Smart money concepts guides

Smart money concepts in plain words: market structure, order blocks, fair value gaps, liquidity and the retest that traders wait for.

Smart money concepts chart showing market structure, an order block zone, a fair value gap and a liquidity sweep

Smart money concepts18 Sept 202622 min read

Smart Money Concepts: A Complete Trading Guide

Smart money concepts explained without the mystique: market structure, break of structure, order blocks, fair value gaps, liquidity and premium versus discount.

Order block marked on a candlestick chart, showing the last down candle before a rally and the retest of that zone

Smart money concepts18 Sept 202617 min read

Order Blocks Explained: How to Mark and Trade Them

Order blocks explained candle by candle: the last opposing candle rule, bullish and bearish zones, refining, breaker and mitigation blocks, failed retests.

Fair value gap marked on a candlestick chart, showing the untouched band between candle one and candle three

Smart money concepts18 Sept 202616 min read

Fair Value Gap Explained: How to Mark and Trade FVGs

Fair value gap explained with the three candle rule: how to mark an FVG, the 50 percent line, inversion gaps, 1m versus 15m behaviour, and unfilled gaps.

Liquidity sweep on a candlestick chart showing a wick spiking below equal lows before price reverses upward

Smart money concepts18 Sept 202617 min read

Liquidity Sweeps and Stop Hunts Explained

Liquidity sweeps explained: where resting orders sit, how to read the sweep wick, equal highs and lows, and how to tell a sweep from a real break of a level.

ICT trading concepts chart showing session killzone windows, a judas swing and the optimal trade entry retracement band

ICT18 Sept 202619 min read

ICT Trading Concepts: Killzones, OTE and Power of 3

ICT trading concepts explained plainly: session killzones in UTC, the judas swing, optimal trade entry, power of three and the market maker buy and sell models.