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CertifiedSmart Money Concepts (SMC) is an advanced price action trading methodology that focuses on understanding how large institutional participants such as banks, hedge funds, market makers, mutual funds, and other financial institutions operate in the market. Unlike retail traders who often follow indicators and news after a move has already started, institutions have the capital to influence price movements and create trends. SMC aims to identify these institutional footprints and trade alongside them.
The core principle of SMC is that markets move from liquidity to liquidity. Institutions require large amounts of buy and sell orders to enter and exit positions. To obtain this liquidity, they often push prices toward areas where retail traders place stop losses, such as swing highs and swing lows. This process is known as a liquidity grab or liquidity sweep.
SMC traders study market structure, Break of Structure (BOS), Change of Character (CHOCH), Order Blocks, Fair Value Gaps (FVG), liquidity zones, and institutional order flow to determine where smart money is likely entering or exiting the market. The objective is not to predict the market but to understand the intentions of institutional traders and align trades with the dominant market direction.
In simple terms, SMC is the study of institutional behavior through price action, helping traders identify high-probability entry and exit points by following the movements of smart money rather than retail crowd psychology.
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