ICT + Price Action | XAUUSD & EURUSD [v6]

ICT + Price Action | XAUUSD & EURUSD [v6] at a glance

Kind of rule	Chart turning points (price action and market structure)
Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Built on	ATR, EMA, RSI, VWAP
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Tested on	67 cells: 13 coins, October 2021 to June 2026, no fee
Cells that placed a trade	54 of 67
Middle result before fees	−1.6%
Cells above zero	9 of 54
Middle drawdown before fees	2.4%
Page updated	2026-11-08

ICT + Price Action | XAUUSD & EURUSD [v6] backtest results, every cell

Every cell is in the picture, not only the strongest. To the right of the black line is above zero. The orange line, when you see one, is the middle.

How ICT + Price Action | XAUUSD & EURUSD [v6] works

Rules in this group usually work like this. It tries to act the way a person reading a chart would: at spots where price turned, at gaps, and at places where many people are likely to have set a stop. In code those ideas become counts of bars. The result depends on how those spots are defined. The next paragraph is this particular rule, which can be narrower than the group.

It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices. It acts only when several checks agree at once. It leans on ATR, EMA, RSI, VWAP; those names are explained on their own pages, further down. The exact line is in the list below, in the author's names, and you can skip that list. When it enters, it also sets a stop or a target, so a trade can close without a new signal.

Each trade uses 2 percent of the account. It holds one trade at a time.

The exact condition, from the code

Same rule, translated from the code, in the author's names. You can skip this list if the paragraph above was enough.

• Enters long when (in london or in newyork) and bullish trend and (not (Enable VWAP Direction Filter (on)) or the close is above VWAP) and the 14-period RSI of the close is below Overbought Level (70) and (high 2 bars ago is below the low or bull order block or the previous bull pinbar) and no position is open.
• Enters short when (in london or in newyork) and bearish trend and (not (Enable VWAP Direction Filter (on)) or the close is below VWAP) and the 14-period RSI of the close is above Oversold Level (30) and (low 2 bars ago is above the high or bear order block or the previous bear pinbar) and no position is open.
• On entry, places a stop at (the close − (Stop Loss (× ATR) (1.5) × the 14-period ATR)), a target at (the close + (Take Profit (× ATR) (2.5) × the 14-period ATR)).
• On entry, places a stop at (the close + (Stop Loss (× ATR) (1.5) × the 14-period ATR)), a target at (the close − (Take Profit (× ATR) (2.5) × the 14-period ATR)).

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	ATR, EMA, RSI, VWAP
A second chart speed	No. It uses one chart speed only.
Only at certain hours	No.
Adding to a trade	It holds one trade at a time.
How much it trades	Each trade uses 2 percent of the account.
Cost the author assumed	The author assumed a trading cost of 0.01 percent per side.

Default settings

The test used the defaults in the middle column. Nothing was turned to help a coin.

Setting	Default	Group
Fast EMA Length	50	Trend Filter
Slow EMA Length	200	Trend Filter
ATR Length	14	Risk Management
Stop Loss (× ATR)	1.5	Risk Management
Take Profit (× ATR)	2.5	Risk Management
RSI Length	14	RSI Filter
Overbought Level	70	RSI Filter
Oversold Level	30	RSI Filter
London KZ Start (UTC hour)	7	Kill Zones
London KZ End (UTC hour)	10	Kill Zones
New York KZ Start (UTC hour)	12	Kill Zones
New York KZ End (UTC hour)	15	Kill Zones
Enable VWAP Direction Filter	on	VWAP
Show Fair Value Gap Boxes	on	Visuals
Show Kill Zone Shading	on	Visuals
Show Info Table	on	Visuals

How the backtest was run

Every strategy was tried the same way, on the settings the author published.

The years are October 2021 to June 2026. The prices are from Bybit, for 13 widely traded coins, mostly on hourly, 4-hour and daily charts, with some faster charts. That was 47,242 tries. The window stored in the files is 2021-09..2026-06.

599 rules produced a finished try. A rule that finished above zero on at least 12 cells, before any fee, was tried again with a fee of 0.12 percent per side. Only buys are counted in that second try. 273 rules got it.

The method, the aggregate results and a downloadable table are on the study page. What the desk does with the results beyond these pages is its own.

Before any fee, it was tried on 67 cells. It placed a trade on 54 of them. 9 of the cells that traded finished above zero (16.7%).

It was not run a second time with a fee. That second pass happens only when at least 12 cells finished above zero before fees. 273 rules got that pass.

Cells tried	67
Cells that placed a trade	54
Finished above zero	9 (16.7% of the cells that traded)
Middle result, before fees	−1.6%
Strongest cell, the top of the range	AVAX 4-hour: +3.4%
Weakest cell, the bottom of the range	ADA 5-minute: −70.4%
Middle drawdown, before fees	2.4%

Label: backtest · old prices, zero commission · Oct 2021 – Jun 2026. Hypothetical results; see the risk disclosure.

How to read the result

How to read the number

The median of every cell that traded is the result. No fee has been taken off, so the number is a ceiling. A fee comes off each trade, and this page does not guess that cost, because this rule did not get the second pass where the fee is applied. The weakest and the strongest cells are not a result on their own.

The middle drawdown, on the cells that traded, was 2.4%.

What this does not show

The useful question is how the turning points are counted in the code. A person can be vague. The code has to count bars.

Nothing on this page was fit to the cell that finished highest. One coin, one chart speed, or one strong stretch is a single row. It is not the rule. Other years, another exchange, or another fee would be a different measurement.

Questions about ICT + Price Action | XAUUSD & EURUSD [v6]

Words used on this page

Backtest

The rule was tried on old prices. No real money moved.

Cell

One coin on one chart speed. Bitcoin every 4 hours is one cell. Bitcoin once a day is another.

Chart speed

How often a new price bar is drawn. 15m means every 15 minutes, 1h means hourly, 4h means every 4 hours, 1D means once a day.

Fee, per side

A cost taken each time the rule trades. Per side means once on the way in and once on the way out.

Median

Line the cells up from the biggest loss to the biggest gain. The median is the middle one. Half the cells did better and half did worse.

Drawdown

The deepest fall from a high point along the way, as a percent of the account at that high.

Above zero

The account finished with more than it started.

The indicators ICT + Price Action | XAUUSD & EURUSD [v6] uses

Each has its own page: what it measures, how it is read, where it misleads.

• ATR (average true range): the volatility number behind most stops
• Exponential moving average (EMA): what it measures and where it misleads
• RSI (relative strength index): the formula, the 70/30 rule, and why it misleads in trends
• VWAP: the volume-weighted average price, and why its anchor is the whole question

"ICT + Price Action | XAUUSD & EURUSD [v6]" was published on TradingView by its author, under the author's own license. This page is an independent reading of those rules and of what they did on these old prices. It is not written with the author, and it is not a recommendation. Not every detail survives the translation onto this page, so read the original before you rely on it.