Concept
Model 2022
Model 2022 is a Smart Money Concepts / ICT concept. The Library holds 2 implementations, each one a working definition you can pull into Quant.
raid → MSS → FVG entry
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What is Model 2022?
Model 2022 is the intraday entry model taught in the free 2022 ICT YouTube mentorship — the community adopted the year as the model's name. It is a fixed three-beat sequence: raid, shift, entry. First, price runs a visible pool of resting stops (a liquidity sweep of an old low when hunting longs, an old high for shorts), ideally into a higher-timeframe objective. Second, price turns with displacement: an energetic leg that closes through a recent opposing swing point, the market structure shift (MSS). Third, the entry is the retracement into the fair value gap the displacement leg leaves behind, stop beyond the raided extreme, target at the liquidity on the far side.
In practice it's run top-down: bias and the pool to be raided are read on something like the 15-minute to hourly chart, and the sweep–shift–retrace is executed on 1–5-minute charts, usually during the London or New York morning. "Model 2022" is community shorthand rather than a formal spec (traders differ on timeframes and on how strict the structure shift must be), but the raid → MSS → gap-entry skeleton is the stable, recognizable core.
How traders use it
- As a complete intraday playbook: the sequence supplies the trigger (the retrace into the gap), the invalidation (beyond the swept high or low), and the objective (the opposite pool), so a trade is either fully formed or not taken at all.
- As a filter on structure breaks: a shift only counts here after a sweep and with displacement; structure breaks without a preceding raid are treated as continuation noise rather than reversal signals, which is the model's main defense against false shifts.
- As a session routine: mark the pools left by Asia, London, and the prior day, wait for one to be taken during an active window, then stalk the shift-and-retrace on the execution timeframe instead of chasing the sweep itself.
Model 2022 vs neighboring ICT models
Silver Bullet: The Silver Bullet is time-boxed (a fair value gap entry hunted inside specific one-hour windows, such as 10–11 am New York), while Model 2022 is event-sequenced: it can set up whenever a raid and a structure shift occur. The two overlap often enough that a single trade can qualify as both.
Unicorn: The Unicorn is an entry refinement (a breaker block overlapping a fair value gap) that can appear inside any model, including this one. Model 2022 is the full sequence around the entry (raid, shift, retrace); the Unicorn just specifies a higher-confluence version of the zone being entered from.
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Smart Money Concepts / ICT
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Model 2022 FAQ
What timeframes does the ICT 2022 model use?
There's no single official pairing. Commonly the bias and the pool to be raided are read on the 15-minute to hourly chart, while the sweep, market structure shift, and fair-value-gap entry are executed on 1-to-5-minute charts during the London or New York morning. Higher-timeframe versions of the same sequence exist; the structure of the model doesn't change, only the scale.
Why is it called the 2022 model?
Because it's the model at the center of the free 2022 ICT YouTube mentorship, and viewers adopted the year as its name. It isn't a claim that the setup only worked in 2022; the label is community shorthand for the raid → market structure shift → fair value gap entry sequence taught in that series, which traders continue to apply on current price action.
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