Mastering ICT FVGs with Profectus.AI
This guide walks you through the Fair Value Gaps (FVG) concept as they are traded in the ICT community, built in Profectus.AI.
A Fair Value Gap represents a price imbalance created when the market moves aggressively in one direction, leaving inefficient trading behind. From an ICT perspective, a Fair Value Gap forms when: Price moves so quickly that buyers and sellers do not transact efficiently.
Step 0: Access the Strategy Concept Template [1 Min]
Click the button to load the trading bot directly onto your canvas:
Your canvas should display 15 blocks. Check? Let's continue!
Step 1: Export the Trading Bot [1 Min]
Before diving into customization, export the bot with the upper right export button to download the file.
Step 2: Upload to MetaTrader 5 [4 Min]
Don’t know how? Refer to our help article "Exporting Your First Strategy".
Step 3: Understand the Logic [1 Min]
The Fair Value Gap should be used as a strategy component rather than a complete standalone strategy. It can be used on every candle, and it will check the following market conditions on every new candle:
Define the gap using a 3-candlestick pattern
There is a gap between the high of Candle ID 1 & Candle ID 3
Candle ID 1 & Candle ID 2 show impulsive strength
For the Liquidity grab, the low of candle ID 3 needs to be lower than the low of candle ID 2
Once an FVG is found, we store it in a variable to find it again later
A Buy limit order is placed at the high of the FVG
A Stop loss order is placed at the low of the FVG
When a new FVG is found, the old one will be deleted, as well as the orders
The key point: Fair Value Gaps are not entries by default — they are areas of interest to be governed by rules. The FVG component should not be traded as is.
Step 4: Make It Your Own [10 Min]
You can adjust and experiment:
Add more strategy rules or include the FVG component in your own strategies
EXPORT and see the differences.
Add the bearish iFVG side to take selling opportunities as well
EXPORT and see the differences
Play around with timeframes and assets
EXPORT and see the differences.
Refine the rules to fit your own interpretation of the ICT Fair Value Gap concept
EXPORT and see the differences.
Conclusion
The Fair Value Gap is a popular ICT or Smart Money component: simple rules and universal application. Now it’s your turn — backtest it, tweak it, and evolve it into your own winning system.
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