ICT Mentorship 2023 Evolving ICT Silver Bullet Example Explained

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ICT Mentorship 2023 Evolving ICT Silver Bullet Example is a roughly ten-minute YouTube chart commentary showing ICT replace an initial short-entry zone near 4210 with a fresh one-minute imbalance at 4206.25 during his Silver Bullet window.

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ICT Mentorship 2023 Evolving ICT Silver Bullet Example is a roughly ten-minute YouTube chart commentary showing ICT replace an initial short-entry zone near 4210 with a fresh one-minute imbalance at 4206.25 during his Silver Bullet window. He builds a ten-contract short through six-contract and four-contract limit orders, avoids chasing when a large-range candle threatens to create a balanced price range, sets cancellation below 4203, reports all ten contracts filled with a 4208.25 stop, and targets sell-side liquidity plus the New Week Opening Gap high and its 4193.50 midpoint. Exits are layered as four contracts near the gap high, four at 4193.50, and two remaining, although captions later garble the split. ICT reports staged fills and calls the outcome a triple, but auto-generated captions and limited chart detail do not independently verify the orders, account, live or simulated status, costs, or result. The central lesson is to define entries and invalidation in advance, accept missing a move rather than chasing, redraw only after a replacement imbalance forms, and distribute exits across multiple targets, not to treat one discretionary example as evidence of a repeatable edge.

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In ICT Mentorship 2023 – Evolving ICT Silver Bullet Example, published on 22 May 2023 and running just over ten minutes, ICT narrates a short setup from start to finish over one-minute candles. The lesson's interest is not the direction. It is what he does when his first candidate entry area stops being usable.

The source used here is the auto-generated English caption track for that recording, read in full. It is a screen-recording commentary with frequent music markers and heavily garbled fragments, so several of his terms appear inconsistently and one closing phrase is unrecoverable. Those cases are noted below rather than reconstructed, and no chart coordinate, order or result has been independently checked.

ICT Silver Bullet Setup and Limit Orders

At 0:02 ICT says he will be looking at a short “this morning” and begins marking sell-side liquidity. At 0:43 he draws a rectangle he is watching and says it “might present the Silver Bullet for this morning,” with sell-side as the aim; at 0:50 he adds that he likes the idea of returning to the current opening gap's high and its consequent encroachment, which he immediately defines at 0:55 as simply the midpoint of that range.

He then builds the order rather than entering at market. At 1:16 he says he will use a limit order, at 1:29 places six contracts as the first limit with a stop he says should sit right above it, and at 1:46 states the goal: to build his typical ten contracts into the limit entry rather than “just marketing in.” At 1:57 he adds four more slightly below, giving ten contracts short if both fill.

Why ICT Delays the Silver Bullet Entry

The hesitation is the substantive part of the clip. At 2:16 ICT explains what concerns him: a large-range down-close candle to the left of the decline may combine with the imbalance he has marked to form a balanced price range, in which case price may not enter that area at all. His stated response at 2:36 is to wait for a later fair value gap, and at 2:41 he names the trade-off plainly: he runs the risk of missing the move, and it is better to miss it than to chase it.

He also rules out shorting where price already is. At 2:54 he says he would like to short the current area, but his stop would be at 4212 (3:02) (which he describes as more points of adverse movement than he wants to suffer), so at 3:09 he lets it go and waits for price to reach his order.

An invalidation condition follows at 3:27: if price trades below 4203, he says he will cancel the entire idea, because at that point the gap would be too far down for him to consider it. That level, like the 4212 stop, is his spoken figure attached to objects on a chart the captions cannot show.

ICT Silver Bullet Window and Liquidity Low

At 4:04 ICT notes that he is technically inside his ICT Silver Bullet time window (two or three minutes past 10) and that price has just tapped a low he had marked as a draw on liquidity. At 4:18 he says he is watching for a shallow drop of one or two ticks just below that low followed by a reaction, and at 4:30 mentions a dip below 4201.

He also acknowledges the discomfort of the situation directly. At 4:35 he says “this is how it is sometimes folks. It might run without you,” and that he is giving it the benefit of the doubt. He does not restate a time zone in this clip; the window is the one he has described elsewhere as his 10 o'clock Silver Bullet.

How the ICT Silver Bullet Setup Evolves

The mechanism is stated in two steps. At 4:48 ICT says that if the current one-minute candle closes and leaves the previous down candle without creating a fair value gap, he will adjust the rectangle down to that; at 4:55 he adds that in that case he expects the area he has shaded now never to be traded back into. At 5:11 he names the result: “kind of like an evolving Silver Bullet.”

He then identifies the replacement zone. At 5:30 he points out the low and the high of the new adjusted Silver Bullet and says it has evolved from the level he initially thought, around 4210; at 5:44 he gives the level he is watching in the new zone as 4206.25. At 6:14 he notes a shallow run of about one tick below the low he was aiming for and says that makes him more confident price will rise into the newly adjusted area before trading back down.

Reported ICT Silver Bullet Fill

At 6:48 ICT reports that the order filled and that all ten contracts are now short, with stops at 4208.25. At 7:10 he says what he wants to see next (price running quickly away from the gap) and calls that, in his opinion, confirmation that he is aligned with what he calls institutional order flow and that price wants to reprice down toward the opening gap's high and its consequent encroachment.

That last phrase is his interpretation of market behaviour. The caption track does not demonstrate institutional participation, and it contains nothing that would establish the pattern as repeatable.

ICT Silver Bullet Layered Exits

Rather than one target, ICT describes stacking buy limits to take the bulk of the move off. At 7:39 he takes four contracts off just below the opening gap's high; at 7:52 he measures the consequent encroachment at 4193.50 and takes four contracts off there; and at 8:03 he notes the remaining balance is two. The caption's own tally a few seconds later is garbled. At 8:17 it reads as “four two and four” while the contracts he has placed add to ten only as four, four and two, so the specific split of the final two contracts is left open here rather than assumed. At 8:30 he describes the arrangement as locking in a respectable profit if price reaches it, at relatively low risk.

What the ICT Silver Bullet Closing Sequence Shows

From about 9:17 ICT says he wants to see price work aggressively lower and draw back into the opening gap high, then sink toward the 4193.50 consequent encroachment. At 9:37 he reports the first profit filling and then a second, at 9:45 refers to the four remaining contracts, and at 9:50 calls it a “triple.” At 9:53 he closes by describing the clip as what an evolving Silver Bullet trade looks like; the same caption line ends in a garbled phrase that this article does not quote or guess at.

None of that closing sequence is verifiable from the source. The captions record what he said happened to the staged orders; they do not show enough chart detail to reconstruct the levels, and they cannot confirm a fill, a cost, the account the trades were placed in, or any net result. It is also not stated in this clip whether the activity was live or simulated. Nothing here should be read as a verified performance record, and no outcome is presented as repeatable.

ICT Silver Bullet Lessons From the Example

Short as it is, the recording models a few practices that do not depend on his vocabulary:

• Define the entry area in advance and let price come to it, rather than entering at the current market because the idea is convincing.
• State the cost of being wrong before the trade: here, that the required stop was wider than he was willing to accept at the nearer entry.
• Write down the condition that would end the idea (in this case trading below 4203) before it happens rather than while it is happening.
• Treat waiting as a decision with a price. He says missing the move is the acceptable outcome, not a failure to be fixed by chasing.
• Replace a plan only for a stated reason, and only once the replacement exists: the redraw waits for an actual one-minute imbalance rather than on a hunch.
• Stage exits against more than one reference instead of committing to a single target.

Two limits are worth stating explicitly, because the clip invites the opposite reading. First, a discretionary adjustment that worked once is not a rule: nothing here establishes that every new gap should replace an older one, and the adjustment is tied to the specific sequence he narrates. Second, the clip is a demonstration of planning, not evidence of edge. There is no sample, no costed result and no control.

This is independent educational commentary on a published recording. It is not investment advice, not official ICT material, and not a tested system; futures involve substantial risk and no analytical framework guarantees a result.

Watch the 2023 ICT Silver Bullet Recording

This article draws on the timestamped English captions of ICT Mentorship 2023 – Evolving ICT Silver Bullet Example, published 22 May 2023. The captions are auto-generated from a screen-recording commentary and garble several terms of art. His opening-gap term appears variously as “news opening Gap,” “newly coping Gap” and “newly opening get high,” and several spoken levels appear only as words (“forty two zero eight and a quarter”), so terms have been normalised only where the surrounding sentences make them unambiguous, and unrecoverable fragments are omitted rather than guessed at. The chart markup is the substance of the clip, so the recording is worth watching directly.

ICT Silver Bullet Source and Further Reading

• The primary source: the original 22 May 2023 evolving Silver Bullet clip Use the timestamp links above to compare each step with what he actually said.
• The Inner Circle Trader YouTube channel The publisher's own channel, where this clip and the Silver Bullet and opening-gap material it references are posted. Unofficial reuploads and summaries are not the source used here.
• YouTube’s “Embed videos & playlists” help page Platform documentation relevant to the disabled-embedding notice above.
• CFTC Learn & Protect The US regulator's investor-education and fraud-warning material. A general reference; it is not a statement that this recording or this article complies with, or violates, any particular rule.

This is independent educational commentary. It is not official ICT material, a tested trading system, or a claim that any reported result can be reproduced.