MARKET MAKER METHOD, FOREX Sessions

Understand the Market Maker Method and how Forex sessions (Asia, London, New York) influence price manipulation and liquidity. Learn foundational concepts.

Published · Updated · Methodology: SMC

Part of: Smart Money Concepts (SMC)

  • Methodology: SMC
  • Content type: educational
  • Timeframes: Not specified
  • Markets: FOREX

Source video

Decoded from: MÉTODO MARKET MAKER | Sesiones FOREX | Curso de trading by Opciones para invertir | OPI Trading Algorítmico — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 1:26 - FUNDAMENTO
  • 5:02 - SESIONES
  • 7:24 - ¿QUÉ PASA EN ASIA?
  • 8:42 - ¿QUÉ PASA EN LONDRES?
  • 9:49 - ¿QUÉ PASA EN NY?

Strategy overview

The Market Maker Method reads price as something engineered toward pools of liquidity by a dominant counterparty rather than as a neutral outcome of supply and demand. What distinguishes this entry is that its title pairs that market model with a clock: "MARKET MAKER METHOD, FOREX Sessions" is a premise plus a timetable, and the second half is where the video spends most of its runtime.

The chapter map makes that split visible. Two opening chapters establish the framing — "FUNDAMENTO" at 1:26 and "SESIONES" at 5:02 — and the remaining three are a per-region walkthrough asked in question form: what happens in Asia, in London, in New York. That structure treats the trading day as three behavioural regimes rather than one continuous market, and it makes time-of-day the variable the lesson actually commits to. The source is a Spanish-language lesson from Opciones para invertir | OPI Trading Algorítmico, published as part of a "curso de trading" — a curriculum module rather than a standalone setup — and the channel's algorithmic orientation suggests the session taxonomy is meant to become a time filter you can encode, not a feel you develop.

For a framework built on sessions, the load-bearing detail is the reference clock: session boundaries only mean something relative to a stated timezone, they shift twice a year with daylight saving, and the overlaps matter as much as the blocks themselves. This entry records no timezone anchor and no timeframe, which makes the clock reference the gap worth resolving from the source itself; the empty indicator field, by contrast, is structurally expected for a price-and-time reading in the SMC family. No rule set was extracted from this video, so this page stays at the level of the concept and the source rather than a decoded breakdown.

Topics

market maker method · forex sessions · smc strategy · forex trading strategy · trading strategy · ict trading · short-term trading · financial markets · trading education · price action · currency trading

Frequently asked questions

What is the Market Maker Method in trading?

It is a way of reading price that assumes a dominant counterparty engineers moves toward areas where orders and stops accumulate, rather than treating price as a neutral balance of buyers and sellers. It sits in the same family as Smart Money Concepts and focuses on liquidity and intent instead of indicator signals.

Why do forex sessions matter in a market maker approach?

Because forex trades around the clock but participation does not: the Asian, London and New York sessions differ in who is active, how much volume flows, and how ranges tend to form. A liquidity-based method cares about that because where and when orders accumulate depends on which part of the world is trading. The source video devotes a separate chapter to each of the three sessions.

What time zone do forex trading sessions refer to?

Session times are always quoted against a reference clock — commonly GMT/UTC or New York time — and the boundaries shift when daylight saving changes in Europe and the United States. No timezone is recorded for this entry, so if you apply a session framework you should confirm the reference clock used in the source before mapping the hours to your own broker's server time.

Does this strategy use technical indicators?

No indicators are recorded for this entry, which is consistent with an SMC-style approach that works from price structure and the clock rather than from calculated signals. No rule set was extracted from this video, so Strategy Decoder catalogs it here as a concept-and-source entry rather than a mechanical breakdown.

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