SMC Mechanical Entry Models

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✅ SMC Checklist:

1. Market Structure
🔹 Identify HTF Trend (H4 or H1): bullish, bearish, or range
🔹 Confirm Break of Structure (BOS) or Change of Character (CHoCH) on M15–M5
🔹 Look for lower highs/lows (downtrend) or higher highs/lows (uptrend)

2. Liquidity Zones
🔹 Look for equal highs/lows (liquidity pools)
🔹 Asian highs/lows — common targets during London/NY session
🔹 Recent internal range liquidity
🔹 Trendline liquidity — fakeouts often occur here

3. Premium & Discount Zones (PD Arrays)
🔹 Use Fibonacci from recent swing high to low
🔹 Look for entries at Discount (Longs) or Premium (Shorts) pricing
🔹 Ideal entries happen between 0.62–0.79 retracement

4. Supply & Demand Zones
🔹 Find fresh OBs (Order Blocks) that caused a break of structure
🔹 Use last bullish candle before strong drop (for short) or last bearish candle before strong rally (for long)
🔹 Confirm zone isn’t mitigated yet

5. Imbalance / Fair Value Gaps (FVG)
🔹 Identify large imbalanced candles (no wick overlap)
🔹 Ideal entries are inside the FVG aligned with direction
🔹 High probability if FVG is within OB or confluence with structure/liquidity

6. Confluences for Entry
🔹 Entry aligns with liquidity sweep or FVG/OB tap
🔹 Volume spike or rejection wick confirms interest
🔹 RSI divergence or exhaustion = bonus confirmation
🔹 Use M1/M5 for entry trigger after setup is formed on M15–H1

7. Entry Trigger
🔹 CHoCH or BOS on lower timeframe (M1-M5)
🔹 Confirmation with engulfing candle, FVG fill, or break/retest
🔹 SL below/above recent swing or OB boundary

8. TP/Exit Zones
🔹 TP1: After BOS/structure shift + partial
🔹 TP2: Next liquidity level (equal high/low or OB)
🔹 TP3: Opposite OB or major FVG
🔹 Adjust SL to breakeven after reaching TP1

9. Session Timing (Important)
🔹 Asian range → look for liquidity setup
🔹 London Open (3PM–6PM PH))→ manipulative move (liquidity grab)
🔹 NY Open (8PM–11PM PH) → continuation or reversal opportunity
🔹 Avoid high-impact news releases unless breakout
🔹 Use Forex Factory / MyFXBook for news calendar

10. Post-Trade Journaling:
🔹Screenshot HTF → LTF Setup (H4 > M15 > M1)
🔹Don’t skip journaling — it’s your #1 improvement tool.

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Note

🔥 MODEL 1: MOMENTUM RIDER
(Trend Continuation)

Bias: ✅ Pro Swing + ✅ Pro Internal

Use When: HTF, MTF, and LTF are all aligned.

- Trade with the trend. After a Break of Structure (BOS) on MTF (M15), you wait for a pullback to a POI (Order Block, FVG, or structure). This model offers the highest win rate when all timeframes are in harmony.

🎯 Trade Objective:

- Capitalize on the continuation of a clean swing trend by entering after a pullback, aiming to ride the move until the next structural high or low.

🧭 Entry Confirmation:

✓ Confirm swing BOS on MTF (M15)
✓ Wait for price to return to MTF OB / FVG
✓ Look for liquidity sweep into POI
✓ Confirm CHoCH on LTF (M1/M5)
✓ Entry must align with PD Array (buy in discount / sell in premium)
✓ TP = next MTF weak structure, 1:3RR

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🧪 Model 2: TRAP REVERSAL
(High Risk Reversal at Extreme Liquidity)

Bias:❌ Counter Swing + ❌ Counter Internal

Use When: Price taps HTF OB or sweeps major highs/lows.

- This setup catches the reversal after smart money sweeps liquidity at a high or low, forming a trap. Once the internal structure shifts (CHoCH), you ride the reversal.

🎯 Objective:
- Facilitate Swing Structure Pullback
-Play Internal Pullback
- Catch a high-RR reversal at market extremes after liquidity has been swept, with the goal of riding the initial leg of a swing pullback or full reversal

🧭 Entry Confirmation:

✓ Confirm HTF OB, liquidity sweep, or stop hunt at extreme
✓ Price overextended from mean or previous leg
✓ LTF sweep at trap zone
✓ You MUST wait for a MTF POI mitigation before looking for LTF entry model.
✓ Confirm LTF CHoCH and BOS
✓ Entry at newly formed OB or FVG after BOS
✓ TP = inefficiency fill or return to opposite structure

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🎯 MODEL 3: TACTICAL PULLBACK
(Internal Pullback Trade)

Bias:❌ Counter Swing + ✅ Pro Internal

Use When: A confirmed swing pullback is underway.

- Trade the internal structure of a pullback. Swing trend has reversed short-term (CHoCH on MTF), and internal trend (LTF) is now moving cleanly. You ride the corrective wave within a temporary retracement.

🎯 Trade Objective:

- Play MTF Swing Pullback.
- Anticipate MTF Swing reversal if HTF suggests.
-Take advantage of a short-term internal trend within a larger swing pullback, capturing profit inside the correction phase before swing trend resumes.

🧭 Entry Confirmation:

✓ MTF CHoCH confirms swing pullback has begun
✓ LTF shows clean internal trend (internal BOS)
✓ Look for liquidity sweep on internal high/low
✓ Confirm CHoCH on LTF
✓ Entry on LTF OB or FVG, not too deep in PD Array
✓ Avoid selling below 50% (discount) or buying in premium
✓ TP = internal structure target

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🚀 MODEL 4: TREND RECLAIMER
(Swing Continuation After Pullback)

Bias: ✅ Pro Swing + ❌ Counter Internal

Use When: After a correction, price is resuming the swing trend.

- This setup reclaims the pro trend after a corrective internal countertrend ends. The internal counterstructure breaks (weak low becomes strong low after CHoCH), confirming swing continuation.

🎯 Trade Objective

Anticipating end of Swing pullback. Internal structure is about to reverse. trade against the internal. Re-enter the main swing trend after a completed pullback, capturing the next impulsive leg in the original direction.

🧭 Entry Confirmation

✓ MTF swing trend is intact after CHoCH → BOS
✓ Price pulls back to swing OB or structure
✓ Internal structure shows weakness (e.g., weak low → strong low after CHoCH)
✓ Liquidity sweep confirms end of internal pullback
✓ CHoCH + mitigation entry confirms re-alignment with swing bias
✓ TP = next swing target in direction of trend

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🚫 Model 5: No-Trade Setup ( Avoid / Observe Only)

Bias: No clear swing or internal bias

Use When: Market is ranging, choppy, or lacks structure clarity on MTF and LTF
- MTF (M15) is ranging or forming equal highs/lows
- No fresh BOS or CHoCH — price just chops back and forth
- Repeated sweeps without trend confirmation
- Price hovering around equilibrium (50% of previous leg)

- This is a protective rule. When the market shows no clear BOS or CHoCH, and liquidity is repeatedly swept without follow-through, it signals indecision or absorption — a trap zone for both buyers and sellers.

🎯 Trade Objective

✓❌ Stay out of the middle!
✓Long -> bottom 33% | Short -> Top 33%
✓Protect capital by avoiding forced trades when Smart Money is accumulating or distributing. Instead, monitor and prepare for a breakout or valid setup based on your 4 core models.

✓ Identify potential liquidity pools above/below the range
✓ Set alerts near POIs or structural breakout points

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SMC ENTRY CHECKLIST

1. WAIT FOR LIQUIDITY Sweep/ STOP HUNT

Wait to have a Stop Hunt first to happen. Sweep below the equal lows before buying, or sweep above the equal highs before selling

Note: Liquidity are below Equal Lows / abvoe Equal Highs

- Usually many SLs and pending orders are placed near these key levels

- institutions need to push the price to do stop hunt so that there will be enough money available in the market to execute their very large orders (example 1M lot)

2. LOOK FOR CHANGE OF CHARACTER / MARKET STRUCTURE SHIFT

Bullish CHOCH / MSS
-Wait for the price to break above the last LOWER swing HIGH to confirm that there is a sign of bullish strength

3. Check if the price is inside the PD Array,
Draw a fib ( from swing low to swing high)

- BUY on a Discount Zone
(Below the 50% of the fib)

- SELL on a Premium Zone
(Above 50^ of the fib)

Look for Point of Interest (POI) such as
Fair Value Gap (FVG)
Order Blocks (OB)

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