Weekly Range Profile
Also: weekly market profile, weekly price profile, weekly range template
Visual Context Required
This concept requires chart visuals for full understanding.
A taxonomy of ten named market behavioral archetypes that describe how the weekly price range tends to form, depending on where the market is relative to higher-timeframe PD arrays and whether conditions are bullish or bearish. Each profile defines the characteristic intra-week structure — specifically which day of the week forms the high or low, and how manipulation (stop runs) precedes the directional expansion. Profiles are observed on the 1-hour chart across a Monday-to-Friday session. They are not guaranteed outcomes but are high-frequency patterns that enable traders to anticipate the weekly range before it fully forms. The ten profiles are: 1. Classic Tuesday Low of the Week (bullish) 2. Classic Tuesday High of the Week (bearish) 3. Wednesday Low of the Week (bullish) 4. Wednesday High of the Week (bearish) 5. Consolidation Thursday Reversal — Bullish 6. Consolidation Thursday Reversal — Bearish 7. Consolidation Midweek Rally (bullish) 8. Consolidation Midweek Decline (bearish) 9. Seek and Destroy Bullish Friday (neutral/low probability) 10. Seek and Destroy Bearish Friday (neutral/low probability) 11. Wednesday Weekly Reversal — Bullish 12. Wednesday Weekly Reversal — Bearish
Identification4
- Determine higher-timeframe directional bias (bullish or bearish) using monthly/weekly PD arrays before selecting a profile.
- Map higher-timeframe discount arrays (for bullish) or premium arrays (for bearish) to identify which level price will be manipulated into.
- Monitor Monday's price action relative to the discount/premium array; if the market fails to reach that array on Monday, the drive into the array likely occurs Tuesday or Wednesday.
- Confirm profile by matching observed intra-week price behavior to the defining characteristics of each profile.
Entry2
- Each profile defines the approximate day and session (London or New York) where the manipulation and reversal entry occur.
- Entry is refined using the market maker manipulation template for the corresponding profile.
Stop1
- Profile-specific; generally beyond the manipulation extreme that defines the profile's low or high.
Target2
- Premium PD array (for bullish profiles); discount PD array (for bearish profiles).
- Profile determines approximate expected day for the week's high or low to form, constraining trade duration.
Invalidation2
- Profile is invalidated if price fails to respect the defined manipulation structure (e.g., a "Tuesday Low" profile is invalidated if the actual week low forms on Thursday without the Tuesday drive).
- Summer months (July–August) often produce Seek and Destroy profiles — lower-probability conditions better avoided.
Inferred Conditions (Unvalidated)
- Profiles are statistical tendencies, not deterministic rules. They require higher-timeframe PD array context to be meaningful.
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- Consolidation profiles (Thursday Reversal, Midweek Rally/Decline) often occur around high-impact news events (FOMC at 2pm ET, employment releases at 8:30am ET).
- Seek and Destroy profiles are the most dangerous to trade; primary utility is recognizing conditions to sit out of the market.
- Wednesday Weekly Reversal profiles differ from Wednesday High/Low of Week profiles — the reversal involves a false break of retail support/resistance driven by news, while the High/Low of Week profiles are straightforward stop-run-and-expand patterns.
ICT Quotes
"The classic Tuesday low of the week, okay, this is a market profile that is generally bullish, so you're already looking for bullish prices anyway. And what you're looking for is manipulation. In the form of price hovering above a higher timeframe discount array on Monday then drops into a higher timeframe discount array on Tuesday to form the low of the week."
"The Seek and Destroy bullish Friday. This is a neutral or low probability market profile... it's better to avoid trading these conditions all together."
"Monday through Wednesday's range, if that is broken when it's bullish, the high that's formed between Monday and Wednesday. That is a confirmation that you are in a buy program and the markets will expand aggressively to reach for your higher level premium array."
Timeframes
Version History2 versions
66-ICT Mentorship Core Content - Month 7 - Short Term Trading Defining Weekly Range Profiles.srt
"Lesson two of short term trading March 2017, ICT mentorship content. This lesson is defining the weekly range profiles... This lesson is one of the lessons that if you just look through it quickly in …"
Initial definition in March 2017 content (Month 7, Lesson 2).
ICT YT - 2024-08-12 - ICT 2024 Mentorship - Lecture 06.srt
"It becomes very, very sloppy, real quick. And it becomes almost seek and destroy like — now what is seek and destroy? Seek and Destroy is where the market will go just above a short term high, just to…"
2024 EXPANSION: ICT formally extends the Seek and Destroy concept from a weekly profile (profiles 9/10) to an intraday-level characterization. In the 2024 Mentorship, Seek and Destroy is used to describe individual session behavior where the algorithm raids both buy-side and sell-side liquidity in succession without producing directional expansion. This is correlated with 'high resistance liquidity' conditions and screens for non-trading days. See seek-and-destroy-profile.yaml for full intraday definition.
Notes
definition_requires_visual_context: true — ICT explicitly states these profiles require the student to go through price data on a 1-hour chart to understand them. The diagram/squiggly line descriptions in the lesson are insufficient without chart experience. Each named profile is a candidate for its own sub-concept entry but is documented here as a taxonomy for cross-reference. The twelve profiles as enumerated: 1. Classic Tuesday Low of Week (bullish) 2. Classic Tuesday High of Week (bearish) 3. Wednesday Low of Week (bullish) 4. Wednesday High of Week (bearish) 5. Consolidation Thursday Reversal (bullish) 6. Consolidation Thursday Reversal (bearish) 7. Consolidation Midweek Rally (bullish) 8. Consolidation Midweek Decline (bearish) 9. Seek and Destroy Bullish Friday (neutral) 10. Seek and Destroy Bearish Friday (neutral) 11. Wednesday Weekly Reversal (bullish) 12. Wednesday Weekly Reversal (bearish) See also: market-maker-manipulation-template (which provides detailed entry/exit mechanics for each profile), one-shot-one-kill.
Asymmetry Notes
Each bullish profile has a bearish mirror. Asymmetry exists in the Seek and Destroy and Wednesday Weekly Reversal profiles, which have distinct structural nuances between their bullish and bearish versions.