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Stats since 2023

The index, by the numbers

Three years of ICT traders asking questions — over 1.3 million of them. Here is what the community studies, when it studies, and how the meta has shifted.

1.3M+

Questions answered

since April 2023

396K+

Unique questions

nearly 400,000 distinct asks

86%

Rated helpful

5,640 of 6,568 rated answers

Volume

Three years of questions

Monthly question volume since launch. The June 2023 surge peaked at 70,245 questions in a single month — and June 2026 was the busiest month in over a year.

Questions per month · Jul 2026 excluded (partial)

Timing

Questions follow the killzones

Share of all questions asked in each hour, New York time. The peak lands at 10am ET — inside the AM Silver Bullet window — at more than double the overnight rate. London questions peak at 2–3am ET, and daily-bias questions spike at 8–9am, right before the open.

Questions per 10k, by hour (ET) · peak 612 per 10k at 10am

Concepts

The meta, 2023 → 2026

Share of typed questions mentioning each concept, per 10,000. FVG is up +100% and is now the undisputed #1, SMT divergence tripled, and OTE roared back in 2026 — while Silver Bullet gave up 62% from its 2023 hype peak. CRT didn't exist in the data before 2024.

Mentions per 10k typed questions · suggested prompts excluded

Markets

The migration to index futures

Mentions of NQ + ES versus forex pairs, per 10,000 questions. Index futures overtook forex in 2024 and never looked back — futures talk is up nearly 9× since 2023 and now outruns forex five to one.

Instrument mentions per 10k questions, by year

Discipline

No days off

Share of weekly traffic by day. Sunday beats Monday and runs 8% ahead of Friday — the week is won in the Sunday review.

Questions per 10k, by weekday (ET)

Verdict

86% rated helpful

Every answer can be rated. Across 6,568 votes over three years, 86% came back thumbs-up.

5,640 helpful · 928 not helpful

Vocabulary

Most-looked-up concepts

The most-repeated typed lookups of all time. The community's vocabulary runs deep — half of these are acronyms newer traders have to earn.

  1. 01Turtle Soup
    7,196
  2. 02CISD
    5,310
  3. 03Order Block
    4,670
  4. 04IOFED
    4,551
  5. 05IPDA
    4,423
  6. 06Rejection Block
    4,403
  7. 07Macro
    4,295
  8. 08iFVG
    4,104
  9. 09Breaker Block
    3,854
  10. 10MMXM
    3,471

Exact repeated lookups, all time · typed only

Off-script

The weirdest questions

1.3 million questions and not all of them were about the charts. A few favorites from the logs — verbatim, typos and all.

“How do I get a girlfriend with ict concepts”
liquidity is not the only thing being swept
“Michael’s daughter is beautiful??? Will she marry me?”
high-resistance liquidity run
“Did ICT talk about aliens anywhere?”
asked more than once
“Is Michael my dad?”
the mentorship runs deep
“Does ICT have a mortgage”
doing due diligence
“Should I quit my job after making 100k at 19 and still live with parents”
a killzone of its own
“Astrology in trading”
mercury was probably in retrograde
“100% winrate using the draw on liquidity and time”
still searching
“Does ICT have a son named caden”
followed by “cameron”, then “cody” — three attempts
“Is trading lonely”
asked at 3am, probably