The complete curriculum
Six modules, 15 lessons, built to take you from zero to a working institutional-style process. Follow them in order, or jump to any topic.
Foundations of Smart Money Concepts
Before indicators and strategies, you must understand who moves the market and how price tells its story. This module builds the mental model every SMC trader relies on.
What Is Smart Money?
Understand the two forces in every market — 'smart money' (institutions) and retail — and why SMC is the study of following the former.
Market Structure 101
Learn the alphabet of price: higher highs, higher lows, lower highs, lower lows — and how they define uptrends, downtrends, and ranges.
BOS and CHoCH — The Language of Shifts
Break of Structure confirms a trend continues; Change of Character warns it may be reversing. Learn to read both.
Liquidity — The Engine of Price
Price does not move randomly; it moves toward liquidity. This module teaches you to see the resting orders that institutions need and how price engineers the sweeps that fuel real moves.
What Is Liquidity?
Liquidity is the pool of resting orders waiting to be filled. Learn buy-side and sell-side liquidity and why price is drawn to them.
Liquidity Pools and Resting Orders
Where do liquidity pools form? Equal highs, equal lows, old highs and lows, and obvious round numbers — the magnets of the market.
Liquidity Sweeps and Stop Hunts
A sweep is price briefly piercing a liquidity pool then reversing. This is the signature move of smart money — learn to read it.
Order Blocks & Imbalance
Order blocks are where institutions placed their orders; Fair Value Gaps are the imbalances they leave behind. Together they are the most actionable footprints in SMC.
Order Blocks
An order block is the last opposing candle before a strong move. It marks where institutional orders sit and where price tends to return.
Fair Value Gaps (FVG)
A Fair Value Gap is a three-candle imbalance where price moved too fast to trade efficiently. Price often returns to fill it.
SMT — Smart Money Technique
SMT reveals institutional intent by comparing correlated assets. When two instruments that should move together diverge, smart money is positioning. This is the edge most beginners never learn.
What Is SMT?
Smart Money Technique compares a correlated asset to your target to detect when institutions are positioning against the apparent move.
Reading SMT Divergences
Learn the bullish and bearish SMT patterns and how to combine them with liquidity sweeps for high-conviction reversals.
Price Action Fundamentals
SMC is built on raw price action. This module covers the candlestick literacy, key patterns, and support/resistance thinking that underpin every concept above.
Putting It All Together
Knowledge without a plan fails. This module assembles everything into a repeatable trading process, a risk framework, and an entry playbook.
The Complete Trading Process
A step-by-step process that turns SMC concepts into a daily routine, from higher-timeframe analysis to execution.
Risk Management & Position Sizing
No edge survives without risk control. Learn the non-negotiables: risk per trade, position sizing, and the math of survival.
The Beginner's Playbook
A condensed reference of the highest-probability setups and the discipline that keeps you in the game.