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How to Find Trading Entries in 2026 With the ICC Framework From SCI

How I Find My Trading Entries | Trading Course 003

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· based on the channel SCI

Key takeaways

  • SCI's "Trading Course 003" breaks down how entries are selected, not just where price reacts.
  • The ICC framework — Indication, Correction, Continuation — is the backbone of the entry model taught on the channel.
  • Entry timing is the skill traders underestimate most: the same level works or fails depending on when you take it.
  • Marking up charts in advance is what turns a chaotic session into a short list of tradeable levels.
  • Risk management and emotional control repeatedly show up as the real difference between winning and losing traders.

Finding trading entries is not about predicting the next candle. It is about marking up your chart in advance, waiting for price to reach a level you already identified, and executing only when the market confirms the setup — the approach SCI walks through in "Trading Course 003." The full breakdown comes from the SCI channel, and the fastest way to follow the trader behind it day to day is his Instagram at Trades By Sci on Instagram, where setups and trade recaps are posted live.

Why entry timing decides whether a good level works

A level is only half the trade. The other half is when you press the button, and this is the part most retail traders never train deliberately.

The same support or resistance can produce a clean winner or a stop-out depending on the moment of entry. If you enter while price is still chopping inside a range, you pay for the spread, absorb the drawdown, and often get stopped right before the actual move. If you wait for structure to confirm — a break, a retest, a rejection with momentum — the same idea becomes a controlled trade with a defined invalidation point.

This is why entry timing looks simple in hindsight and feels brutal in real time. In the comment section under SCI's course videos, one recurring theme is exactly this: traders who understand the concept on paper still struggle when the chart is moving. The fix is mechanical, not motivational — predefine the condition that must be true before you click, and refuse the trade if it is not there.

The ICC framework behind SCI's entry model

ICC stands for Indication, Correction, Continuation, and it is the structure that organises the whole entry process rather than a single signal.

  1. Indication — the market shows its hand. Price displaces aggressively in one direction, leaving an imbalance behind. That displacement is the indication that a side has been chosen.
  2. Correction — price pulls back into the area left behind by the indication. This is the retracement phase, and it is where most impatient traders enter too early.
  3. Continuation — price resumes in the direction of the original displacement. The continuation is the confirmation that the correction is over and the entry is valid.

The practical value of ICC is that it removes discretion from the worst possible place — the moment of execution. You are not asking "does this look good right now?" You are asking three fixed questions: has displacement occurred, has the correction reached my area, and has continuation begun? If any answer is no, there is no trade.

How to mark up a chart before the session starts

Marking up is the step that separates a prepared trader from a reactive one, and it happens before any position is considered.

Start from the higher timeframe. Identify the levels where price has previously displaced — swing highs and lows that were broken with force, not the ones that were gently tested. Those areas are your candidates. Then drop to your execution timeframe and mark the zone where a correction would logically terminate: the origin of the last impulse, the edge of an imbalance, or the level that previously flipped from resistance to support.

Once the levels are drawn, write the condition next to each one. Not "buy here," but "buy if price corrects into this zone and shows continuation." That single sentence is the difference between a plan and a hope. A chart with three marked levels and three written conditions is a working chart; a chart with twenty lines and no conditions is decoration.

A useful discipline is to cap the list. If you cannot narrow your markup to a handful of levels, you have not made a decision — you have made a map of everything, which is the same as making no decision at all.

Execution rules that keep entries clean

Execution is where the plan either survives contact with the market or falls apart, so the rules need to be boring and repeatable.

  • Wait for the correction to finish, not to start. Entering at the first touch of a zone means sitting through the rest of the pullback with an open position.
  • Define invalidation before entry. If the setup is a continuation, the trade is wrong the moment structure that should have held breaks.
  • Size from the stop, not from the target. Position size is a function of how far your invalidation sits from your entry, not of how much you want to make.
  • One entry per idea. Re-entering the same level after being stopped usually means you are negotiating with the market instead of reading it.
  • Skip low-quality sessions. Thin liquidity produces messy corrections that look like setups and behave like traps.

These rules matter more than the pattern you trade. Two traders can take the same ICC setup and get opposite results purely because one sized correctly and the other did not.

Common questions traders ask about entries

A few doubts come up again and again among people working through this material, and they are worth addressing directly.

"I understand the concept but still hesitate live." That is normal and it is a training problem, not a knowledge problem. Hesitation fades when the condition for entry is written down and the same setup has been executed dozens of times in a demo or small-size account. Familiarity is built through repetition, not through more videos.

"My entries are fine but my results are not." Look at exits and risk before you touch entries. A trader can have a genuinely good entry model and still lose because a single oversized position erases a week of correct decisions. The comment threads under these course videos are full of traders who describe exactly that — good reads, poor risk control, painful lessons.

"Do I need to trade the New York session?" No. Traders working night shifts or living in awkward time zones report making better decisions in quieter hours precisely because there is less noise to react to. The session matters far less than whether the setup condition is actually met.

"How many setups should I take per day?" Fewer than you think. The markup process exists to filter, and a filtered list of two or three levels means most sessions produce zero or one valid entry. Sitting out is a position.

The takeaway for anyone building an entry model

Entry selection is a process, not a talent: mark up the chart first, define the condition that makes a level tradeable, and only then allow execution. The ICC structure — indication, correction, continuation — gives that process a fixed sequence, which is exactly what removes hesitation from the moment that matters. Risk control and emotional discipline sit on top of the model and often decide the outcome more than the pattern does. SCI builds this out step by step in the Trading Course series on the channel, and the day-to-day application of it is posted continuously at Trades By Sci on Instagram — start there, then go mark up a chart before the next session opens.

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Questions & answers

What does ICC mean in SCI's trading course?

ICC stands for Indication, Correction and Continuation. Indication is the initial displacement that shows which side is in control, correction is the pullback into the area left behind, and continuation is the resumption of the original move. The entry is taken on the continuation, not on the first touch of the zone.

Why do I understand the setup but still lose money on entries?

Understanding a concept and executing it under live conditions are two different skills. Most losses at this stage come from entering before the correction has finished, sizing positions too large relative to the stop, or re-entering a level after being stopped out. Writing the entry condition down and repeating the setup at small size fixes the hesitation over time.

Do I need to trade during the New York session to get good entries?

No. Session choice matters less than whether your setup condition is actually met. Traders in awkward time zones often report clearer decisions in quieter hours because there is less noise and fewer impulsive clicks. Thin liquidity does produce messier corrections, so adjust expectations rather than forcing trades.

How many trade entries should I take in a day?

Usually very few. The markup process is designed to filter your chart down to a handful of levels, and most sessions will produce zero or one valid entry. Taking fewer, better-prepared trades is the point of the framework, not a limitation of it.

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