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Intraday Profile — London Normal Protraction

Also: London Normal Protraction, London Normal Protraction Sell Day, London Normal Protraction Buy Day, London Protraction Profile

Algorithmic high symmetrical

Visual Context Required

This concept requires chart visuals for full understanding.

The highest-probability London session intraday price delivery template in which IPDA creates an immediate projectionay (Judas swing) phase beginning at or right after 12:00 AM midnight New York time, reaching its extreme (1–2 standard deviations of the CBDR) by 2:00 AM–4:00 AM NY, then reversing and expanding in the true directional close of the day. On sell days, price rallies immediately after midnight toward 2:00 AM NY creating the daily high, then declines to form the daily low by London close. On buy days, price declines immediately after midnight toward 2:00 AM NY creating the daily low, then rallies to form the daily high. The profile requires both the CBDR (<40 pips) and the Asian range (20–30 pips) to be in narrow consolidation.

First seen: 2017 Updated: 2017
Identification8
  • CBDR (2:00 PM–8:00 PM NY) must be less than 40 pips
  • Asian range (8:00 PM–12:00 AM NY) must be 20–30 pips
  • Sell day (normal): price must begin rallying immediately after 12:00 AM midnight NY toward 2:00 AM NY (sustained move higher from midnight to 2:00 AM)
  • Buy day (normal): price must begin declining immediately after 12:00 AM midnight NY toward 2:00 AM NY (sustained move lower from midnight to 2:00 AM)
  • The projectionay move must make a higher high (sell day) or lower low (buy day) than anything seen in the Asian range or CBDR
  • By 1:00–1:30 AM NY, price should have confirmed directional movement — this is the entry signal
  • The projectionay extreme (high for sell, low for buy) forms between 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM NY
  • Higher-timeframe daily bias must be established and clear
Entry4
  • Sell day entry: sell short at 1–2 standard deviations above CBDR, overlapping with a premium PD array (bearish order block, fair value gap, liquidity void), between 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM NY
  • Buy day entry: buy long at 1–2 standard deviations below CBDR, overlapping with a discount PD array (bullish order block, fair value gap, liquidity void), between 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM NY
  • Entry can begin as early as 1:00–1:30 AM NY once the directional move is confirmed
  • Execute on 15-minute or 5-minute chart
Stop3
  • 30 pips beyond entry for CBDR/PD array overlap entries
  • 40 pips beyond entry for Asian range run entries
  • 10 pips beyond the day's current extreme for first-retracement order block entries
Target4
  • Low of the day (sell day) or high of the day (buy day) using CBDR standard deviation projections
  • Scale at 20–30 pips initial, then every 2 standard deviations of Asian range or CBDR
  • Scale at previous day's high/low ± 5–15 pips
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Invalidation4
  • Price does not begin moving in the protraction direction immediately after midnight — this profile does not exist
  • CBDR greater than 40 pips (unless Asian range compensates with 20–30 pip consolidation)
  • Asian range greater than 30 pips
  • Any of the London session avoidance conditions are present

Inferred Conditions (Unvalidated)

  • ICT explicitly states this is his "go to" and "money making" London profile — the highest priority setup he looks for
  • If the normal protraction criteria are not met, he looks for the London Delayed Protraction Profile
  • The profile is most effective on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday for one-shot-one-kill weekly setups
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ICT Quotes

"This is my go to I like this profile. If I do not have these ingredients, if you will. I'm not baking in London, I'm just not going to do it."

00:04:05|77-ICT Mentorship Core Content - Month 8 - Intraday Profiles.srt

"for classic cell day for intraday trading... you start with the central bank dealers range, and for a classic or higher probability Monday normal protection, sell day, the central bank dealers range is going to be less than 40 pips... typically, what you're going to see is the market will rally up after 12am, New York time to 2am New York time."

00:00:33|77-ICT Mentorship Core Content - Month 8 - Intraday Profiles.srt

"the market starts dropping immediately after 12am New York time at midnight, and it trades lower down into 2am. Now again, the London low can form just ahead of 2am but we're looking for price that be trending towards or making lower lows going into that 2am time period."

00:12:50|77-ICT Mentorship Core Content - Month 8 - Intraday Profiles.srt

Timeframes

intraday
Version History1 version
201700:00:16

77-ICT Mentorship Core Content - Month 8 - Intraday Profiles.srt

""The first one we're gonna go over is the sell profile, London normal protraction... there's going to be lots of different deviations and subtle variances in these specific themes.""

Initial formal definition of named intraday profile types

Notes

Definition requires visual context: the distinction between "immediate" movement after midnight versus "delayed" movement (which triggers the London Delayed Protraction profile) is qualitative and requires looking at actual price action. ICT notes there will be "subtle variances" and the profiles won't look exactly as outlined — traders must look for similarity, not exact replication. This profile plus the London Delayed Protraction Profile are the only two London entry frameworks ICT uses.

Asymmetry Notes

The structure is the same for buy and sell days but inverted: sell day = rally after midnight → high at 2–4 AM → decline; buy day = decline after midnight → low at 2–4 AM → rally.