Key takeaways
The Inner Circle Trader’s YouTube episode 2025 Storytellers Series NQ Review June 04, 2025 is a roughly fourteen minute forty-nine second NQ journaling lesson focused on writing an independent price narrative, finding one obvious daily move, and comparing annotations with ICT’s selective review.
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The Inner Circle Trader’s YouTube episode 2025 Storytellers Series NQ Review June 04, 2025 is a roughly fourteen minute forty-nine second NQ journaling lesson focused on writing an independent price narrative, finding one obvious daily move, and comparing annotations with ICT’s selective review. ICT says Monday’s targets, the low and midpoint or consequent encroachment of a daily imbalance, had delivered, with Friday’s high as a reference and the daily imbalance low as the higher-time-frame draw. For non-farm payroll week he favors fewer setups, says inexperienced traders can seek Monday opportunities, and warns that Wednesday and Thursday may show time distortion before Friday’s eight thirty a.m. Eastern release. He reports a Tuesday long from an inversion fair value gap and order block on the range’s discount side, plus a Wednesday short using timing and a five-minute inversion fair value gap toward sell-side liquidity, exiting just below the pool rather than holding for a deeper decline. One ASR-rendered level is 21,665 and requires audio verification. The closing outlook watched relative equal lows below and the daily imbalance’s upper quadrant above, while the article stresses that the transcript cannot verify chart markers, fills, position sizes, capital, or results.
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BestProps used document-based research from primary firm sources, checked September 24, 2026. The complete source list, scope, limitations, and commercial-state record appear near the end of this article.
The episode mapped to this article is 2025 Storytellers Series – NQ Review June 04, 2025 on the channel The Inner Circle Trader. It runs roughly fourteen minutes and forty-nine seconds. The watch page reports 889 seconds and the audio used for transcription measured 888.6 seconds. For readers searching ICT 2025 Storytellers Series NQ review June 04 2025, this article works from the recording’s spoken content and timestamps rather than from a keyword brief or a third-party outline.
Three limits apply throughout. The transcript was produced by automatic speech recognition of the full original audio rather than by checked captions, so specialised terms and numbers may be misrendered, and anything uncertain is flagged where it appears. The transcript records speech only, so chart annotations, margins and order tickets visible on screen cannot be independently confirmed from it. And every judgement about liquidity, bias or session behaviour in this article is ICT’s own interpretation as he spoke it, not an established fact about the market.
ICT 2025 Storytellers Series Focuses on Journaling
At 0:06 he states the purpose of the Storytellers series directly: it is about how a trader should journal, and specifically about building a narrative around bias, session bias and what he calls the draw on liquidity. He concedes that on first viewing the exercise looks like reviewing hindsight data, and he does not dispute that. His point is that reading price has to come before trading it. At 1:01 he narrows the beginner's task to a single obvious setup or move per day, and at 1:12 he recommends recording that in your own words as annotations on the chart: session, market, day, week, month, and whatever characteristics appear to repeat. His description of those recurring features is the most useful sentence in the opening passage. He says they tend to be time-based deliveries that respond to an obvious liquidity pool above or below the market according to a higher-time-frame bias.
At 8:04 he describes the videos themselves as training wheels. The intended loop is for a student to produce an independent annotation first, then watch the recording and compare the two accounts, and he is candid that his reviews are selective rather than exhaustive: at 8:37 he says he deliberately covers only a major draw or two each day instead of running a complete clinic on every price-delivery array available.
ICT 2025 Higher Time Frame Narrative for June 4
The chart portion opens at 2:10 with a back-reference. On Monday's instalment he had identified a down-closed candle as a bullish order block, described expecting price to trade down into it and then be sent back up, and named two objectives: the consequent encroachment of that candle's wick, which he said could be eyeballed at roughly the same place as the low of an imbalance, and the consequent encroachment of that imbalance. At 2:52 he says both had now delivered (one the previous session and one in the session under review). Readers should treat that as his account of his own prior call; the earlier instalment is a separate recording and was not re-checked for this page.
His second reference is a prior Friday's high. At 3:22 he notes that Tuesday opened and traded down immediately to that candle's high, and at 3:45 he explains why he rates that behaviour: when price trades down to a level and then trades back above the open, he considers it one of the strongest bullish sequences available when the prevailing bias already leans higher. On the hourly view from 4:59 onward he traces an imbalance that was revisited before price rallied, then says that once a prior high was exceeded the next movement was an immediate rebalance with the market gravitating toward the daily imbalance low (the level he describes at 6:05 as the draw on liquidity he had told viewers to expect on Monday).
Why ICT 2025 Was Not Calling a Market Top
From 3:59 he works through what happens if price leaves the imbalance he was watching: the next reference becomes another one, both candidates can be treated as inversion fair value gaps, and if that happens the relative equal highs above become suspect. He then states his position plainly. He is avoiding trying to pick a top. At 4:27 he addresses comments he had seen on X suggesting he was bearish or that his students were selling short, and answers them by pointing to Monday's video, where he says he had called for the conditions that were then in front of the market. That is a defensible thing to say and also an unverifiable one from this recording alone, since it rests on the earlier instalment.
How Payroll Week Changed the ICT 2025 Plan
The scheduling discussion at 6:24 is the most concrete guidance in the episode. He identifies the week as a non-farm payroll week and says he teaches students to look for setups on the Monday of such a week. He then pre-empts a common misreading: he says the claim that he tells people not to trade Mondays is wrong, and clarifies that the advice to avoid Mondays is aimed at brand-new or inexperienced students outside non-farm payroll weeks, while experienced traders can work any day with their own model. From 7:42 he generalises the point (his phrase is that day trading is not every-day trading), and at 7:54 he describes hunting a very small number of setups per week and waiting for them to form as liberating. Nothing in the recording tests the claim that particular weekdays are statistically better, and it is presented here as his teaching position rather than as a measured finding.
He applies that reasoning to the session under review. At 9:04 he describes the fifteen-minute chart as building sell-side liquidity after an imbalance was tapped and the midpoint missed, and from 9:26 he calls that behaviour time distortion, the condition he expects on the Wednesday morning of a non-farm payroll week. His conclusion is that Wednesday’s morning or afternoon may not be worth trading at all, and that Thursday tends to follow the same pattern, before the 8:30 a.m. Eastern release on the Friday resets the board. One aside is worth preserving because it cuts against the tidy version of the story: at 8:52, after noting that price stopped exactly at consequent encroachment, he adds that it is funny how it stopped right there and that it was probably random.
ICT 2025 Trades and Limits of the Evidence
He narrates two executions. The Tuesday trade is described from 12:54: an inversion fair value gap that also functioned as an order block on the discount side of the range, with a volume imbalance respected by candle bodies, an entry at the upper quadrant, and the bullish case resting on the expectation he had voiced on Monday that price would draw up to the low of the daily imbalance. He says the fill was shown on X, and that only a small portion of it was posted. The reviewed session’s own short is described from 9:50, where he says he watched a pool of clearly defined sell-side liquidity, used timing and a five-minute inversion fair value gap to enter short against it, and then, from 10:55, that he was content to exit just below the liquidity rather than hold for a further objective precisely because it was a non-farm payroll week. At 11:50 he calls one of those entries terrible placement in isolation, and says it was acceptable only because the sell-side pool looked so likely to be tagged. At 14:03 he says he could not hold that later, deeper run for the same calendar reason.
Caution: the transcript shows that he reports fills, not that any fill occurred. Reported entries, sizes and exits are his own narration of his own account, and captions cannot confirm an order ticket, a fill price, a position size or a net result.
He also makes a pointed claim about how that narration should be judged. From 11:02 he contrasts his approach with commentators who say they think they took a trade somewhere near a level and think their fill was around there, and says he will not claim a trade without showing the execution. That is a fair standard to state, and it is also one this page cannot enforce from a transcript. The executions he refers to are on a separate platform.
ICT 2025 Price Level and Key Caveat
One specific number appears in the session. From 13:34 he points to a price level he ties to a liquidity pool that was forming and reads the number aloud. The automatic transcript renders it as 21,665. That figure is reported here only because he stated it, with an explicit caution: it is a single ASR-rendered number, it belonged to one Nasdaq contract in one week in June 2025, and it should be checked against the audio before being quoted or used. Every other level in this article is described structurally (as a low, a midpoint, an upper quadrant or an imbalance) for the same reason, and the recording supplies no reliable basis for reproducing exact chart coordinates.
What ICT Watched After the June Session
The episode closes with an unfinished thought rather than a conclusion. From 14:17 he says he is watching relative equal lows ahead of the 6 p.m. open, that price could drop into them if it starts to work overnight, and that the upside reference remains the upper quadrant of the daily imbalance. At 14:23 he frames both directions as live possibilities, then signs off. Nothing in the recording establishes what price did afterwards, and this page does not attempt to fill that gap.
Using the ICT 2025 Episode for Trade Journaling
The lecture's own instructions translate into a workable note-taking routine, and it is worth keeping the six steps in the order shown above. Write the opening context first (instrument, session, timeframe and what the review is trying to establish). Then list only the reference points the speaker actually names, in his wording. Describe the price sequence as a sequence rather than a prediction. Record the execution discussion separately from commentary, and mark clearly when a fill is being reported rather than shown. Capture risk comments, including any statement about abstaining or exiting early. Finish with the closing lesson, if there is one; in this episode the final section is an open question about the next session rather than a verdict, and a journal should say so.
The habit the recording is really pushing is more demanding than the schedule advice: write your version down before you watch, and then let the two accounts disagree. At 8:23 he anticipates that comparison producing friction, and says there will be things he leaves out. That expectation is the most transferable part of the episode, and it does not depend on accepting any of his chart readings.
ICT 2025 Storytellers Series NQ Review Video
The recording mapped to this article is 2025 Storytellers Series – NQ Review June 04, 2025, published on the channel The Inner Circle Trader on 4 June 2025 with a runtime of about 889 seconds (14:49). Timestamp links on this page point into that recording.
Watch the original review on YouTube
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ICT 2025 Storytellers Series Sources and Checks
Four references support this page: the recording and the transcript made from it, the first-party announcement post the page links, a third-party archive page covering the following session, and the exchange operator’s own contract specification for the instrument named in the title. Nothing on this page was tested, traded or replayed on a chart, and no source listed here endorses this article.
ICT Recording and Transcript
This article was written from the audio of 2025 Storytellers Series – NQ Review June 04, 2025 on the channel The Inner Circle Trader.[1] The watch page reports a runtime of 889 seconds, and the audio used for transcription was measured at 888.641 seconds, so the transcript covers the full recording rather than a fragment.[1] The speech was transcribed by local automatic speech recognition, which is why the imbalance terms, the instrument references and the single numeric level mentioned above are flagged as uncertain, and why no chart coordinate from the session is reproduced on this page.[1] Timestamps in the body are the transcriber’s own, accurate to the alignment of automatic timestamps rather than to human-reviewed caption timings, and one timestamp in the body is given as a range start rather than a single word.[1] The title and the transcript both place the reviewed session on 4 June 2025, and the same date appears on the upload; a separate recording time is not established by the transcript.[1]
ICT First Party Announcement
The page links the post published through the X account @I_Am_The_ICT.[2] The URL resolved on 14 September 2026, but X refused the automated request used to read it, so its body was not re-read for this revision and nothing on this page depends on its wording beyond the fact that an announcement for the episode exists.[2]
2025 Archive for the Following Session
The ICT Archivist entry for 5 June 2025 is a third-party summary, not the presenter’s notes and not an official ICT publication.[3] Read on 14 September 2026, it describes itself as building on the June 4 video where key levels were posted, reports the same non-farm payroll week framing and the same daily imbalance levels, and adds that new traders were advised to stop trading by about 7:00 a.m. Eastern ahead of the Friday release.[3] Those are the page’s own statements about what its author watched; it is cited here as an independent third party describing the same session, not as independent evidence for ICT’s market claims.[3]
ICT Instrument Details From the Exchange
The title of the recording uses the ticker NQ. The exchange operator’s own specification page describes E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures as a product giving exposure to the Nasdaq-100 Index, a modified capitalisation-weighted index of 100 large-cap companies. That is all the page is used for here: identifying what the instrument named in the title is.[4] The recording itself does not discuss contract specifications, and nothing on this page asserts a contract month or a tick value from it.[4]
Untested ICT Material and Limitations
Terms used on this page (draw on liquidity, order block, imbalance, consequent encroachment, inversion fair value gap, volume imbalance, time distortion, upper and lower quadrant, premium and discount) are ICT's own descriptive vocabulary.[1] Any ICT, smart-money or third-party indicator, script, tutorial or strategy referred to anywhere on this page is unofficial unless a first-party ICT publication states otherwise; none is presented as official, tested or free of repainting, and no indicator, script, strategy or account was tested, replayed or measured for this article.[1] The claim that particular weekdays or sessions offer an advantage is his teaching position from the recording and is not presented here as a tested finding.[1] No brokerage, funding or prop-firm rule is quoted, because the recording makes no claim about any firm's requirements.[1]
ICT 2025 Sources
- [1] YouTube: 2025 Storytellers Series – NQ Review June 04, 2025 – The Inner Circle Trader (primary recording; page metadata read 14 September 2026: runtime 889 seconds; audio measured at 888.641 seconds and transcribed locally by automatic speech recognition; embedded player reported as disabled by the video owner)
- [2] X: The Inner Circle Trader (@I_Am_The_ICT) announcement post already linked in the article body (first-party account; URL resolved 14 September 2026 but the post body was not re-read because X refused the automated request; cited only as the announcement)
- [3] ICT Archivist: 2025 Storytellers Series – NQ Futures June 05, 2025 (third-party summary page describing the following session and referring back to the June 4 video; read 14 September 2026; not an official ICT publication)
- [4] CME Group: E-mini Nasdaq-100 Futures Contract Specs (official exchange product page; read 14 September 2026; cited only to identify the instrument named in the recording’s title)
BestProps is not affiliated with The Inner Circle Trader, ICT Archivist or CME Group, and no source listed here endorses this article, this site or any setup. No forward-looking statement, historical price level, forecast or backtest result is presented on this page, and nothing here reports a measured result or promises an outcome. Where the recording reports a trade, it is recorded as the speaker’s own narration of his own account and not as verified performance.