SMC, ICT Strategy

Discover a simple and mechanical Smart Money Concepts (SMC) and ICT trading strategy designed for getting funded. Learn about consistent, rule-based trading.

Published · Updated · Methodology: SMC

Part of: ICT Concepts

  • Methodology: SMC
  • Content type: strategy

Source video

Decoded from: ESTRATEGIA SIMPLE Y MECANICA PARA FONDEARTE BASADA EN SMC O ICT #ict #smc #trading by No Soy Liquidez — watch the original

Strategy overview

Smart Money Concepts (SMC) and ICT are two closely related ways of reading price through liquidity and market structure rather than indicators. What sets this entry apart is its purpose: the source video is pitched not at chart study but at passing a prop firm evaluation — the Spanish title, "ESTRATEGIA SIMPLE Y MECANICA PARA FONDEARTE BASADA EN SMC O ICT", promises a simple, mechanical approach built specifically for getting funded.

That framing changes what matters. SMC and ICT are usually taught as an interpretive skill — reading intent behind a sweep, judging whether a structure break is real — which is exactly the kind of discretion that funding challenges punish, since drawdown limits and time windows reward repeatable behavior over good calls made inconsistently. A video that offers a *mechanical* version of these concepts is answering a specific complaint from traders who understand the theory but cannot execute it the same way twice. It is also worth noting the treatment is condensed and Spanish-language, from the channel No Soy Liquidez — whose name is itself a wink at the ICT idea that the market hunts the crowd's stops.

This page catalogs the strategy as presented in that source. A structured rule set has not been extracted for this entry, so the material here is the concept and its context rather than a decoded breakdown; anyone evaluating a mechanical SMC or ICT approach for a funded account should watch the original and test the logic on historical data before it meets a challenge account.

Topics

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Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between SMC and ICT?

They overlap heavily. ICT (Inner Circle Trader) is the original body of teaching built around liquidity, imbalance and market structure; SMC (Smart Money Concepts) is the broader, community-generalized version of the same vocabulary. Most SMC setups are recognizable ICT ideas under different labels, which is why a source can reasonably present a strategy as "SMC or ICT".

Can SMC or ICT be traded mechanically?

Partly. Elements like a sweep of a prior high or low, or a displacement candle leaving an imbalance, can be defined with objective conditions. The harder part is context — deciding which liquidity level matters right now — which is where most discretion survives. A mechanical version trades some situational judgment for consistency.

Why do traders look for mechanical strategies for prop firm challenges?

Funding evaluations impose fixed constraints — maximum daily loss, overall drawdown, and often a minimum number of trading days. Rules you can follow identically every session make performance against those constraints easier to anticipate than a discretionary read that varies with how you feel about the chart that morning.

How should I evaluate a strategy like this before using it on a funded account?

Define the entry, stop and exit precisely enough that two people would place the same trade, then test it on historical data across a range of conditions before risking an evaluation fee. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies from video sources so you can find, compare and test them on TradingView.

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