Keep a detailed record of your SMC trades, noting why you took the position, what the market structure was, and the outcome. Elevating Your Strategy Beyond the PDF

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Set your Stop Loss tightly just below the invalidation point of the LTF structural low/high.

Price fails to hold the trend and aggressively breaks the opposite swing point, signaling a potential trend reversal. 2. Order Blocks (OB)

Elias watched the price plummet. He waited. Finally, the price slowed and crawled back up, retracing perfectly into that "boring" consolidation zone—the Order Block—and tapping right into the Fair Value Gap.

Five thousand miles away, in a small apartment in Chicago, Mark sat at his desk. Mark was a "Top" retail trader. He had studied patterns, memorized the "Head and Shoulders," and had a sleek trading setup. He was confident. The EUR/USD pair had been falling all morning, and Mark was ready to catch the "top" of the move and ride it back up.