Smart money
Market structure, order blocks, imbalances and liquidity — with an honest split between what has a mechanism and what rests on vocabulary.
7 lessons · 47 min
Who this course is for
For anyone who has heard of order blocks and liquidity sweeps but could not tell which part is testable. After this course you mark up structure the same way two days running, find where other people's orders cluster, and can tell that apart from your own imagination.
- 1What smart money is and what it is not6 minIt is a vocabulary about where other people's orders sit — useful exactly to the extent that it points at testable places. The rest of it is about intentions nobody can see.
- 2Market structure: a break and a change of character7 minTwo events on which the whole markup rests. There is only one difference between them, but it decides whether you keep following the trend or start preparing for a reversal.
- 3The order block: the price a move started from7 minNot every candle before an impulse is an order block. One filter makes it usable, and without that filter a chart produces a dozen blocks a day.
- 4Imbalance: a place where almost no trading happened7 minA fast move leaves a band on the chart that price skipped without two-sided trading. Price often returns there — but "often" is not "always", and that matters more than the pattern itself.
- 5Liquidity: where other people's stops are sitting7 minUnder every visible low there is a cluster of stop orders. That is verifiable mechanics, not a conspiracy — and the difference between those two explanations decides how you will trade.
- 6Time: what in sessions is testable and what was copied from another market6 minCrypto trades round the clock but not evenly. The daily rhythm exists and can be measured; the "magic windows" from courses cannot.
- 7Putting it all together into one trade7 minSix lessons give six separate observations. Here they combine into one order of actions — and its main value lies in how many times it says "do not enter".