SMC Mastery
Order blocks, gaps, liquidity and structure — taught as measurable behaviour rather than as conspiracy.
Built first of the advanced tracks: it is where demand is, and it is the on-ramp to grading against a codified methodology.
- 1The premise, honestly framed
Footprints, not conspiracies. Separate the unknowable claim from the measurable one.
Checkpoint: Sequence - 2Order blocks
Find them by sequence rather than by size, and know when one is spent.
Checkpoint: Mark the chart - 3Fair value gaps
Read an imbalance, and know that gaps do not have to fill.
Checkpoint: Mark the chart - 4Liquidity pools & sweepsnot written yet
Where stops rest, and why the reclaim is the entire setup.
Checkpoint: Mark the chart - 5BOS vs CHoCH in SMC grammarnot written yet
Continuation versus the first warning of a shift.
Checkpoint: Call the grade - 6Premium & discountnot written yet
Bisect the dealing range and use location as a filter.
Checkpoint: Mark the chart - 7Mitigation & breakersnot written yet
Tell the confused cousins apart.
Checkpoint: Spot the trap - 8Killzones & sessionsnot written yet
When the concepts apply, and when the clock makes them irrelevant.
Checkpoint: Sequence - 9The AMD cyclenot written yet
Label accumulation, manipulation and distribution on real price action.
Checkpoint: Mark the chart - 10SMT divergencenot written yet
Correlated instruments disagreeing, and what that is worth.
Checkpoint: Spot the trap - 11One SMC trade, start to finishnot written yet
Composite checkpoint chain across the whole framework.
Checkpoint: Call the grade - 12What the scoreboard says about SMC
The skeptic's lesson. The data, and a straight face.
Checkpoint: —
Complete all 4 written lessons in this track with an average checkpoint score of 70 or better and you can generate a shareable record of completion. You are at 0/4.
The concepts here are applied in the Trade Playbook, and the engine that grades them is taken apart in how AI chart analysis works.