform's embed surface for this upload with a BestProps referer on 2026-09-14 returned a Video unavailable notice carrying the line that playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner, with a Watch on YouTube prompt and no playback progress, so no cause beyond that message is asserted. Nothing here is a tested system, a backtest, an audited performance record or evidence of repeatable results, and the clock offsets named rely on the time zone database rather than on any statement in the recording about the chart's own time zone. This page does not report first-hand account purchase, trading, support, identity-check, or payout testing.

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ICT January 22 2025 Live Execution Forex GBPUSD London Macro: Demo Session Notes