I stopped manually drawing OBs and FVGs every time. Top 5 TradingView indicators actually used by ICT traders
"Opening the chart today as well, the first thing I do is the same as always."
"Scroll back to the higher timeframe to eyeball swing highs and lows, count the FVG one by one, and circle the candlesticks that resemble order blocks."
"I repeat this every day for the number of currency pairs."
If you have any inkling, I will tell you honestly.
That task is not painful because of your market sense.
There is simply an impossibility in the act of 'continuously finding' with the human eye itself.
I have 20 years of FX experience, and I took a detour before realizing this essence.
As a former engineer for 20 years, I had an inclination to verify the mechanism before using it, but for some reason I believed chart analysis was done by 'willpower and visual inspection' alone.
In reality, that wasn’t the case.
Stability in analysis improved after deliberately handing off hand-drawn work to tools.
Why do people cling to hand-drawing?
The reason is simple.
In the moments you 'find' something, emotional feedback lingers, but in the moments you 'miss' something, you often just close the chart and end it.
In other words, only successful experiences accumulate in memory, while misses do not.
Therefore, without realizing it, an illusion that visual inspection alone is enough gradually grows.
This is not a matter of weak will.
It is a systemic issue of human attention limits.
From here on, I will faithfully present the ICT (Inner Circle Trader) perspective, and concretely share the TradingView indicators I actually continue to use, by selection criteria.
Name, function, and current form of availability are based on publicly available information at the time of writing the article.
◆ Three criteria for choosing indicators from the ICT perspective
If you search for "ICT" on TradingView, countless scripts appear. It is a mix of quality. If you choose by your own standards here, you’ll take a long detour. The three criteria I actually use for filtering are as follows.
Faithfulness to ICT definitions — whether the judgment logic for BOS (Break of Structure), CHoCH (Change of Character), FVG (Fair Value Gap), OB (Order Block) has not been distorted by the creator's own methods
No repaint — tools that look nicely in past data but change judgments in real time cannot be used in practice
Designed to wait with alerts — if you cannot reduce monitoring effort, replacing hand-drawn work with a tool loses its meaning
Based on these three criteria, the five indicators I actually tried and kept are the ones in the ranking I will introduce.
