Smart Money Concepts, Market Structure, Liquidity Sweep, CISD

A Smart Money Concepts strategy uses 15m/1m charts to identify market bias, then seeks liquidity sweeps to trigger entries confirmed by Change in State of Deliv

Published · Updated · Methodology: SMC

Part of: Liquidity Sweeps & Grabs

  • Methodology: SMC
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: 15 minute, 1 minute
  • Markets: Not specified (implied general financial markets)

Source video

Decoded from: Smart Money Trading Strategy | The 3-Step Entry System by Stock Menthol — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Introduction
  • 0:45 - Step 1: Market Bias
  • 2:18 - Step 2: Liquidity Sweep
  • 5:06 - Step 3: CISD & Trade Execution
  • 7:18 - Complete Trading Blueprint
  • 8:02 - Final Recap
  • 0:45 - Step 1: Bias - Understand market direction using market structure.
  • 2:18 - Step 2: Condition - Identify specific moments of smart money action, specifically liquidity sweeps.
  • 5:06 - Step 3: Execution - Enter only when the market confirms with CISD.
  • 6:15 - Entry: CISD candle close or on retracement after CISD.
  • 6:25 - Stop Loss: Below the sweep's low (for long) or above the sweep's high (for short).
  • 6:35 - Target: Previous day's high/low or next major supply/demand zone on 15-minute chart.

Strategy overview

A liquidity sweep is the push through an obvious high or low where stop orders rest, after which price often reverses back inside the range. What separates this entry from other sweep-based material is that the sweep is explicitly the *middle* step of three: Stock Menthol's "Smart Money Trading Strategy | The 3-Step Entry System" places bias first, the sweep second, and then hands the actual trigger to a fourth concept — CISD, the change in the state of delivery.

That third step is where the video spends the most time, and it is the part most sweep discussions leave unresolved. A raid on a high or low tells you liquidity was taken; it does not tell you the move is over. In SMC vocabulary, a change in state of delivery is the moment the sequence that produced the sweep is broken and price begins delivering in the opposite direction — the confirmation that turns an observation into a timed entry. The video's chapter structure reflects that priority: bias and the sweep are covered in the first five minutes, while CISD and execution carry the longest block before the material is compressed into a single blueprint and a closing recap. The timeframe pairing is equally telling — 15-minute and 1-minute only, with nothing in between, so context and execution sit roughly fifteen resolutions apart and the 1-minute chart is expected to carry the entire trigger.

No rule set was extracted from this video, so this page does not carry entry, stop or target specifics. What it offers is the conceptual map: how a bias filter, a liquidity event and a delivery-state change are meant to stack into one sequence, and where in the source material each piece is developed.

Topics

smart money concepts · smc strategy · ict trading · price action · liquidity sweep · market structure · trading strategy · pine script · tradingview strategy · 15 minute strategy · scalping strategy · day trading strategy · cisd trading · forex strategy

Frequently asked questions

What is CISD in Smart Money Concepts?

CISD stands for change in state of delivery — the point at which price stops delivering in one direction and begins delivering in the other, typically after a liquidity event. In SMC-style methods it is used as a confirmation that a reversal has actually begun rather than being anticipated.

How is CISD different from a liquidity sweep?

A liquidity sweep is the event that takes out resting orders above a high or below a low; a CISD is the confirmation that follows it. The sweep identifies where the move should originate, while the change in delivery state signals that it has started — which is why this video treats them as two separate steps rather than one.

What timeframes does this 3-step entry system use?

The strategy is associated with the 15-minute and 1-minute charts. The higher timeframe carries context and bias while the 1-minute chart handles the entry, with no intermediate timeframe between them.

Can I test a Smart Money Concepts entry system like this one?

Yes, but you will need to define each step precisely first — bias, the sweep, and the delivery-state change all require unambiguous conditions before they can be backtested. No rule set was extracted from this video, so use the source material for the specifics, then validate on historical data before risking capital. Strategy Decoder catalogs video-sourced strategies like this one so you can find and evaluate them in one place.

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