Guided path · Advanced

Smart Money Concepts

Market structure, liquidity, order blocks and fair value gaps. An advanced lens on price action.

  • ✓ 10 lessons in order
  • ✓ About 40 minutes
  • ✓ Progress tracked in MarketPro
  • ✓ Free to follow

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The lessons, in order

A path is the academy's answer to "where do I start". The order is deliberate: each lesson assumes the ones above it, which is why reading them this way works better than picking at a category list. In the app the path tracks how far through you are and what comes next.

  1. Market Structure: The SMC Lens Swing highs, swing lows, and the order in which they break. That is the whole of market structure, and the labels only help if… Advanced4 min
  2. Liquidity: Where Stops Cluster Resting orders are not spread evenly across a chart. They cluster where everybody can see them, and price has a habit of going… Advanced4 min
  3. Order Blocks: An Introduction The last opposing candle before an impulsive move. Useful as a location and a stop reference, unreliable as a reason on its own. Advanced4 min
  4. Fair Value Gaps: An Introduction Three candles where the outer wicks never overlap, leaving a band of price that only ever traded one way. Advanced4 min
  5. Break Of Structure Vs Change Of Character One label says the trend is intact, the other says something changed. Mixing them up means reading the chart backwards. Advanced4 min
  6. Premium And Discount Pricing Zones Above the midpoint of the range is expensive, below it is cheap. A context filter that changes your risk-reward more than most… Advanced4 min
  7. Inducement: The Trap Before The Move The shallow level between you and the zone you actually want. Useful as a warning about stop placement, dangerous as an excuse… Advanced4 min
  8. Equal Highs And Lows As Liquidity Targets A flat ceiling on your chart is a flat ceiling on everyone else’s, which is exactly what makes it crowded. Advanced4 min
  9. Draw On Liquidity And Directional Bias Not "up or down" but "which pool does price go and take first". A bias question with a level attached to the answer. Advanced4 min
  10. Multi-Timeframe Alignment In Smart Money Analysis A chart is one timeframe’s opinion. Two charts is a method, and six is a way of finding the answer you already wanted. Advanced4 min

What it draws on

This path pulls from 1 category: smart money concepts. Each of those pages lists its full set of lessons if you would rather go deep on one subject than move across several.

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