SMC Market Structure Strategy

Learn the SMC Market Structure Strategy for identifying market shifts and precise entries. This technique focuses on Smart Money Concepts to improve trading suc

Published · Updated · Methodology: SMC

Part of: Market Structure

  • Methodology: SMC
  • Content type: strategy

Source video

Decoded from: Estrategia de Estructura de Mercado para Fondearte en 2024 (SMC) by Gorka Fx — watch the original

Strategy overview

Market structure — the sequence of highs and lows that tells you which side of the market currently holds control — is the backbone of most Smart Money Concepts (SMC) trading. What distinguishes this entry is the order in which its source states things: the video's title, "Estrategia de Estructura de Mercado para Fondearte en 2024 (SMC)", names the objective before it names the method. The strategy is not introduced as a way to read the market; it is introduced as a way to pass a funded-account evaluation.

That framing is worth taking seriously, because an evaluation account is a different problem from a chart. A prop-firm challenge adds constraints that live outside price entirely — a maximum drawdown, a daily loss limit, a profit target on a clock — so the question stops being "is this read correct?" and becomes "is this read repeatable enough, and survivable enough, to clear a set of external rules?" Structure-based approaches tend to appear in that context for a specific reason: they produce an explicit invalidation level, which is what any account with a hard loss ceiling actually needs. The title also carries a year stamp, and a strategy pitched for 2024 is implicitly a claim about that period's conditions rather than a timeless framework.

Two things about this entry should be stated plainly. It comes from Gorka Fx, a Spanish-language channel, so the source material is delivered in Spanish. And no rule set has been extracted from it — this page catalogues the SMC market-structure framing and the video behind it, not a set of entry, exit, or risk parameters. Treat it as an entry point to the concept and the source, not as a self-contained plan.

Topics

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Frequently asked questions

What is market structure in Smart Money Concepts (SMC)?

Market structure is the reading of successive swing highs and lows to determine trend direction and control. In SMC it works as the base layer that other concepts — liquidity, order blocks, imbalances — are positioned against, and its main practical output is a clear level at which the current read is wrong.

What does "fondearte" mean in this strategy's title?

"Fondearte" is Spanish trading shorthand for getting funded — passing a proprietary trading firm's evaluation to trade a firm-provided account. The video frames its market-structure approach around that goal rather than around a specific market or instrument.

Is market structure alone enough to pass a prop firm evaluation?

No method is, on its own. An evaluation is scored against external constraints — maximum drawdown, daily loss limits, and a target within a time window — so position sizing and loss control matter as much as directional accuracy. Structure gives you a defined invalidation point, which helps, but it does not by itself satisfy an evaluation's rules.

Does this page include the exact rules from the video?

No. Strategy Decoder has not extracted a rule set from this source, so this entry stays at concept level: what the SMC market-structure framing is and what the video sets out to do with it. For the specifics, the original video by Gorka Fx is the reference.

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