BIAS Strategy

Learn the BIAS Strategy, a manual SMC trading approach for Forex markets focusing on directional market bias to inform entry and exit decisions.

Published · Updated · Methodology: SMC

Part of: ICT Concepts

  • Methodology: SMC
  • Content type: strategy
  • Markets: Forex

Source video

Decoded from: ESTRATEGIA MANUAL DE BIAS EXPLICADA 🔥 #trading #forex #bias #sensei by Gorka Fx — watch the original

Strategy overview

In Smart Money Concepts, *bias* is the directional lean a trader settles on before hunting for a trade — the answer to "which side of this market am I willing to take?" rather than "where exactly do I enter?" The load-bearing word in this entry's source is the second one: **manual**. Gorka Fx titles it "ESTRATEGIA MANUAL DE BIAS EXPLICADA", and that adjective is a claim about method, not a disclaimer — the bias is arrived at by reading the chart, not by reading an output. The stacked hashtags (#trading #forex #bias #sensei) place the piece in Spanish-language short-form feed content, the format where a framing gets explained rather than a full rule set laid out.

That is also why the indicator and timeframe fields on this page are empty rather than incomplete. A bias is not a calculation that a line on the chart can hand you, and it does not belong to a single chart period — it is an input that sits *above* the setup. Its job is subtractive: it removes half the market from consideration and leaves everything else — trigger, invalidation, target, sizing — still to be decided. Two traders holding an identical bullish bias on the same pair can end the session having taken entirely different trades, or none at all, without either of them having been wrong about the bias.

The honest difficulty with a manually formed directional read is that it resists auditing. A mechanical rule fails visibly; a judgment call tends to remember itself as having been right. Traders who work this way usually get value from writing the read down before the session — the direction, the reason, and specifically what would have to happen for it to be void — so that the bias becomes something reviewable after the fact. No rule set was extracted from this source, so this page covers the concept and points to the original video rather than reconstructing a procedure the format never spelled out.

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Frequently asked questions

What does "bias" mean in Smart Money Concepts trading?

Bias is a trader's directional lean on a market — the decision about which side to look for trades on, formed before any specific entry is considered. In SMC it is read from the chart's own structure rather than produced by an indicator.

Is a directional bias a complete trading strategy?

No. A bias filters direction; it does not tell you where to enter, where to place a stop, or when to exit. It works as a layer above a setup, and the entry logic has to come from somewhere else.

Why does this entry list no indicators or timeframe?

Because the source presents bias as a manual read rather than an indicator output, and a bias is not tied to one chart period. Those fields are empty because there is genuinely nothing to record there — no rule set was extracted from this video.

How can a manual bias be evaluated over time?

By making it explicit before the market moves: record the direction, the reasoning, and the condition that would invalidate it, then review the log across many sessions. A bias you can state in advance and mark wrong afterwards is one you can actually measure; one recalled after the fact is not.

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