Smart Money Concepts, Market Structure, Fair Value Gaps, Liquidity Grabs, Equal Highs/Lows Strategy

Learn a Smart Money Concepts (SMC) trading strategy for Forex and Crypto using market structure, fair value gaps, and liquidity to identify high-probability ent

Published · Updated · Methodology: SMC

Part of: Fair Value Gap (FVG)

  • Methodology: SMC
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: Higher time frame (e.g., 1 hour), Lower time frame (e.g., 5 minute), Entry time frame should be at least two times lower than analysis time frame.
  • Markets: Crypto, Forex

Indicators used

  • Price Action Toolkit

Source video

Decoded from: 3 Professional Smart Money Trading Strategies for Forex & Crypto by Smart Risk — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:59 - Setup -1: Multi-timeframe Market Structure, FVG, Liquidity Grab
  • 7:28 - Setup -2: Multi-timeframe Buyside/Sellside Liquidity, Sweep, FVG
  • 11:27 - Setup -3: Single-timeframe Equal Highs/Lows, Sweep, FVG

Strategy overview

Smart Money Concepts (SMC) read a chart as a record of where liquidity has been left resting and what price does on its way to collect it. What distinguishes this entry is that the source video does not present one setup — it presents three, numbered and chaptered in sequence, so the page is less a single trade idea than a small catalogue of ways the same vocabulary can be assembled.

Read across the three chapters, one component never leaves: the fair value gap appears in all of them. What varies is how liquidity is located before the gap matters. The first setup pairs market structure with a liquidity grab; the second works from designated buyside and sellside zones and the sweep through them; the third narrows to equal highs and lows as the liquidity target. The complexity descends in the same order — the first two setups are explicitly multi-timeframe, splitting analysis and execution across a higher and a lower frame, while the third is framed as single-timeframe. Taken together, that arrangement reads as a progression from most context-dependent to most self-contained, with the gap acting as the common execution element rather than as the thing being hunted.

"Professional" is the channel's own framing for the collection, not a claim this page can verify; the video presents no performance figures and none should be inferred. It is also worth stating plainly that no rule set was extracted for this entry — there are no entry triggers, invalidation levels or targets recorded here. What this page documents is the structural side: which components each of the three setups uses, how they are ordered, and how the timeframe arrangement changes between them.

Topics

smart money concepts · smc strategy · trading strategy · forex strategy · crypto trading strategy · market structure · fair value gap · liquidity grabs · price action · multi timeframe analysis · scalping strategy · swing trading · pine script strategy

Frequently asked questions

What are Smart Money Concepts (SMC) in trading?

SMC is a way of reading price around liquidity: identifying where stop orders and resting liquidity accumulate, watching for price to sweep or grab that liquidity, and using structural markers such as market structure breaks and fair value gaps to describe what happens afterwards.

Why does the fair value gap appear in all three setups in this video?

It is the element the three chapters share. The liquidity component changes between them — a liquidity grab in the first, buyside/sellside zones and a sweep in the second, equal highs and lows in the third — while the fair value gap remains the common reference each setup returns to after liquidity is taken.

Do SMC setups require more than one timeframe?

Not always. The first two setups in this video are presented as multi-timeframe, separating a higher frame used for analysis from a lower one used for execution. The third is presented as single-timeframe, which makes it the most self-contained of the three.

Are the exact entry and exit rules for these three setups available?

No rule set was extracted for this entry, so no entry triggers, stops or targets are documented here. This page covers the concepts involved and how the three setups are structured; for the specifics you would need to work through the source video itself. Strategy Decoder catalogues strategies like this one so you can see what a video actually contains before spending time on it.

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