Strategies School: ICT, Smart Money Concepts, Price Action and the Top 10 Strategies

25 lessons with annotated chart diagrams, trade plans and quizzes. Pass them all for one verifiable certificate.

The 10 most famous strategies

1. ICT / Smart Money Concepts: Structure, liquidity, order blocks, fair value gaps and entry models (13 lessons)
2. Price Action: Pin bars, inside bars, support and resistance, supply and demand
3. Trend Following with Moving Averages: Buy pullbacks to the 20 EMA in a trend
4. Breakout and Retest: Trade range breakouts on the retest
5. Fibonacci Retracement: Pullback entries at 38.2%, 50% and 61.8%
6. Wyckoff Method: Accumulation, the spring and the sign of strength
7. Elliott Wave: The five-wave impulse and its three rules
8. RSI Divergence: Momentum fading at highs and lows
9. Bollinger Band Squeeze: Trade the volatility expansion
10. Ichimoku Cloud: Trend, momentum and support in one view

ICT / Smart Money Concepts

• Market Structure: BOS and CHoCH: Read who is in control by tracking swing highs and lows, and learn the two signals that matter: break of structure and change of character.
• Liquidity and Stop Hunts: Understand where stop orders pile up and why price often spikes through obvious highs and lows before reversing.
• Order Blocks: Find the last opposite candle before a strong move and use it as a zone to enter when price returns.
• Fair Value Gaps (Imbalance): Spot three-candle imbalances and use the gap as a retracement entry zone.
• Premium, Discount and the OTE Zone: Split a range at 50% and buy cheap, sell expensive. Use the 62 to 79% retracement as a sweet spot.
• Sessions and Kill Zones: Know when the market tends to move. Trade during the high-activity windows and avoid the dead hours.
• Putting It Together: A Full Entry Model: Combine liquidity, structure and a fair value gap into one checklist with defined entry, stop and target.
• Breaker Blocks: When an order block fails, it often flips role. Learn to trade the retest of a breaker.
• Inducement: The Trap Before the Move: Minor highs and lows near a zone lure traders in early. Understand why price often takes them out before the real move.
• Power of Three: Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution: Many sessions follow three phases: a quiet range, a false move against the real direction, then the true move.
• SMT Divergence Between Correlated Markets: When two correlated markets disagree at a high or low, the weaker one can warn that a move is not confirmed.
• Daily Bias and the Draw on Liquidity: Decide whether to look for buys or sells today using the previous day high and low and higher timeframe structure.
• The Silver Bullet: A Time-Based Setup: A short-window setup: look for a sweep and a fair value gap inside defined one-hour windows.

Price Action

• Support and Resistance Flips: When a level breaks, old resistance often becomes support. Learn to trade the retest.
• Pin Bar Rejection at Support and Resistance: A long-tailed candle at a key level is one of the simplest and most popular price action setups.
• Inside Bar Breakout: A small candle inside the previous large one shows compression. Trade the break of the mother bar.
• Supply and Demand Zones: Find the base before an explosive move and trade the return to that zone.

Trend & Indicators

• Trend Pullbacks to the Moving Average: Trade with the trend by buying pullbacks to a moving average instead of chasing breakouts.
• RSI Divergence: When price makes a new extreme but RSI does not, momentum may be fading. Learn to trade it with confirmation.
• Bollinger Band Squeeze: Volatility moves in cycles. When the bands tighten, a larger move often follows.
• Ichimoku Cloud Strategy: A single indicator that shows trend, momentum and support in one view.

Classic Methods

• Range Breakout and Retest: Trade a clean breakout from consolidation, but enter on the retest instead of chasing.
• Fibonacci Retracement Strategy: Use the 38.2%, 50% and 61.8% levels to find pullback entries in a trend.
• Wyckoff Accumulation and the Spring: Read how large players build positions in a range and trade the spring and sign of strength.
• Elliott Wave: The Five-Wave Impulse: Learn the three rules of an impulse and how to trade the wave 3 and the correction.