The standard
Every article on ICTKillzone.com is written with one goal: accuracy. ICT methodology is technical, precise, and frequently misrepresented across the internet. Conflating concepts, omitting criteria, or oversimplifying rules produces traders who understand a shallow version of the methodology and get hurt by the difference.
So when this site says a valid order block requires a preceding liquidity sweep, that claim is traceable to ICT source material. When it gives specific Fibonacci levels for OTE, those numbers are the ones Michael J. Huddleston teaches. Where a guide offers its own analytical framing rather than doctrine, it says so.
Who writes this site
ICTKillzone.com is a one-person project. Michael Phillips writes and maintains every guide on the site. There is no editorial team and no rotating cast of contributors.
That is a real limitation and it is worth stating plainly: there is no second reviewer here to catch a mistake before it publishes. What there is instead is a single consistent set of definitions across all 104 guides, a corrections policy that is actually used, and a rule against writing anything that cannot be checked against a primary source.
Michael Phillips
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How articles are written
Research. Before an article is drafted, the relevant concepts are studied from primary sources: Michael J. Huddleston’s recorded content, transcripts, and the material he has published publicly. Exact criteria, specific levels, and the precise language used to describe each concept get noted at this stage.
Drafting. Every guide covers the specific criteria required for a valid setup, not just a high-level description. If a concept cannot be pinned to a primary source, it does not get written. That rule has cost this site articles it would otherwise have published, and it is the right trade.
Verification. Before publication, claims are checked back against the source material, and diagrams are checked to confirm they illustrate the concept described rather than a superficially similar one. This is a check by the same person who wrote the article. It is not an independent review and this site does not claim it is one.
Publication standard. An article publishes only when it is complete: identification, validity criteria, entry and stop placement, common mistakes, and at least one full walkthrough. No stub articles.
What the worked examples are
Every guide contains a walkthrough with specific prices, levels, and a summary table. These are illustrative teaching sequences. They are constructed to show how a setup is structured and how the criteria stack together.
They are not records of trades taken, they are not screenshots of live positions, and they are not evidence of what any strategy returns. Nothing on this site is presented as a trading record, because this site does not publish one. Diagrams are custom illustrations, not annotated screenshots passed off as live sessions.
Corrections
Errors get corrected. If a concept is described incorrectly, a criterion is wrong, or a diagram is misleading, it gets fixed promptly and visibly, without hiding that a correction was made.
Substantive corrections, where the meaning or practical application of a concept changes, are noted at the top of the affected article with the correction date. Minor corrections such as typos, formatting, and broken links are fixed silently.
If you believe anything on this site is inaccurate, please get in touch with a specific description of the error and, where possible, a reference to the primary source that contradicts it. Every credible correction report gets investigated.
Updates
ICT methodology evolves, and Huddleston has explained the same idea differently in 2017, 2022 and 2024. Where the primary source material has moved, the guides are updated to reflect the current understanding rather than the version taught years ago. Where the definitions genuinely diverge between eras, the guide describes the divergence instead of quietly picking one.
Articles display the date they were last reviewed. Reviewed means a person read the article and confirmed it is still accurate, not simply that it was published that year.
Independence and commercial relationships
ICTKillzone.com is an independent educational resource with no commercial relationship to Michael J. Huddleston, Inner Circle Trader, or any affiliated product or service. No payment is received to promote any ICT course, mentorship programme, or prop firm.
There are no advertisements on this site, no sponsored content, and no articles written in exchange for links or payment.
One disclosure. A separate paid TradingView indicator, built by the same person who writes these guides, is in development and is promoted on this site. It is clearly marked as a product wherever it appears. The education is free and complete regardless of whether anyone ever buys it, and no guide has been shaped to steer readers toward it.
Experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trust
Google’s quality guidelines ask that content demonstrate experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness. Those are the right standards for a financial education resource, so here is how this site meets them and where it does not.
Experience. The guides are written by someone who studied this framework directly from the source material and uses it. What this site does not do is publish a trading record, win rate, or equity curve, and it will not start. Any site that shows you one is asking you to trust a number you cannot verify.
Expertise. This site covers ICT methodology and nothing else. Depth of coverage, not breadth of topic, is the claim being made.
Authoritativeness. Claims about how ICT concepts work are traceable to primary source material, and Huddleston is credited and linked throughout. Where a guide offers analytical framing of its own, it labels it.
Trustworthiness. Errors get corrected, the one commercial interest is disclosed above, authorship is named and shown rather than hidden behind initials, and this site is honest about what ICT trading is: a methodology with real skill requirements and a genuine risk of loss, not a system that produces money.