NCI's Market Structure, Key Level, Trend, Momentum

Understand market structure, trends, and key levels for strategic entry. Learn to identify market turning points and capitalize on momentum using SMC principles

Published · Updated · Methodology: SMC

Part of: Market Structure

  • Methodology: SMC
  • Content type: educational

Source video

Decoded from: Turning point of a TREND - NCI secret - Part #2 by Jayce PHAM trader - NCI's Market structure — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Introduction to trend turning points
  • 0:10 - Big boy and retail trader interaction in uptrends
  • 0:30 - Market moves higher and stronger
  • 0:45 - End of uptrend and start of downtrend
  • 1:00 - Demand pool and key levels
  • 1:10 - Entry at key levels

Strategy overview

Market structure is the running sequence of highs and lows that tells you which side of the market currently holds control. What sets this entry apart is that it does not study the sequence as a whole — it isolates a single moment, the turning point, and explains it as a story between two actors rather than as a shape on the chart. The clip walks through an uptrend as an interaction between the "big boys" and retail traders, follows the market as it pushes higher and stronger, and then arrives at the point where the uptrend ends and a downtrend begins.

The back half of the video shifts from why the turn happens to where it becomes usable: a demand pool, then key levels, then entry at those levels. That ordering is the distinctive part. Pattern-first teaching names the break on the chart and reaches for participants afterwards to explain it; here the participants come first and the level is introduced as the address where that read can finally be acted on. The NCI label attached to the strategy title covers this whole chain — structure, key level, trend, momentum — as a single house vocabulary rather than four separate tools.

A few things are worth stating plainly. This is "Part #2" of a series and is framed as a "secret" in its own title, so the page catches the middle of a sequence rather than a standalone lesson, and the wording is the channel's, not a claim about outcomes. The entry also carries no timeframe, no indicator and no extracted rule set — what it offers is the causal narrative behind a structural turn, not a self-contained trading plan.

Topics

smc strategy · market structure · key levels · trading strategy · trend trading · momentum trading · pine script · tradingview strategy · price action · ict trading

Frequently asked questions

What is a trend turning point in market structure?

It is the moment the sequence of highs and lows stops confirming the current direction and starts building the opposite one — for example, when an uptrend's pattern of higher highs and higher lows fails and lower highs begin to form. It marks a change of control rather than a temporary pullback.

Why does this video frame the turn as "big boys" versus retail traders?

Actor-based framing is common in SMC-style teaching: instead of describing the turn as a pattern, it describes it as a transfer of positioning between large participants and the crowd. The clip narrates the uptrend through that interaction and then treats the end of the trend as the outcome of it.

How does a demand pool relate to a key level?

In SMC vocabulary a demand pool is the area where buying interest is understood to be concentrated, while a key level is the specific price reference used to act on that read. The video introduces them in that order — pool first, level second — so the level functions as the actionable edge of the zone rather than as an independent signal.

Does this page contain the full NCI rule set?

No. No entry rules, parameters or timeframes were extracted for this entry, so it stands as concept-level material tied to the source video. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies like this one from video sources, and entries with an extracted structure show that breakdown on their own page.

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