SMC TrainingAdvanced
Market Profile Advanced Concepts: Beyond the Basics
Profile shapes, composite profiles, initial balance, and open type: reading day structure beyond the value area.
Author
Chriss Rakoot
130 lessons
Lessons
Order FlowExpert
Auction Market Theory: Value, Balance, and Imbalance
How price discovers fair value through two-sided auctions, and what value areas, balance, and imbalance tell you about a market.
Order FlowExpert
Order Flow Imbalances: Predicting Short-Term Direction
Order flow imbalances show when buyers or sellers are far more aggressive, often signaling which way price moves next.
Order FlowAdvanced
Time and Sales Tape Reading: Advanced Techniques
A practical guide to reading time and sales: trade aggressor, large prints, absorption patterns, and timing entries and exits.
Market StrategiesAdvanced
Volume Patterns: Beyond Basic Volume Analysis
A deeper look at volume patterns: climaxes, accumulation and distribution, volume dry-up, relative volume, and gap analysis.
Market StrategiesIntermediate
Spoofing and Layering: Recognizing Market Manipulation
Spoofing and layering use fake orders to mislead other traders. Here's how to recognize the red flags and avoid being deceived by…
Order FlowAdvanced
High-Frequency Trading and Its Market Impact
How high-frequency trading works, the strategies HFT firms use, and what it means for Order Flow interpretation and retail trading.
Order FlowIntermediate
Algorithmic Trading: What Retail Traders Need to Know
Algorithms drive most market volume today. Here's where they have the edge over retail traders, and where you still do.
Order FlowExpert
Institutional Order Execution: How Big Money Moves
How institutions execute large orders without moving the market, and the footprints those orders leave in order flow.
SMC TrainingAdvanced
Market Makers and Liquidity Providers: The Hidden Players
How market makers profit from the spread, why adverse selection and inventory risk work against them, and what their quotes reveal.