Smart Money Push, Fair Value Gap, Liquidity Sweep

Learn ICT trading strategies: Smart Money Push, Fair Value Gap, and Liquidity Sweep. Discover entry points using FVG and inversion FVG concepts across markets.

Published · Updated · Methodology: ICT

Part of: Fair Value Gap (FVG)

  • Methodology: ICT
  • Content type: strategy

Indicators used

  • Fair Value Gap
  • Inversion Fair Value Gap

Source video

Decoded from: These 3 ICT Strategies Actually Work Every Day (Forget The Rest) by Jesse Rogers | Casper Trading — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:04 - Smart Money Push definition
  • 0:12 - Fair Value Gap entry definition
  • 0:20 - Liquidity Sweep definition

Strategy overview

In ICT terms, a fair value gap is an imbalance — a zone left behind when price moves so quickly that one side of the market never gets to transact, which is why price so often returns to it later. This entry decodes a video that places the fair value gap inside a three-signal toolkit — a Smart Money Push, the fair value gap itself, and a liquidity sweep — presented as a compact set the video frames as usable day after day.

What sets this framing apart is the order of cause and effect. The Smart Money Push is the aggressive, institutional-style displacement that does the work of creating the gap in the first place; the fair value gap is the unfilled imbalance that displacement leaves behind to enter from; and the liquidity sweep is the context that shows where price was likely reaching before it moved. Rather than treating the gap as a stand-alone trigger, the video ties it to the impulse that produced it and the liquidity that motivated the move — three pieces of one sequence rather than three separate indicators.

The source video, "These 3 ICT Strategies Actually Work Every Day (Forget The Rest)" from Jesse Rogers (Casper Trading), also brings in the inverse fair value gap — a gap that fails and flips its role — as part of the same vocabulary. This page focuses on how the video defines each of the three concepts and how it links the push, the gap and the sweep into a single read.

Topics

ict trading · fair value gap · liquidity sweep · smart money concepts · trading strategy · price action · tradingview strategy · pine script · inversion fair value gap

Frequently asked questions

What is a fair value gap in ICT?

A fair value gap is a price imbalance left when a fast, one-directional move skips past levels where both buyers and sellers would normally transact. ICT-style traders watch it because price frequently returns toward that gap, giving them a reference zone to work from.

What is a "Smart Money Push" and how does it relate to the fair value gap?

In this video's framing, a Smart Money Push is the aggressive displacement that creates the fair value gap — the impulse move that leaves the imbalance behind. The push and the gap are treated as cause and effect rather than as two independent signals.

How does the liquidity sweep fit with the fair value gap here?

The liquidity sweep supplies context: it marks where resting stop orders were taken before or around the move, helping frame why price displaced and where the fair value gap becomes relevant. In the video, the sweep, the push and the gap are read as one connected sequence.

How can I study a multi-concept ICT setup like this before trading it?

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About this strategy page

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