ORDER BLOCKS Strategy

Explore the ORDER BLOCKS Strategy, a Smart Money Concept (SMC) approach to identify key support/resistance areas, perfect for various markets and timeframes.

Published · Updated · Methodology: SMC

Part of: Order Blocks

  • Methodology: SMC
  • Content type: strategy

Indicators used

  • Order Block

Source video

Decoded from: Cómo Usar los ORDER BLOCKS Correctamente en Trading Este 2025 by El Sensei — watch the original

Strategy overview

In Smart Money Concepts (SMC), an order block is the candle or zone where institutional orders are presumed to have accumulated before a strong directional move, later treated as a level price may return to. This entry is decoded from "Cómo Usar los ORDER BLOCKS Correctamente en Trading Este 2025" by the Spanish-language channel El Sensei — and the title itself signals the angle: not what an order block is, but how to use it *correctly*, framed as a 2025 update to the way most traders apply the concept.

That corrective framing is the interesting part. Order blocks are among the most widely drawn and most loosely defined tools in the SMC vocabulary: two traders looking at the same chart will often mark different candles, because the rules for which block qualifies, how it should be validated, and when it is considered spent are rarely stated with precision. A video that positions itself around correct usage is addressing exactly that gap — the distance between recognizing a zone on a chart and having a rule you could hand to someone else and expect the same marking back.

This page catalogs the strategy as presented in the source video, with its SMC framing and its focus on order blocks as the single working tool. The specifics of how El Sensei defines and qualifies a valid block belong to the source material itself; what this entry provides is the concept in context and a pointer to where the approach comes from.

Topics

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Frequently asked questions

What is an order block in Smart Money Concepts?

An order block is a candle or price zone that SMC traders read as the origin of a strong institutional move — the area where large orders are presumed to have been placed before price left it. Traders watch for price to return to that zone and react from it.

Why do traders talk about using order blocks "correctly"?

Because the concept is defined loosely in most teaching material. Which candle counts as the block, whether it needs confirmation, and when it stops being valid are all judgment calls unless the method spells them out — which is why videos like this source frame their contribution as correcting common usage rather than introducing the idea.

Is this order block strategy taught in Spanish?

Yes. The source is a Spanish-language video from the channel El Sensei, aimed at Spanish-speaking traders learning SMC. The concept itself is language-agnostic, but the original explanation and terminology come from that video.

Do order blocks work on their own, or do they need other SMC concepts?

In most SMC frameworks order blocks are used alongside market structure and liquidity concepts, which supply the directional context for deciding whether a block is worth trading. This particular entry centers on the order block as the primary tool, so the surrounding context is defined by how the source presents it.

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