Learn the Turtle Soup strategy and how to trade market reversals. Discover how Michael Huddleston’s ICT framework uses institutional liquidity to profit from false breakouts.

If you’ve ever felt like the market waits for you to enter a breakout just so it can hit your stop and then go in your direction, you aren't crazy. You’re just the liquidity.
Trading the Turtle Soup strategy with a focus on specific entry and exit signals, including price action triggers and stop-loss placement.







The Turtle Soup strategy is a reversal-based approach refined by Michael Huddleston within the ICT framework. It focuses on identifying false breakouts where the market moves past a major high or low only to reverse direction. Instead of following the trend like traditional breakout traders, this strategy seeks to profit from the 'engineered traps' that catch the herd off guard, allowing traders to capitalize on the resulting price shift.
The name 'Turtle Soup' is a cheeky reference to the famous Turtle Traders of the 1980s who were known for buying every 20-day high. While the original Turtles focused on trend-following breakouts, this strategy 'cooks the turtles' by trading against those very moves. It assumes that modern market breakouts are often false signals designed to generate institutional liquidity, making it more profitable to trade the failure of the breakout rather than the trend itself.
In the ICT framework, false breakouts are viewed as intentional moves designed to create institutional liquidity. When the price breaks a significant level, it triggers the 'herd' to enter the market, creating a pool of orders that large institutional players use to fill their own positions. By understanding that these moves are often traps, traders using the Turtle Soup strategy can avoid being caught in a reversal and instead position themselves to profit as the market pulls back.
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