TTrades

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The TTrades Fractal Model and the million-view ICT library

TTrades is the explainer of record for a generation of traders learning Inner Circle Trader vocabulary: "ICT Daily Bias: The Only Video You Will Ever Need!" has been watched 1.6 million times, the "A+ ICT Entry Checklist" 1.1 million, and the channel’s 552 uploads total 44.6 million views. On that foundation sits an original contribution, the TTrades Fractal Model (TTFM): a rule set built on higher-timeframe candle closures confirmed by a lower-timeframe change in the state of delivery. It is taught through a 44-video free course, a 38-lesson mentorship and a TradingView indicator built with toodegrees. In 2026 the channel added New York Open Live Q&A streams, the MNQ Cup competition and a regular seat on NinjaTrader Live.

IN TTRADES'S WORDS

TTrades's featured video

“ICT Daily Bias - The Only Video You Will Ever Need!” · published Aug 1, 2023 · 1.6M views

Who is TTrades?

TTrades publishes under a handle and a four-word bio, "student of the market," and the YouTube about page adds only: "Student. Not Financial Advice. Entertainment Purposes Only." The modesty is the point. The channel, opened on 19 October 2019, has become one of the largest ICT-style education channels on YouTube: 535,000 subscribers, 44.6 million views across 552 uploads, and a tutorial on daily bias that 1.6 million people have watched. What sets it apart is restraint. Lessons run twelve to twenty minutes, cover one concept each, ship with a PDF and a matching blog post, and skip the lifestyle footage the genre is known for.

The X account dates from September 2019, a month before the channel. The breakout came in 2023, when the "ICT Concepts" explainers landed in quick succession. "Orderblocks Simplified" arrived in January, the "A+ ICT Entry Checklist" in May (now 1.1 million views), "Liquidity: Buyside & Sellside" in June (911,000), "ICT Daily Bias: The Only Video You Will Ever Need!" in August (1.6 million) and a Silver Bullet walkthrough with a backtest later that month (886,000). Those videos made TTrades the place a generation of traders went to learn Inner Circle Trader’s vocabulary. The written versions live on at ttrades.com in a free Trading Education Center of roughly 110 articles and PDFs, covering everything from order blocks and fair value gaps to position sizing and journaling in Notion.

From that foundation came something original: the TTrades Fractal Model, or TTFM. The idea is simple to state. Price cannot reverse without forming a swing point. So the model looks for the higher-timeframe candle most likely to form that swing (Candle 2), confirms it with a change in the state of delivery on a lower timeframe, and trades the continuation that follows (Candle 3 or Candle 4). The November 2024 introduction video has been watched 392,000 times, and the "Trading Candle 2, 3 and 4" series followed. Since then the channel has settled into a weekly rhythm: a new lesson every Saturday at 11 am Eastern, premiered with a PDF and a blog post, then added to a 44-video free Fractal Model course playlist that anyone can work through in order.

The paid layer is the Fractal Model Mentorship, a 38-lesson course with a private Discord, daily access to TTrades and a live Q&A every weekday. Alongside it sits "Fractal Model [Pro+] (TTrades)," the TradingView indicator built with developer toodegrees and published in November 2024, which plots CISDs, protected swings, SMT and PSP as price forms them. With AM Trades, TTrades also runs The Market Lens on Whop, "an exclusive trading community by AM and TTrades" that lists 9,832 members and a 4.9 rating from 531 reviews. Their June 2026 collaboration, "A Simple 3-Step Trading Model," has been watched 186,000 times. The free TTrades Community Discord counts more than 85,000 members, the Telegram channel 12,000 subscribers, Instagram 116,000 followers and X 212,000.

In 2026 TTrades has stepped in front of a live audience. On YouTube, "New York Open Live Q&A" streams start around 9:15 am Eastern a couple of mornings a week and draw 15,000 to 25,000 views apiece. In August the channel hosted the TTrades MNQ Cup, a one-day, five-contract Micro Nasdaq competition with more than $10,000 in prizes and no entry fee, run on NinjaTrader’s Arena. NinjaTrader has made TTrades a regular. Guest spots on NinjaTrader Live with Anthony Crudele began in April 2025, a dedicated "Develop Your Edge" session on the Fractal Model aired on 17 September 2026, and through September and October TTrades has held a seat on the Monday morning panel. It is a long way from "student of the market," and the handle has not changed. That is why the channel matters: it proved the most-watched way to teach ICT concepts was to strip them down, then built something of its own on top.

How TTrades trades

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TTrades's career timeline

SHORTS

Forming a Higher Low at a POI to Continue Higher

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Ideal Formation to Support Expansion Higher

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Prop firms TTrades works with

All five firms appear with code TT in the description of the 7 October 2026 New York Open Live Q&A and on ttrades.com/prop-firms, where winners of the weekly giveaways are announced on Saturdays. Descriptions in June 2026 also carried Tradeify and Funded Next links.

NinjaTrader is a platform partner (a two-week free data trial link, ninja.ttrades.com, sits in every description) and TTrades is a listed guest contributor on NinjaTrader Live. Tradezella (code TTRADES) hosts the TTrades Playbook.

We list a firm relationship only with dated public evidence from the last 30 days, re-checked each editorial pass.

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