Traps, POIs Strategy

Discover a Smart Money Concepts (SMC) trading strategy using 'Traps' and 'Points of Interest' (POIs) for entries. Learn to identify high-probability setups.

Published · Updated · Methodology: SMC

Part of: Smart Money Concepts (SMC)

  • Methodology: SMC
  • Content type: strategy

Source video

Decoded from: ROBA Esta Estrategia de Traps y POIs para Vivir del Trading (Solo 2 Horas al Día) by TradingconPako — watch the original

Strategy overview

In Smart Money Concepts (SMC), a "trap" is a move that runs through an obvious high or low to trigger resting stops before reversing, and a POI (point of interest) is a zone marked in advance where a trader expects price to react — the two are halves of the same idea: identify where the market is likely to hunt orders, then wait at the level rather than chase the move. This entry decodes a Spanish-language video from the channel TradingconPako, whose title, "ROBA Esta Estrategia de Traps y POIs para Vivir del Trading (Solo 2 Horas al Día)", makes its headline commitment not about market conditions but about a schedule: two hours a day.

That time budget is worth taking seriously as a framing choice, because zone-based SMC is one of the few approaches where it is structurally coherent. Marking POIs is preparation work done away from the live market; the session itself is mostly waiting for price to arrive at a level that was drawn beforehand. A trader can genuinely define a narrow window of attention around that. What the hours-per-day figure does not do is say anything about outcomes — it describes screen time, not performance, and "vivir del trading" is an aspiration the format of a video cannot evidence either way.

The record for this strategy carries no timeframe and no indicators, which is consistent rather than incomplete: an approach built on traps and hand-marked points of interest has no parameters to list, because its inputs are levels drawn on a chart and a judgment about what counts as confirmation. That is also where the real variance lives — two traders working from the same concept can place zones differently and get entirely different results. No rule set has been extracted for this entry, so this page covers the concept and the context of the source video rather than a decoded step-by-step breakdown.

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Frequently asked questions

What are traps and POIs in Smart Money Concepts?

A trap is a move engineered through an obvious high or low to trigger the stop orders resting there before price reverses. A POI, or point of interest, is a zone marked on the chart in advance — often an order block, imbalance, or prior liquidity level — where the trader waits for price to react instead of entering mid-move.

Can a traps and POIs strategy really be traded in two hours a day?

The two-hour framing in the video title describes screen time, not results. Zone-based approaches do lend themselves to short sessions, because the analytical work — marking the points of interest — happens before the market opens and the session is mostly spent waiting for price to reach those zones. It is a scheduling claim about how the method is worked, not a statement about profitability.

Why does this strategy list no indicators or timeframe?

Because trap and POI trading is a price-structure approach rather than an indicator-driven one. There are no settings to record when the inputs are hand-drawn zones and a discretionary read of how price behaves at them. That is also why results depend heavily on where the zones are placed and what the trader accepts as confirmation.

How do I evaluate a discretionary strategy like this before trading it?

Define your own rules for zone selection and entry confirmation first, then test them on historical data and log every trade — a discretionary method only becomes measurable once you have written down what you actually do. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies like this one from video sources so you can see the concept and context before deciding whether it fits your approach.

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