Glossary & vocabulary reconciliation
Your library is 2013–2017 ICT. Most of what you've watched since isn't.
Every one of the 470 extracted text layers in your library was searched for the terms in circulation today. 7 of them appear zero times. If you have been supplementing with modern ICT content — almost everyone has — you have been trying to reconcile two vocabularies that only partly overlap, using terms your own PDFs never define. That is not a failure of understanding on your part. The material is internally coherent; the two sources aren't.
| Modern term | Files | What your library calls it | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Displacement | 0 | no equivalent | Not in your material, in any form. The idea it points at — a fast, one-directional move that leaves an inefficiency — is in your library as Expansion (Month 1) and as the Liquidity Void. Note that STRATEGY_DELIVERABLE.md uses "displacement" as a coined mechanical gate (≥1.5×ATR); that is an invention of that document, not a term from this library, and it is labelled as such there and here. → M1 |
| Propulsion block | 0 | no equivalent | Not in your material. Do not go looking for it. The nearest concept you own is the order block that price respects a second time — which Month 4 handles under Selecting & Avoiding. |
| Consequent encroachment | 0 | no equivalent | Not in your material. Its 50%-of-the-gap idea is present, though, as the Mean Threshold — Month 4 uses the mean threshold of an order block for exactly this purpose. → M5 |
| Silver bullet | 0 | no equivalent | Not in your material at all. It is a post-2022 model. Your library's equivalent slot is the killzone plus the Judas swing. → M9 |
| Unicorn model | 0 | no equivalent | Not in your material. It combines a breaker with an FVG — both of which you do own, separately, in Month 4. → M7 |
| Phantom divergence | 0 | no equivalent | Not in your material. SMT divergence is, and is covered properly in M11. → M11 |
| Inversion FVG | 0 | no equivalent | Not in your material. The nearest owned idea is the breaker: a level that failed and then works from the other side. → M7 |
| Liquidity sweep | 0 | Run on a Liquidity Pool / stop run | The phrase "liquidity sweep" does not appear, but the mechanic is defined precisely in Month 4 p.97 as a Run On Liquidity Pool, with a validation condition. Same thing, stricter wording. → M2 |
| Imbalance / inefficiency | 6 | Fair Value Gap · Liquidity Void | Your library splits what modern content merges. The FVG is the small one-directional section; the liquidity void is the larger porous range. Month 4 p.86 explicitly links them: an FVG is confirmed by a liquidity void on the lower timeframe. → M6 |
| Order block | 20 | Orderblock | Same word, much stricter definition. Month 4 requires a validation event before it is an order block at all. Most of what gets marked online would fail it. → M5 |
| Market structure shift (MSS) / BOS | 4 | Market Structure Shift | It exists in your library but is rare and is used loosely — it appears in a handful of files. The rigorous structure tool you own is the short/intermediate/long-term swing hierarchy from ICT Core Concepts. → M3 |
| Premium / discount arrays | 17 | PD Array Matrix | This is the part of your library that is *stronger* than most modern material: a ranked ladder, not a loose pair of labels. → M8 |
| Breaker block | 4 | Breaker Block | Defined once, exactly, in Month 4 p.53 and p.55 — and with a stated ideal context (major-to-intermediate-term trends) that most retellings drop. → M7 |
| Judas swing | 21 | Market Protraction / Judas Swing | Month 1 p.31 gives the current name and the older one in the same paragraph. Well covered in your library. → M9 |
| Killzone | 19 | Kill Zone | Fully covered, across 19 files. → M9 |
| Vacuum block | 1 | Vacuum Block | Appears in exactly one file. Real, minor, and named once in M6 so it stops being a mystery. → M6 |
“Files” is the number of your 470 extracted text layers that
contain the term at all — regenerated by npm run vocab, never
typed by hand. A count of zero means the term is genuinely absent from your
library, not merely rare.
Terms this course uses, defined by the source
The full verbatim text of each one is on the one-page reference, and the deck puts them on a spaced-repetition schedule so the wording stops drifting.
- Bearish Breaker Block Month 4 Notes, p.53
- A high got run, then the swing low that supported the move up got broken. Trapped buyers are waiting at that low to get out flat.
- Bearish Rejection Block Month 4 Notes, p.62
- The wicks are the evidence: buy stops were taken, and price would not stay up there.
- Bullish Breaker Block Month 4 Notes, p.55
- The mirror. Note that ICT's own slide says "The Sellers that sold this Low" where the structure is a Swing High — the wording is his; the mechanism is the trapped short.
- Bullish Orderblock Month 4 Notes, p.20
- Four separate skills in one definition — and the second one, validation, is the one almost nobody applies.
- Bullish Rejection Block Month 4 Notes, p.68
- Same mechanism, other side. The level you use is the body, not the wick.
- Consolidation Month 1 Notes, p.15
- Price goes sideways so orders can build on both sides. The single thing you look for is the 50% of that range.
- Equilibrium vs. Discount Month 1 Notes, p.25
- Below the 50% of the leg you measured, you are permitted to look for buys.
- Expansion Month 1 Notes, p.9
- Price leaves the middle of a range fast. The single thing you look for is the order block it left behind.
- External vs. Internal Range Liquidity Month 4 Notes, p.19
- External = where price is going (the destination). Internal = what it touches on the way (the route).
- Fair Valuation Month 1 Notes, p.28
- Where the move gets settled. Note what he uses it for: taking profit, not only entering.
- Fair Value Gap Month 1 Notes, p.29 also called: imbalance, inefficiency, BISI / SIBI
- A short stretch of one-directional delivery. It is either a target or an entry — which one depends on context, not on the gap.
- Fair Value Gap (Month 4 restatement) Month 4 Notes, p.86
- The link between the two: an FVG on your chart is a liquidity void on a lower timeframe. Same phenomenon, different resolution.
- IPDA / the True Day Month 1 Notes, p.7
- The day that matters runs 00:00–15:00 New York time. Outside it, price is less predictable — his word, not a rule invented here.
- Liquidity Void Month 1 Notes, p.27 also called: imbalance (loosely)
- The footprint of a fast run: a stretch of chart that was barely traded, and tends to get revisited.
- Liquidity Void (Month 4 restatement) Month 4 Notes, p.76
- The same idea stated structurally: one-sided delivery, so one side of the book never traded there.
- Low Resistance Liquidity Run Month 1 Notes, p.30
- The definition of a high-probability setup in this material: an obvious pool, and nothing in the way.
- Market Protraction / the Judas Swing Month 1 Notes, p.31
- The move that has been stopping you out has a name, a cause, and a schedule.
- Market structure hierarchy ICT Core Concepts
- Structure is countable, not an opinion. Three tiers, each defined only by the tier below it.
- Mitigation Block Month 4 Notes, p.32
- A → B → C. Longs bought at A, are underwater after C, and get their chance to exit flat when price comes back to A.
- Retracement Month 1 Notes, p.11
- Price comes back into the range it just made. The single thing you look for is the inefficiency it left — the gap or the void.
- Reversal Month 1 Notes, p.13
- Direction changes because stops were run. The single thing you look for is the pool of stops that got taken.
- Run On Bullish Liquidity Pool Month 4 Notes, p.97
- The causal sentence of the whole method: stops becoming market orders is what supplies the other side of a large position.
- The PD Array Matrix Month 6 Notes, p.25
- The selection rule. Arrays are not competing signals; they are stations on a route, and premium/discount tells you which half you are shopping from.
- Timeframes by trading style Market Structure
- This is the sentence that defines the course's default track: swing trading is daily / 4H / 1H, and the daily leads.
- Vacuum Block Month 4 Notes, p.71
- A news-event gap. It appears once in your whole library, so the course names it and moves on.
- What to focus on (liquidity) Month 1 Notes, p.17
- The whole of what you are looking at on a chart, in seven lines. Note the last two: a swing point is a three-candle pattern, not an opinion.