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How to Find Trading Entries in 2026 With the ICC Method Explained by SCI

How I Find My Trading Entries | Trading Course 003

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Key takeaways

  • Entry timing looks simple until real money is on the line — that gap is where most traders lose.
  • SCI's Trading Course 003 breaks entry selection into a repeatable process rather than a feeling.
  • The ICC framework is the core of the series: identify the structure, wait for confirmation, then execute.
  • Poor risk management and emotion, not a bad entry model, are the most common reasons traders blow up.
  • Entries are the last step — markup and context come first, execution is the smallest part of the job.

Finding trading entries in 2026 comes down to one repeatable process: mark up the chart, wait for price to confirm the level you already identified, and only then execute. SCI's Trading Course 003, "How I Find My Trading Entries," walks through exactly that sequence, and the free materials around it — including updates posted at https://www.instagram.com/tradesbysci — are where the course visuals and trade examples live. The method is not a secret indicator; it is a disciplined order of operations that keeps you out of low-quality trades.

Why trading entries are the last step, not the first

Most traders open a chart and immediately look for something to click. The ICC approach reverses that: context first, entry last. You start by marking up the chart — the higher-timeframe levels, the session highs and lows, the obvious supply and demand zones — and you let price come to those levels instead of chasing it. Only after the markup is done do you look for a trigger. That single change in order removes most impulsive trades, because there is nothing to click until the chart has already told you where the decision point is.

A practical markup routine looks like this:

  1. Mark the previous day's high, low, open and close.
  2. Mark the current session's high and low as they form.
  3. Mark the obvious swing points on the higher timeframe you trade.
  4. Note which levels price has already reacted to more than once.
  5. Leave the chart alone and wait for price to reach one of those levels.

That is the whole preparation. No prediction, no bias about direction, no indicators required.

The ICC framework behind every entry

The ICC framework — the concept the community around this channel is built on — describes how price moves from one point of interest to the next. In practice it means you are not trying to catch the exact turn; you are waiting for price to show that it has finished doing what it was doing at a level and is ready to move away from it. The entry is the confirmation, not the guess.

This matters because the hardest part of trading is not knowing where price might go. It is knowing when to act. A level by itself is just a line on a chart. The framework turns that line into a decision: if price behaves a certain way here, you act; if it does not, you do nothing and wait for the next level. That binary structure is what makes the process repeatable across instruments, whether you trade gold (XAUUSD), a major forex pair, or an index.

Entry timing and the difference between a good level and a good trade

A good level is not automatically a good trade. The same zone that produces a clean move on one occasion will get run straight through on another, and the difference is usually timing and confirmation rather than the level itself. Entry timing is one of those skills that looks simple in a video and becomes difficult the moment real money is on the line — which is exactly why it deserves its own step in the process instead of being treated as an afterthought.

Three things separate a good level from a good trade:

  • Confirmation. Price has to do something at the level before you commit, not just arrive at it.
  • Location within the range. A level in the middle of a range is worth less than one at the edge of it.
  • Session context. The same setup behaves differently in a thin, low-volume session than during an active one.

Traders who work night shifts or trade outside the main session often report making better decisions precisely because low volume forces them to slow down and process what is actually happening on the chart. Fewer impulses, more reading.

Risk management decides whether your entries matter

The entry is only one variable, and it is rarely the one that ends accounts. Traders who have followed this material for a while consistently point to the same lesson: they made progress with the method and then gave a large chunk of it back through poor risk management and emotion. The entry model was fine. The position sizing was not.

Before you worry about squeezing a better entry price, fix these:

  1. Define the maximum you are willing to lose on a single trade as a percentage of the account.
  2. Set the stop where the idea is invalidated, not where it feels comfortable.
  3. Size the position from the stop distance, not from how confident you feel.
  4. Cap the number of trades per session so a bad day cannot become a catastrophic one.
  5. Review the trades where you broke the rules, not just the losers.

A trader can have a mediocre entry model and survive for years with disciplined sizing. The reverse almost never works.

Common questions traders ask about entries

Most of the recurring doubts around this topic are not about the concept itself — they are about execution under pressure. Traders who understand the framework still ask whether they are entering too early, whether they should wait for a second confirmation, and how many setups they should realistically expect in a session.

The honest answers are usually unsatisfying: yes, you will miss moves; no, you do not need to take every valid setup; and yes, the number of high-quality entries per week is smaller than most beginners assume. The skill is not in finding more entries. It is in rejecting the ones that do not meet the criteria you wrote down before the session started. Writing those criteria down — in advance, in plain language — is the single most effective way to stop improvising mid-trade.

Another common theme is patience with the learning curve. Traders who go back through older course material several times describe the same experience: the first pass gives you the vocabulary, the second pass fixes the small errors you were making, and the third pass is where it starts to feel automatic. That is normal. Repetition is the mechanism, not a sign that you are slow.

Final thoughts

Entry selection is a process, not a talent: mark up the chart, wait for price to confirm the level, size the position from the stop, and accept that most of the work happens before you click. SCI builds the whole Trading Course around that idea, and Course 003 is the entry-specific piece of it — worth watching alongside the earlier lessons rather than in isolation. If you want the visuals that go with the explanation, the course material and trade examples are posted at https://www.instagram.com/tradesbysci. Treat the entries as the last 10% of the job and the markup, patience and risk rules as the other 90%, and the results stop depending on luck.

Questions & answers

Do I need indicators to find entries with the ICC method?

No. The framework is built on chart markup and price behavior at levels you have already identified, not on indicator signals. Indicators can be used as extra context, but they are not the trigger. The trigger is how price behaves when it reaches a level you marked before the session.

How many valid trading entries should I expect per week?

Far fewer than most beginners assume. High-quality setups that meet every criterion are relatively rare, and forcing more trades is one of the fastest ways to give back gains. It is better to take two or three clean entries a week than to take fifteen mediocre ones.

I understand the concept but still enter too early. What should I do?

Write your confirmation criteria down before the session and treat them as a checklist you cannot skip. If price has not done the specific thing you wrote down, there is no trade — regardless of how strong the level looks. Reviewing your early entries afterward usually shows they all failed the same checklist item.

Can I trade this approach outside the main session, for example on a night shift?

Yes. Lower-volume sessions can actually help, because slower price action gives you more time to process what is happening and reduces impulsive clicking. The trade-off is that moves may be smaller and levels can be less reliable, so position sizing and patience matter more.

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