Market structure & SMC/ICT

Smart Money Concepts (SMC)

Also known as: SMC, smart money

Smart Money Concepts (SMC) is a trading approach that reads market structure, liquidity and order flow to follow the footprints of large institutional participants.

SMC focuses on ideas like order blocks, fair value gaps, liquidity sweeps and breaks of structure rather than classic indicators. It overlaps heavily with ICT methodology. Algovex ships a deep library of SMC/ICT detection nodes.

Related terms

ICT (Inner Circle Trader)Order blockFair value gap (FVG)Liquidity sweepBreak of structure (BOS)

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