Free trading education: 65 in-depth lessons on Smart Money Concepts, ICT, Wyckoff, Elliott Wave and trading psychology.
New to SMC? These four short guides cover the essentials.
Break of Structure (BOS) and Change of Character (CHoCH) explained: what they are, how to tell them apart, and the common mistakes traders make labeling them.
IDM (inducement) explained: the liquidity pools smart money targets before the real move. Learn what inducement is, why it forms, and how to spot it on your charts.
Premium vs discount zones explained: how the equilibrium (0.5) of a dealing range divides where smart money buys from where it sells — and why retail keeps buying tops.
Liquidity sweeps explained: why wicks pierce swing highs and lows before reversing, how to tell a sweep from a genuine break, and how to read stop hunts as context.
Smart Money Concepts, Trading Hub 3.0 course in English. →
Welcome, readers, to the SMC method based on the Trading Hub 3.0 material in…
It is time for us to learn about the types of Entry modules. Now I will explain all of the high-probability entry types. That is how you can make decisions in…
In this part, we will learn about Daily liquidity and its benefits. First we need to identify the daily timeframe structure; it is not the structure map that…
In this new Trading Hub 3.0 update, we will learn how to map structure using inducement and order flow, which helps find entry points more easily and avoids…
Usually we will have common entry module patterns such as CHoCH entry, Flip entry, and Sweep entry. All three are applied when the market takes liquidity and…
According to SMC Trading Hub 3.0, IFC - Institutional Funding Candle is an institutional candle that breaks through any major high or low and takes out all of…
In the Smart Money Concepts method, Order Flow is the first step to identify a POI. A POI is a Point of Interest, a special area where we make the decision to…
An Order Block (OB) is where Smart Traders enter Buy or Sell trades. The Order Block is an important part of the Smart Money Concept (SMC)…
In this part, we will learn about CHoCH, BOS and Inducement in the Smart Money Concept (SMC)…
Price often drops sharply or rises abnormally high, creating an imbalance, after which the market tries to recover to correct the imbalance. Imbalance has many…
Trading the internal structure in the Smart Money Concepts method will help us enter trades without needing to pay attention to the trend of the main…
A POI is not an OB; do not confuse these two concepts. Institutions always want to take liquidity by hunting retail stop losses; based on this we can identify…
If you do not know how to balance your winning and losing trades, then Smart Money Concepts is not for you. Single Candle Mitigation is a very effective way to…
This article will explain to readers how to identify a Single Candle Order Block and which factors you should follow to mark a Single Candle…
Many Smart Money Traders always trade based on BOS, CHoCH and OB, but in reality OB is not SMC. OB is only additional confirmation for a Buy or Sell. When we…
Liquidity is basically the main part of Smart Money Concepts. If you do not understand exactly what liquidity is, there is a good chance you yourself are part…
Inner Circle Trader concepts in English. →
To open the ICT series, we will learn about the PD Array and OTE. These are two important concepts to start with before the following…
The Block types in ICT include: Order Block, Reclaimed OB, Breaker Block, Rejection Block, Mitigation Block, Vacuum Block, Propulsion Block. All of these…
The Market Maker Model (MMXM) in ICT is a model describing how price moves from one PD Array to another PD Array, helping you have a trading idea with a clear…
In the ICT method, a Judas Swing is a false move at a specific time, intended to deceive retail traders into believing that price will continue moving in one…
In ICT there are potential models that help you detect a reversal or retracement of price, including CISD, Turtle Soup, AMD and MSS. In this article we will…
In the ICT method, the FVG and its variants are very important price zones, expressing the supply–demand relationship and providing suitable places to open…
In the ICT method, liquidity is concentrated at IRL and ERL. To understand IRL and ERL, we first need to grasp the ICT Dealing…
Liquidity is the “lifeblood” of the market, the core factor that allows all buying and selling activity to take place…
A Displacement Move is the phenomenon of price being pushed strongly out of its current price zone, usually due to a large flow of money entering the market…
Market Profile analysis provides a unique perspective on market behaviour by focusing on the relationship between price and…
Daily Bias is a concept that helps determine the main direction of price movement during the…
In the ICT method, an Intraday Profile describes price behaviours over a specific period of the trading day, in order to determine the high of a sell day and…
Market Structure in ICT is the framework of price movement over a given period, reflecting the market's behaviour and order…
The ICT trading method encompasses an enormous amount of knowledge; if you are a beginner you will certainly feel confused and not know where to start, nor…
In this first part, we will explore the basic elements of Wyckoff, including the market cycle and price…
This article will help readers understand the meaning and use of the powerful tool Volume Profile (VP) and its…
Volume Profile is a useful indicator of Auction Theory, and auction theory is similar to the Law of Supply and Demand, the most important law of…
Together with auction theory, the three laws of Wyckoff — the Law of Supply and Demand, the Law of Cause and Effect, and the Law of Effort versus Result — have…
The financial market is like auctions, where buyers and sellers meet and negotiate with each…
Accumulation in Wyckoff is the process by which the CO (institutions, large traders) absorb the floating supply in the market. This is essentially a process of…
As learned in the Accumulation Structure, to absorb supply and push price up successfully, the CO needs to ensure price will go up along the path of least…
Re-accumulation in Wyckoff is the result of an uptrend needing to go through a consolidation phase before it can continue…
Distribution in Wyckoff is the process of transferring inventory from the CO — who holds a large amount of supply during the Accumulation phase — to the public…
A visual Wyckoff chart is worth a thousand words. In this part, we will continue discussing the Distribution phase and its…
Re-distribution in Wyckoff is the phase where price pauses its decline to consolidate the sellers' strength, followed by a new…
Elliott Wave theory in English. →
Elliott wave degree is the hierarchical system of wave scale, determining which wave is larger and which wave is a component inside which other wave. This is…
Every pattern in Elliott Wave — from the Zigzag and Flat to the Diagonal — is built on a single foundation: the 8-wave cycle with a 5–3…
The Elliott Diagonal Wave is the only exception in the entire impulse wave system of Elliott Wave theory, carrying with it the sign of a market trend…
Motive Wave in Elliott is the group of motive waves that move in the same direction as the larger trend, comprising two sub-forms: Impulse and Diagonal. In…
Every price chart contains only two types of waves: motive waves and corrective waves in Elliott Wave. A motive wave has a structure of 5 sub-waves and moves…
The Elliott flat wave is a common A-B-C sideways corrective pattern in Elliott Wave Theory. A flat does not appear randomly. It almost always accompanies a…
Extensions and truncations in Elliott Wave are the two most common abnormal behaviors of an impulse wave, and at the same time two practical wave-counting…
The zigzag is one of the most common corrective patterns in Elliott Wave Theory, consisting of 3 corrective waves A-B-C. This article helps you identify the…
Trading psychology in English. →
Recently, prop firm challenges have become popular and have attracted many traders to take part. Besides getting to hold a large account to trade, the high…
Perhaps it takes losing a lot of money and time before a trader finally realises that taking profit is one of the most important skills in trading. I also lost…
In this article I will talk about: THE EDGE in TRADING. This is one of the articles in the series sharing about trading psychology — a topic for which there is…
Continuing the content of the previous part, we consider finding a competitive edge in Forex…
Today's topic is about the mistakes that most investors and traders make when they first enter the…
If you have traded long enough, I think you have also gone through crazy, out-of-control trading streaks. Only when you have lost too much, blown your account,…
The difference between an amateur trader and a professional trader does not lie in the trading method. Nor is it in the difference in the size of the account…
I think this is a difficult topic, and it is very easy to fall asleep when reading about it. Most people will prefer chart analysis and finding opportunities…
Personally, I have also been trading for a relatively long time, and I have spent a lot of time researching trading…
Trading losses are unavoidable in investing and trading. I think no one can avoid losing. Even professional traders, legendary investors like Warren Buffett,…
This part will bring together the knowledge in Trading Hub 4.0 and explain everything to readers in detail, step by step. How to determine structure, determine…
Trading Hub 4.0 mainly helps people trade in line with the trend. In this first part, we will discuss everything about the formation of Japanese candlesticks…
In this article we will learn about the flag pattern and how to use it across…
Unlike Hub 3.0, impulsive moves and corrective moves are defined by Hub 4.0 as…
In this article, we will learn how to enter with the advanced EMA at the LTF and…
The way Trading Hub 4.0 finds entry points is much simpler than version 3.0. Trading Hub 3.0 will explain it to readers in this…