Retail vs Smart Money ExamplesIn this example, we will look into the parallel channel formed on AUDUSD.
How Retail View the Breakout:
Price broke and re-tested the breakout trendline
Price should now continue bearish after showing signs of rejection
How Smart Money View the Breakout:
Price broke out of the retail trendline, liquidity has now been formed in their stop loss region
Once this area is wiped, we could consider sells from the order block that created it.
SMC
Smart Money Concepts Diagram With Wyckoff SchematicsThis is a Smart Money Concepts Diagram With Labeled Wyckoff Accumulation And Distribution Schematics.
These are the main smart money trade setups that you will find in your charts, this is how smart money (big banks, funds, composite man, etc.) manipulate markets to engineer liquidity.
Wyckoff methods teach a bigger picture view of the markets and why they are moving, many times you will see smart money setups inside of bigger picture Wyckoff schematics that form certain parts of the schematic itself.
I hope you find this to be a useful reference diagram for Smart Money trade setups 😁
If you have any questions please comment below and I can make updates to the F.A.Q.
Educational ContentIn this example, we can see that this is a typical trend continuation move.
1. Bullish impulse leg, followed by a "Consolidation before breakout".
2. For those who trade with SMC = Smart Money Concept, you will identify the breakout zone as an ORDER BLOCK .
3. Prices made a Swing High, followed by a "FALLING WEDGE" pattern, forming liquidity beneath the minor swing lows while approaching the ORDER BLOCK .
4. 1st Buy Entry would be at "OB1 - PRIMARY ZONE".
5. 2nd Buy Entry would be a classic "Breakout Retest" retail trading technique.
This is how you combine Retail Logic with Smart Money Concept.