Order Blocks, Imbalances, Structure, Liquidity

Master advanced Smart Money Concepts. Learn to identify perfect trading entries using order blocks, market structure, imbalances, and liquidity tactics.

Published · Updated · Methodology: SMC

Part of: Order Blocks

  • Methodology: SMC
  • Content type: educational

Source video

Decoded from: MI SECRETO PARA ENTRADAS PERFECTAS; BLOQUE DE ORDENES, IMBALANCES, ESTRUCTURA Y LIQUIDEZ AVANZADA by It's Smart Money — watch the original

Strategy overview

An order block marks the candle or zone where significant orders were placed before a decisive move, and price is expected to react when it returns there. What separates this entry from a plain order-block tutorial is that the block is never treated as a signal on its own: the video builds it into a stack alongside imbalances, market structure and liquidity, where each element has to agree before an entry is considered valid.

That stacking is the whole point of the approach. Structure establishes which direction is worth trading, liquidity explains where price is likely to be drawn before it turns, imbalance marks the inefficiency left behind by the move away from the zone, and the order block gives the narrow area where the reaction is expected. Traders who work this way are trading the sequence rather than the level — the appeal is entry precision and a tighter invalidation point, and the honest trade-off is that demanding four conditions at once leaves far fewer setups on the chart than order blocks alone would.

The source is a Spanish-language video from the channel It's Smart Money, titled — in its own words — "my secret for perfect entries," covering order blocks, imbalances, structure and advanced liquidity. This entry catalogues the concepts the video builds its entry model from; it is a concept-level record rather than a rule-by-rule decoding, and the framing is the presenter's own.

Topics

order block strategy · smart money concepts · smc strategy · ict trading · price action · fair value gap strategy · tradingview strategy · trading strategy · liquidity trading · market structure trading · advanced smc strategy · pine script

Frequently asked questions

What is an order block in Smart Money Concepts?

An order block is a candle or price zone associated with the placement of significant orders before a strong directional move. SMC traders mark it as an area where price may react if it returns, rather than as a standalone buy or sell signal.

Why combine order blocks with imbalances, structure and liquidity?

Because each answers a different question: structure indicates the direction with control, liquidity suggests where price is likely to travel first, imbalance shows the inefficiency left by the departure from the zone, and the order block narrows the area to act in. Used together they act as a confluence filter — more agreement required, fewer valid setups.

Is this approach the same as trading order blocks on their own?

No. Trading order blocks alone treats the zone itself as the trigger. This approach treats the zone as the final piece of a sequence that only qualifies once the other conditions are present, which is why it is framed around entry precision rather than around finding more entries.

Does the language of the source video matter?

The video is in Spanish, but SMC terminology is largely shared across languages — bloque de órdenes, imbalance, estructura and liquidez map directly onto order block, imbalance, market structure and liquidity, so the concepts carry over unchanged.

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