Key takeaways
The Inner Circle Trader on YouTube reviews an unnamed instrument short from the April 14, 2026 Asian session, combining a higher-timeframe premium wick and its consequent encroachment midpoint, two buy-side liquidity sweeps, a roughly nine fifty to ten ten macro window, and a one-minute bearish fair value gap.
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The Inner Circle Trader on YouTube reviews an unnamed instrument short from the April 14, 2026 Asian session, combining a higher-timeframe premium wick and its consequent encroachment midpoint, two buy-side liquidity sweeps, a roughly nine fifty to ten ten macro window, and a one-minute bearish fair value gap. ICT describes adding inside the gap, taking multiple partial exits below lows, adding again during a retracement, and closing the remainder with a limit order below another low, while choosing a closer downside objective because conditions seemed volatile and fickle rather than holding for the deepest liquidity. Price later reached a daily fair value gap, reclaimed it bullishly, and rallied, making the short tactical within a broader bullish context. The 10 minutes 44 seconds recording was uploaded April 16, 2026, but it provides no instrument, chart time zone, exact prices, independently verified executions, or confirmed result, and its concepts remain subjective educational commentary rather than evidence of a repeatable edge.
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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.
In ICT 2026 Asian Session Short Review \ April 14, 2026, ICT presents a brief retrospective of a short setup he says he traded during Tuesday evening’s Asian session. The video was uploaded on April 16, 2026. His explanation combines a higher-timeframe wick, buy-side liquidity, a time-based “macro,” and lower-timeframe fair value gaps to frame the idea.
This is ICT’s interpretation of the market rather than independent evidence that these concepts provide a repeatable trading edge. The recording does not name the traded instrument or speak exact price levels aloud, and the narration cannot verify the chart’s prices, the displayed executions, or any result beyond what ICT describes.
ICT Asian Session Short Setup Context
ICT begins by placing the setup within a market that had experienced several up-close days and a strong rally. Despite that bullish background, he identifies a reason to consider a temporary short rather than assume that price must continue higher immediately.
At 1:24, he focuses on a wick from a higher-timeframe range. He describes this wick as a “premium array” while price approaches it. In his framework, a premium area can be examined for a possible sell setup even when the broader market is bullish.
He then marks a small gap between the high of one candle and the low of another. At 2:09, he discusses this area as a potential inversion fair value gap associated with a higher-timeframe turning point. He also treats the wick itself like a gap and divides it using a midpoint, which he calls consequent encroachment.
The resulting premise was conditional: if price rallied into the wick and approached its midpoint or another nearby level, that area might produce a reaction. ICT was not presenting the higher-timeframe wick alone as an automatic short signal.
ICT Asian Session Liquidity and Macro Timing
ICT moves to a one-minute chart at 3:49 and introduces what he calls a “Turtle Soup type scenario.” In ICT terminology, this generally refers to watching price move beyond a prior high or low and then evaluating whether that apparent breakout will reverse. Here, his focus is on highs that he labels buy-side liquidity.
The central timing filter appears at 4:21. ICT emphasizes the period from approximately 9:50 to 10:10, calling it a macro. According to his review, price first moved above one pool of buy-side liquidity and then entered this time window while above an earlier high. He characterizes that sequence as two stages of buy-side liquidity being taken.
Within that context, ICT identifies an up-close candle that he uses to define a bearish fair value gap. His short thesis therefore rests on several elements occurring together:
- A rally into a higher-timeframe wick or premium area.
- Price reaching the wick’s midpoint region, described as consequent encroachment.
- Prior highs being exceeded and treated as buy-side liquidity.
- The activity occurring around the 9:50–:10 macro.
- A lower-timeframe bearish fair value gap used to frame execution.
ICT Asian Session Short Downside Targets
Beginning around 5:56, ICT explains how he considered potential objectives below the entry area. He identifies a nearby liquidity pool but regards it as too shallow. He then points to a lower swing and intervening gaps as more useful objectives.
ICT says he initially wanted a deeper low, but adjusted his objective because he considered the prevailing price action volatile and “fickle.” He therefore chose a closer low. This is an important part of the review: the target was not based solely on the furthest visible liquidity. His stated assessment of current conditions influenced which objective he selected.
ICT Asian Session Short Execution and Management
ICT says the complete trade recording, including entries, was posted separately on his X feed. That post was not read for this article, so nothing from it is described here. In this YouTube review, he adds execution markers to the chart and argues that they represent actual executions rather than market replay. That claim is made around 7:45, but it cannot be independently established from the spoken account or from a chart this article did not view.
At 8:28, ICT says he added to the position as price traded into the bearish fair value gap. He then describes price moving lower, leaving a small inefficiency, taking a swing low, retracing into a gap, and continuing downward after candle bodies moved outside an inversion fair value gap.
His management involved multiple partial exits rather than one all-or-nothing target. Around 9:37, he describes taking a partial after price moved below a low, adding once more inside a gap, and exiting another portion near the low of that gap. He says a final limit order closed the remaining position below another annotated low.
Asian Session Price Action After the ICT Short
Near 10:20, ICT says price reached a daily fair value gap, which he then describes as becoming a bullish reclaimed fair value gap. According to his narration, the market subsequently began to rally and use a lower-quadrant level.
This closing observation connects the short-term bearish idea with his earlier bullish higher-timeframe context. In ICT’s account, the short was a tactical move into a downside objective, not a claim that the broader bullish market structure had permanently reversed.
ICT Asian Session Short Takeaways
The main lesson is the sequencing of ICT’s analysis: begin with a higher-timeframe area, wait for liquidity above prior highs to be reached, apply a specific time window, and then use lower-timeframe displacement or fair value gap behavior to frame a trade. Target selection and partial exits are treated as separate decisions shaped by nearby lows, gaps, and perceived volatility.
These concepts are subjective chart interpretations and should not be read as investment advice or a promise of performance. Anyone studying the review should compare the spoken explanation with the original chart video, since the narration does not state exact levels and this article does not visually confirm the annotations.
ICT 2026 Asian Session Date and Transcript Notes
The mapped recording is titled "ICT 2026 Asian Session Short Review \ April 14, 2026" and is published on the channel The Inner Circle Trader. Its watch page, read on 2026-09-13, lists a publication date of 2026-04-16 at 06:11:32 in the UTC−07:00 offset and a stated runtime of 644 seconds. April 14, 2026 was a Tuesday and April 16, 2026 a Thursday, which matches the recording itself: ICT opens with "Happy Thursday" and reviews an Asian-session trade he associates with "Tuesday evening." The title's April 14, 2026 date is therefore the trade date he describes, and the upload follows two days later; the two dates are not in conflict.
ICT does not name the instrument, the chart’s time zone or any exact price in the recording, so this article attributes none. Timestamps here come from automatic speech recognition of the recording’s audio (whisper-large-v3-turbo) rather than from uploader-provided captions, so recognized words and numbers were checked against context; one phrase near 8:52 was ambiguous in the recognition and is not relied on anywhere above. Nothing in this article is drawn from the chart visuals, and no candle, level, fill or result is reproduced beyond what the narration states.
Watch the original lesson on YouTube
This video cannot be played inside another website: the embedded player itself reports “Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.” That response was read from the player on 2026-09-13 and again on 2026-09-14, so no player is reserved here and no embed is left blank. The recording is available directly on YouTube.
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ICT 2026 Asian Session Sources
Four references support this article: the mapped recording, an official source for the clock question, this site’s own research on restricted trading windows, and an unofficial written summary of the same review.
- [1] The mapped recording. ICT 2026 Asian Session Short Review \ April 14, 2026, The Inner Circle Trader on YouTube. Watch-page metadata read 2026-09-13: public, not unlisted, published 2026-04-16, stated runtime 644 seconds. Embedding is disabled by the video owner, re-tested from this site’s origin on 2026-09-14.
- [2] NIST: Daylight Saving Time Rules. Official U.S. time standard. For 2026 it places daylight saving time from March 8 to November 1, with the clock set by the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November. That matters when a spoken 9:50 to 10:10 window from April is placed on a chart whose time zone ICT does not state.
- [3] Prop Firm News Trading Rules Explain Limits and Restrictions (BestProps). Document-based research across 34 current firm records, including rows with a stated news rule or window, rows where no fixed window is stated, and source-gap rows still to be re-checked. Read its own warning: the firm or platform controls the current wording, so confirm the linked source and your dashboard before trading or requesting a payout.
- [4] ICT Archivist: ICT 2026 Asian Session Short Review \ April 14, 2026. Unofficial third-party archive, not an ICT publication; its written summary was read on 2026-09-13 and is listed for comparison with the recording, which is the source this article is built from.
This article is educational commentary and not financial advice. ICT terminology is methodology-specific, chart annotation involves judgment, and leveraged trading carries a risk of substantial loss. BestProps is not affiliated with The Inner Circle Trader, ICT Archivist, NIST or any prop firm, and no source listed here endorses this article or any setup. Before applying anything from a session review, confirm the recording, test objective rules with appropriate data, and check the current terms of the relevant prop account.
