Michael J. Huddleston

Michael J. Huddleston, better known as ICT — Inner Circle Trader, is an American trader and trading educator whose methodology has become widely associated with Smart Money Concepts and institutional-style price-action analysis. His trading framework focuses on understanding how liquidity and price delivery interact across different market sessions and timeframes. Key concepts associated with his teachings include Liquidity, Market Structure Shift (MSS), Order Blocks, Fair Value Gaps (FVGs), Premium & Discount Arrays, Optimal Trade Entry (OTE), Kill Zones and Power of Three (AMD). ICT has particularly focused on Forex, equity indices and futures, with his methodology also commonly applied by traders to markets such as XAU/USD. His educational material is primarily delivered through long-form YouTube mentorship content. His 2022 mentorship became especially influential among retail traders, introducing a structured intraday framework involving higher-timeframe bias, liquidity sweeps, market-structure shifts and lower-timeframe execution. Core Expertise: Forex, Futures, Indices, XAU/USD, Liquidity, Market Structure, Smart Money Concepts, Order Blocks, Fair Value Gaps, Kill Zones, OTE, Power of Three and Institutional Price Delivery.