ICC A journal tells you what happened in your trades. It cannot give you more chances to look at a chart. Most traders see only a few real setups a week, so the skill of reading price grows slowly. Short, focused practice between sessions helps, as long as you check afterwards that it changed something in your real trading. This article shows one simple way to do both.
What the ICC Chart Challenge is
The ICC Chart Challenge is a free trading game made by ICC Charts, our sister product inside ICC Terminal. You see real price charts and answer questions about ICT concepts, for example which marked area is a bullish fair value gap. Every right answer scores points, and answering several in a row builds a combo.
- Free to play with a free ICC Charts account. No card and no deposit.
- Daily Challenge: one new set of charts every day, the same for every player.
- Leaderboard: today, this week and all time.
- Weekly prizes: the top players of the week win free ICC Charts plan days. The prizes are never cash.
The rules, scoring and tips are explained in the How to play guide.
Why practice on charts helps a journaling trader
When you review a losing trade in your journal, the reason is often a misread chart: the entry was taken from a zone that was not really there, or the move had already happened. Recognising patterns faster and more accurately reduces those mistakes. A game gives you many more examples in ten minutes than a week of live trading, with an instant answer each time.
Practice is not trading, though. A game has no slippage, no fear and no money at risk. That is why the second half of the routine, checking your real results, matters.
A simple routine: play, trade, review
- Before the session: play the Daily Challenge. Ten minutes is enough. Notice which questions you got wrong.
- During the session: trade your normal plan. Do not change your rules because of one game.
- After the session: open your trades in ICC Zillas. Tag the setup you used, rate the trade and add a short note on how you read the chart. If you used an ICT setup such as a fair value gap, keep it as a playbook so its rules are ticked on every trade.
How the journal proves the practice works
Feeling sharper is not proof. Your numbers are. After a few weeks of the routine, compare the period before and after in your reports:
- Playbook results: did the win rate or the average R of your main setup improve?
- Mistake tags: do you tag "bad entry" or "wrong zone" less often than before?
- Rules followed: are more of your playbook rules ticked on each trade?
- Trade replay: replay a few losers bar by bar and ask if you would now read the chart differently.
If the numbers do not move, change the practice, not the journal. Focus the game on the concept that appears most in your losing trades. The ICC Zillas guide explains tags, playbooks, reports and replay step by step.
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Play today's Daily Challenge on ICC Charts with a free account, then import your trades into ICC Zillas and write your first review. Small practice every day, checked against real results every week, is how reading charts turns into an edge.
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