# How to Find High-Probability Trading Entries With the ICC Framework and Cut Bad Trades A practical guide to finding trading entries with the ICC framework: market structure, the correction phase, confirmation, risk placement and common mistakes. Source: https://getrgt.top/how-to-find-high/ · based on the channel [SCI](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClsS3T1SnsX__1g9COtfKCQ) · Video: [How I Find My Trading Entries | Trading Course 003](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh85H9D7gXo) · 2026-10-16 ![How to Find High-Probability Trading Entries With the ICC Framework and Cut Bad Trades](https://getrgt.top/how-to-find-high/how-to-find-high.webp) ## Key takeaways - Entry timing is a skill, not a signal — it depends on structure, not on indicators. - The ICC framework breaks a move into three stages: Indication, Correction, Continuation. - The correction is where entries are found; the continuation is where they are confirmed. - Risk is defined by the invalidation point of the setup, not by a fixed pip or dollar amount. - Most losing trades come from entering during the correction before structure confirms the continuation. Finding trading entries is the process of waiting for price to finish a corrective pullback inside an already established structure, then entering only when that structure confirms continuation. In the third instalment of his trading course, SCI walks through exactly that process under the ICC framework — Indication, Correction, Continuation — and the full breakdown of his approach is documented on his [Instagram page](https://www.instagram.com/tradesbysci), where he posts trade walkthroughs and course material. Entry timing looks trivial on a finished chart and becomes the hardest part of live trading. The difference between a good entry and a bad one is rarely the direction — it is whether you waited for the correction to end and the continuation to actually begin. ## Why most traders enter too early and pay for it The core problem with entries is impatience inside a move that already looks obvious. Price makes a strong impulsive leg, everyone sees it, and the instinct is to jump in immediately — right at the moment when the market is most likely to pull back and shake out late buyers. That impulsive leg is the **indication**: the market telling you where it wants to go. It is information, not an entry. Traders who treat the indication as a signal end up buying the top of the leg, sitting through the entire correction in drawdown, and often closing at a loss right before price resumes in their original direction. A useful reframe is that entries are a patience exercise, not a prediction exercise. You are not forecasting where price will go next; you are waiting for the market to reveal that the pullback is over. That is a completely different job, and it is the one the ICC structure is designed to solve. ## The three stages of the ICC framework ICC stands for Indication, Correction, Continuation, and each stage has a distinct job in the entry process. 1. **Indication** — an impulsive, decisive move that breaks a previous structure level or swing. This tells you the market has chosen a direction and that a continuation is now the higher-probability scenario. 2. **Correction** — the pullback that follows. Price retraces part of the impulse, often into a previously broken level, a supply or demand zone, or an imbalance left behind by the impulsive move. This is the phase you observe, not the phase you trade blindly. 3. **Continuation** — price resumes in the direction of the indication. This is the phase where the entry becomes valid, because the correction has been resolved in your favour. The framework matters because it separates *where* you are allowed to look for an entry (inside the correction) from *when* you are allowed to take it (at the confirmation of continuation). Skipping the second half of that sentence is what turns a good idea into a losing trade. ## How to mark up a chart before you look for an entry Markup is done before the session, not during it. Working from higher timeframes down keeps the bias objective and stops you from inventing setups on a one-minute chart. - Identify the most recent impulsive leg on the higher timeframe and mark its origin and its extreme. - Mark the structure level that the impulse broke — that broken level is a candidate area for the correction to react from. - Mark the imbalance or zone left inside the impulse, since price frequently returns to it before continuing. - Note the swing low (for longs) or swing high (for shorts) of the correction as it develops — this becomes your invalidation point. - Only after the markup is complete do you move down to your execution timeframe and wait. A clean chart with three or four levels beats a chart covered in indicators. The fewer objects on the screen, the easier it is to see whether the correction is still running or has already ended. ## What confirmation actually looks like on the execution timeframe Confirmation is not a feeling and it is not a single candlestick. It is a structural event: price stops making lower lows inside a bullish correction, or stops making higher highs inside a bearish one, and then breaks the short-term structure in the direction of the original indication. Practical markers traders use at this stage: - A break of the last minor swing point inside the correction. - A displacement candle that closes beyond that swing point with momentum, rather than a slow drift. - A return to the broken level that holds as support or resistance instead of failing. If none of those appear, the correction is still in progress and there is no entry. The trade you do not take during an unresolved correction is worth more than the trade you force into it. ## Placing risk so the entry makes sense An entry without a defined invalidation point is a guess. In the ICC structure the invalidation point is already on the chart: it is the extreme of the correction. If price trades through it, the correction was not a correction — it was a reversal, and the setup is void. That gives you three decisions in a fixed order: 1. Entry at the confirmation of continuation. 2. Stop beyond the correction extreme, with a small buffer for spread and wick noise. 3. Target at the next structural level in the direction of the indication, or at the extreme of the original impulse if the move is extended. Position size then follows from the distance between entry and stop, not from a fixed lot size. This is the part traders most often get wrong after they learn entries: a technically perfect entry with oversized risk still produces account damage, and several commenters on the course videos describe exactly that — good setups, poor risk management, painful lessons. ## Common questions traders ask about entries **Is the entry the hard part or is the exit?** Entries are the part that feels urgent, which is why they cause the most errors. Exits are usually solved by a pre-defined target and invalidation level. Once entry, stop and target are all decided before the trade, the emotional pressure drops sharply. **Do I need indicators to find entries?** No. Price structure, the correction, and the confirmation break carry all the information needed. Indicators lag the exact events you are trying to trade. **How many setups per day should I expect?** Fewer than most people assume. Valid ICC entries require an indication, a completed correction and a confirmation, and on many instruments that combination appears only a handful of times per week on the timeframes worth trading. **What if I miss the entry?** Missing one entry is normal and costs nothing. Chasing it means entering mid-continuation with a wide stop and a poor reward-to-risk ratio. The next indication will come. ## Useful links - Instagram, trade walkthroughs and course material: https://www.instagram.com/tradesbysci - Live trades: https://x.com/tradesbysci - Trading platform used: https://tinyurl.com/hideoutsci - Discord community: https://discord.gg/tradesbysci - Telegram, ICC Mafia: https://t.me/iccmafia ## Final thoughts on building a repeatable entry process Entries are not found by staring harder at a chart, they are found by following a sequence: identify the indication, wait out the correction, enter only on the confirmation of continuation, and place risk at the correction extreme. That sequence is what turns a discretionary decision into a repeatable process, and a repeatable process is what makes results measurable over dozens of trades rather than one lucky session. The third part of SCI's trading course lays this out step by step, and the channel is worth following for the rest of the series if you want the same framework applied to live markets. For course material and trade walkthroughs, follow [SCI on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/tradesbysci). ## Questions & answers **What is the ICC framework in trading?** ICC stands for Indication, Correction, Continuation. An impulsive move indicates direction, the following pullback is the correction, and the resumption of the move is the continuation. Entries are taken at the confirmation of continuation, not during the indication or the middle of the correction. **Why do I keep entering too early and getting stopped out?** Because the indication looks like an entry when it is only information. Entering on the impulse means buying before the pullback, so the correction puts you in drawdown and often stops you out just before price resumes. Waiting for the correction to end and structure to confirm continuation fixes most of these losses. **Where should the stop loss go on an ICC entry?** Beyond the extreme of the correction, with a small buffer for spread and wick noise. If price trades through that extreme, the correction has failed and the setup is invalid. Position size is then calculated from the distance between entry and stop, not set in advance. **Can I trade entries without indicators?** Yes. The information needed is price structure: the impulsive leg, the level it broke, the zone it left behind, and the break of the last minor swing inside the correction. Indicators lag these events, which is why many traders find a clean chart easier to execute from.