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Market Radar Methodology

ICT Unicorn Setup: Breaker Block and FVG Confluence Search & ICT Unicorn Setup: Breaker Block and FVG Confluence Scanner

The ICT Unicorn Setup identifies an opposing displacement-qualified Order Block that fails and flips into a Breaker Block, while the structure-shifting displacement creates a same-direction FVG overlapping that Breaker.

ICT Breaker Block and FVG overlap

The ICT Unicorn model combines two structures. An opposing Order Block first fails and flips into a Breaker Block. The displacement that shifts market structure must also create a same-direction fair value gap.

Aventra requires the Breaker Block and FVG to overlap. Their shared area becomes the Unicorn zone reviewed for a current bullish or bearish retest.

  • Failed opposing Order Block
  • Breaker displacement through structure
  • Same-direction FVG
  • Positive Breaker and FVG overlap
  • Current retest near the shared zone

How to interpret a Unicorn candidate

A clear sequence matters more than either zone by itself: failed block, structure-shifting displacement, FVG creation, overlap, then retest. Candidates weaken when that chronology is unclear or the shared zone is very small.

The setup is invalidated when price crosses the directional far boundary of the Breaker and shared overlap area.

Detection Focus

  • Failed opposing Order Block
  • Directional market structure displacement
  • Same-direction FVG created around the break
  • Positive Breaker/FVG overlap
  • Current close retesting the shared zone

Quality Signals

  • Original and breaker displacement strength
  • Breaker/FVG overlap
  • Zone recency
  • Retest proximity

Invalidation

  • Price crosses the Breaker far boundary
  • The shared zone loses directional support or resistance
  • Opposing structure takes control
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ICT Unicorn Setup: Breaker Block and FVG Confluence Search & ICT Unicorn Setup: Breaker Block and FVG Confluence Scanner | Aventra