Key takeaways
The Inner Circle Trader’s YouTube lesson Trading Friday Sellside Under 1st Presented FVG, published 19 September 2025 and running 23 minutes, narrates an unverified live Nasdaq futures short built around a reclaimed first presented fair value gap, a small volume imbalance and sell-side liquidity near 24,735 after an already bullish week.
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The Inner Circle Trader’s YouTube lesson Trading Friday Sellside Under 1st Presented FVG, published 19 September 2025 and running 23 minutes, narrates an unverified live Nasdaq futures short built around a reclaimed first presented fair value gap, a small volume imbalance and sell-side liquidity near 24,735 after an already bullish week. ICT placed the protective stop above a nearby high, wanted candle bodies to remain below the gap while allowing wick probes, sought decisive downside displacement from the quadrant level and planned to move the stop above the swing high only after price traded below the quadrant and nearby low, then to break-even including commissions and fees only after the low was taken. He moved the stop early at 15 minutes 49 seconds because price lingered around the gap’s consequent encroachment, explicitly deviating from his plan. Friday context limited the target because he expected cooling into the weekend rather than a major reversal, whereas on Monday or Tuesday he says he would have been strongly bullish and adding to a long in the same area. ICT reports that 735 printed, the move reached 734 and he reduced part of the position at the objective, but no chart, order, fill, commission or result was independently verified. He rejects depth-of-market and Level 2 data as distractions, preferring price delivery, and concludes that shorts in a primarily bullish market should target available nearby liquidity rather than demand a deeper bearish objective. The article relies on automatic transcription with 235 segments, no captions and one low-confidence passage, so references including 24,735, 735, 737.5 and 734 should be checked against the original video.
How we researched this article
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 lesson mapped to this page is Trading Friday Sellside Under 1st Presented FVG, a first-party upload from The Inner Circle Trader published on Friday 19 September 2025 and running about twenty-three minutes. In it ICT narrates a live short-side session on Nasdaq futures, built around a reclaimed fair value gap, the sell-side liquidity resting underneath it, and the fact that the broader week had already moved higher.
No captions were published for this upload, so this article was written from an automatic transcription of the full original audio rather than from YouTube captions. The transcription mangles several specialist phrases and the price references, and those points are flagged rather than smoothed over. The reviewer read the timestamped transcript and did not see the charts, so no level, candle, order or fill is independently confirmed here. The positions and results described below are the speaker’s own account of his session, not verified performance.
ICT Friday Sellside Trade Setup
At 0:01 ICT says he is watching a reclaimed fair value gap and is getting the trade on, placing his protective stop above a nearby high and marking a lower objective. His stated sequence is for price to roll over, overlap the prior range and attack a low after first trading into the area he has annotated. He also explains a stop rule he follows deliberately: the stop only moves down to just above the swing high once price trades back below the quadrant level and that low, and not before (1:38).
He describes the 24,735 area as a suspect level (1:56), by which he means the structure beneath it looks like an established foundation with sell-side liquidity resting below. This is the same level he says he had flagged earlier in the day (9:05). The transcript is inconsistent about how the level is written, recording both “24-735” and a shortened “735”; both are treated here as references to the same area he is describing.
Why the First Presented FVG Mattered
At 3:52 he identifies what the transcription renders as the morning’s “first presented fair value gap”, formed after a long stretch of two-way, efficient rotation and a pop higher. He notes a small volume imbalance in the same area (3:48) and says he is deliberately not using a smaller adjacent low, because that imbalance sits above it. His preference, as elsewhere in his teaching, is for the imbalance created by the more obvious displacement.
That gap becomes the reference he wants price to respect. From 8:36 he walks through the test in terms of candle construction: wicks probing into the gap are tolerable to his read, while bodies establishing themselves above it would weaken it, and what he wants instead is decisive downside displacement away from the quadrant level he is watching. Later he tracks price around the consequent encroachment (the midpoint) of the gap (13:48), arguing that a failure to reach the upper boundary of the gap would show an unwillingness to trade back up into what he calls a premium array. When price does touch it, he updates the read: the next thing he wants is a rollover through the nearby low and toward the larger liquidity pool he has marked below the gap's low threshold (14:48).
Why Friday Limited the Sellside Trade Objective
ICT is explicit that he is not trying to pick the top of the market (6:47). At 6:54 he contrasts this session with how he would read the same decline on a Monday or Tuesday: earlier in the week he says he would be strongly bullish into that area and would be adding to a long, but because price had already travelled a long way during the week and it is Friday, he expects participants to cool off into the weekend (7:16). That reasoning is what leads him to treat the exposed low as low-hanging fruit rather than to forecast an extended reversal.
ICT Trade Confirmation and Stop Management
The conditions he repeats before becoming more defensive with the stop are all about how price leaves the reference area:
- Bodies should respect the gap while only wicks probe it (8:36).
- Price should leave the quadrant level decisively rather than loiter around it (9:25).
- The discount wick should be consumed by a strong down close instead of being left intact (18:05).
- The low is only taken first; the stop moves to break-even including commission costs and fees afterwards (11:05).
He then admits he did not follow his own plan. At 15:49 he says he moved the stop down earlier than intended because price was spending too long inside the consequent encroachment of the gap, and he frames the change as experience taking over and as a way of becoming indifferent to the outcome rather than hoping to be right. He is also candid that most viewers would probably not take this trade and would be studying the behaviour instead (11:26). One further point he makes about reading order flow is that he does not need depth-of-market or Level 2 data for this: he calls order-book detail a distraction and says he is reading whether price is being delivered up or down (18:24).
ICT Sellside Trade Targets in a Bullish Market
He reports that the 735 level printed (20:05), that the low of the move came in at 734 (20:59) (which he treats as the level being taken out) and that he peeled off part of the position into the objective (20:29). Those are statements made in the recording; an audio transcript cannot confirm fills, commissions or the outcome of the trade, and none of it is presented here as a verified result.
The closing lesson begins at 21:24. He contrasts leaving a limit order just above an obvious low with insisting on a deeper objective, and argues that when the market is primarily bullish, shorting and then demanding a lower exit than the structure supports is asking for more than is available; a more ambitious target suits a market that is itself bearish. His summary is that the useful skill is knowing what is possible and being content with it.
What the ICT Friday Trade Recording Proves
The transcript supports the sequence ICT narrates and the reasoning he gives for a modest Friday objective under the first presented fair value gap. It does not establish that the market moved for the reasons he describes, nor that the trade’s reported outcome is reproducible. No chart is verified in this article, so the gap boundaries, quadrant levels and candle behaviour are reported as he described them.
Because the source is automatic speech recognition, several terms need care. The gap phrase is rendered inconsistently (“first percentive”, “first perventive”, “the person that everybody got”) and is read here as the first presented fair value gap named in the title; “cell side” appears for sell-side; “death of market” for depth of market; and one passage mixes “buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency” into a garbled phrase. The price references (24,735, 735, 737.5 for the resting order and a low of 734) come from the same automatic transcription, and one short segment at about 9:56 was flagged as low confidence. Verify any figure against the video before relying on it.
Study the ICT Friday Trade on Your Chart
The practical part of this lesson is the documentation discipline around a discretionary decision: he states his stop rule before the move, states what would invalidate the read, and then narrates where he deviated from his own plan. The checklist below is an AI-generated study aid for that process. Fix the reference session, mark the first presented gap, keep the different readings of “sell-side under it” apart, and write the timeframe, invalidation and risk down before the session. It is not a chart of this session and not market data.
Watch the ICT Friday Sellside Under 1st Presented FVG Video
The lesson this page covers is a published upload from The Inner Circle Trader on YouTube: Trading Friday Sellside Under 1st Presented FVG, published Friday 19 September 2025. This BestProps article is independent educational commentary, not an official ICT lesson and not a verbatim transcript of the video.
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Verified ICT Friday Sellside and FVG References
These references come from the publisher’s own channel, official exchange and regulator documentation, and this site’s rules tracker. They support the session-timing, instrument and account-rule points below. They do not establish what was said, marked or traded in the mapped lesson.
Primary ICT Trade Source
The mapped lesson is a first-party upload titled “Trading Friday Sellside Under 1st Presented FVG” on the channel The Inner Circle Trader, published 19 September 2025, running 1,380 seconds, public and not unlisted.[1] Its description carries a CFTC Rule 4.41 hypothetical-performance disclaimer and no chapter marks, so the timestamp links above are the working index to the passages they summarise.
What ICT Traded and When the Cash Session Runs
CME Group’s education material describes equity index futures as cash settled contracts, the majority of which have quarterly expiration dates scheduled for March, June, September and December.[2] The session references in the recording are to the US cash-equity open: the NYSE lists its core trading session as 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time.[3] Nasdaq futures themselves trade well beyond those hours, so “morning” in a futures chart is a chart-session setting as much as a clock time.
Where ICT Traders Can Check Funded Account Restrictions
BestProps’ rules reference describes prop firm rules as the account conditions traders must follow to pass an evaluation, keep a funded account and request payouts, and lists daily loss limits, maximum drawdown, trailing drawdown, consistency requirements, payout buffers, news trading, weekend holds and position limits among the conditions that most often catch traders out.[4] A Friday session that is held into the weekend is exactly the kind of decision those terms govern, so confirm the current wording of your own firm’s conditions rather than copying anything described here.
Independent ICT Trading Material
ICT is an independent educator and is not affiliated with BestProps. Third-party transcripts, re-uploads and archive pages are unofficial unless they come from the publisher’s own channel, and no source listed here has been performance-tested for this article. Terms such as fair value gap, reclaimed fair value gap, consequent encroachment, quadrant, premium array, displacement, sell-side liquidity and order block are used on this page only as descriptive study terms from the general ICT vocabulary; none is presented as official, tested or free of repainting, and nothing here has been replayed or backtested. No source listed here endorses this article.
ICT Trade Sources
- [1] Trading Friday Sellside Under 1st Presented FVG (The Inner Circle Trader)
- [2] CME Group: What is an Index Future
- [3] NYSE: Holidays & Trading Hours
- [4] Best Props: Prop Firm Rules
Method note: no captions were available for this upload, so the article was written from the automatically transcribed English audio of the full recording (local speech-to-text, Whisper large-v3-turbo, complete audio, 235 segments, one short segment flagged low-confidence). That transcript is a rendering of speech rather than a verified document, and the reviewer did not see any chart in the recording, so every level, gap boundary, order price and result above is reported as spoken rather than confirmed against the screen. Nothing here is investment advice, a performance promise, or a recommendation to copy the trade described.
