Market Structure | Impulse/CorrectionsMarket Structure | Impulse & Corrections 🎡😈
What is Market Structure?
Market structure is a trend-following technique that traders use to read and track how the price moves. Bullish moves, bearish moves, and ranges in between Market structure is also known as price action at times. As a result, we call it market structure since that is how the entire market moves.
How to identify Market Structure?
Wait for a swing high/low to be broken.
(candle-stick body must close above swing high/low)
What is Market Structure telling us?
in a Up-trend scenario, higher-lows will provide
in a Down-trend scenario, high-highs will provide
What is impulse/corrections?
The natural behavior of the Market.
What is correction?
When price is in a ranging or sideways market.
What is a impulse?
The point when price impulsively breaks out of the correction
How to use Impulse/Corrections?
to identify which phase we are in, and what to expect next.
Summary:
Market structure is the guidance to a trade setup, failing to identify market structure will lead to many unnecessary losses and an overall bad analysis.
Every trade consist of few things such as..
The first step to a trade is analysis which requires market structure in order to do so.
Very simple rules to follow.. BUY LOW - SELL HIGH 🎡
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Retail vs Smart Money ExamplesIn this example, we will look into the parallel channel formed on AUDUSD.
How Retail View the Breakout:
Price broke and re-tested the breakout trendline
Price should now continue bearish after showing signs of rejection
How Smart Money View the Breakout:
Price broke out of the retail trendline, liquidity has now been formed in their stop loss region
Once this area is wiped, we could consider sells from the order block that created it.
Smart Money Concepts Diagram With Wyckoff SchematicsThis is a Smart Money Concepts Diagram With Labeled Wyckoff Accumulation And Distribution Schematics.
These are the main smart money trade setups that you will find in your charts, this is how smart money (big banks, funds, composite man, etc.) manipulate markets to engineer liquidity.
Wyckoff methods teach a bigger picture view of the markets and why they are moving, many times you will see smart money setups inside of bigger picture Wyckoff schematics that form certain parts of the schematic itself.
I hope you find this to be a useful reference diagram for Smart Money trade setups 😁
If you have any questions please comment below and I can make updates to the F.A.Q.
Educational ContentIn this example, we can see that this is a typical trend continuation move.
1. Bullish impulse leg, followed by a "Consolidation before breakout".
2. For those who trade with SMC = Smart Money Concept, you will identify the breakout zone as an ORDER BLOCK .
3. Prices made a Swing High, followed by a "FALLING WEDGE" pattern, forming liquidity beneath the minor swing lows while approaching the ORDER BLOCK .
4. 1st Buy Entry would be at "OB1 - PRIMARY ZONE".
5. 2nd Buy Entry would be a classic "Breakout Retest" retail trading technique.
This is how you combine Retail Logic with Smart Money Concept.
Trade like smart money with Wyckoff theory (Distribution)Here is an example of Distribution in Wyckoff Schematics.
Here as you can see you could easily trade with the smart money and take huge profits if you just understood how smart money move the market in order to get where they want.
It works on all timeframes in reverses areas, where you believe, based on your analysis that the market is likely to reverse.
Trade like smart money with Wyckoff theory (Accumulation)Wyckoff theory is a way to understand where the smart money(Institutions & Large banks) want to move the market and when you can enter and add to your profitable entries.
If you understand the way smart money moves the market, then you can profit with them!
It can be used in all timeframes.
The Basic Concept of Liquidity - LongMirroring the previous graphic based on the 'sell side' this graphic provides insight and annotates how institutions view and see the market based on the core concepts of Liquidity utilising
the models around 'Premium vs Discount'
The graphic shows key points where liquidity is manufactured around 'traditional retail methodologies'
If and when you can understand WHY the market moves the way it does, then you will be able to take your trading to the next level !
The SmartMoney Trading System. All You Need To Succeed! Learn how the BIG Money or The SmartMoney move funds. Knowing their tricks, to know when they move the volume, you will change your trading success overnight. Full system in this video.
- The Qualificarion Rules
- The Entry Rules
- The Exit Rules
Enjoy!