Smart Money Concept

Lessons in this module

1. 11.1

   The logic of institutional capital vs retail indicators

   Understand how the approach of large capital differs from classic indicators

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2. 11.2

   Market structure in SMC: BOS and CHoCH

   Identify changes and confirmation of market structure through BOS and CHoCH

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3. 11.3

   Order Blocks

   Find the zones of interest of large market participants

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4. 11.4

   Fair Value Gap (FVG) and price imbalance

   Recognize price imbalance and FVG zones

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5. 11.5

   Displacement: which candle has the right to leave an FVG

   Filter out random gaps: a gap counts as an imbalance only if an impulse candle with a sizable body left it

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6. 11.6

   FVG life cycle: shrinking, partial fill, mitigation

   Follow the zone after it appears: price bites off edge after edge, and a half-filled gap no longer works like a fresh one

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7. 11.7

   BPR: overlapping opposite FVGs

   Find the area where a bullish and a bearish gap overlap, and understand why it is stronger than either of them alone

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8. 11.8

   Zone equilibrium (EQ) and reactions to it

   Read the middle of a zone as a level of its own: a bounce off EQ and a drop through it say different things

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9. 11.9

   Zone strength by the number of touches

   Tell a zone the market respects apart from one it has already eaten through, and do not count every bar inside it as a touch

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10. 11.10

    Liquidity zones and stop hunting

    Find zones where stops cluster and understand the logic of stop hunting

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11. 11.11

    Premium/discount zones and OTE

    Identify optimal entry zones through premium/discount

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12. 11.12

    The Accumulation-Manipulation-Distribution (AMD) model

    Use the AMD model to mark the phases of the intraday market cycle

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13. 11.13

    Combining SMC with classic TA: a case study

    Work through a comprehensive case that combines SMC and classic technical analysis

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14. 11.14

    Breaker Block: the block after a structure break

    Find the candle from which price went on to break structure, and read its zone as a return area, with a continuation, trap or mitigation role

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15. 11.15

    Merging overlapping zones

    Merge zones that overlap by the share of overlap and how close their midpoints are, otherwise one area turns into a fence of five rectangles

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16. 11.16

    Zone life cycle: fresh, swept, broken, retested

    Track a zone as an object with a state rather than a picture: the same place works differently depending on what has already happened to it; in history an order block retest reversed no more often than a random entry, so the zone's state is context, not a signal

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17. 11.17

    Inverse FVG and breaker: a broken zone works the other way

    Understand the main reversal of meaning in SMC: a gap or block broken straight through stops being support and becomes resistance, and must now be traded the other way

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18. 11.18

    Equal highs and lows (EQH/EQL)

    Find two or more extremes at the same level: double liquidity sits there, and the market comes for it more often than for a single extreme

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