Trading concepts, explained clearly
Understand the methodology behind every AlgoKings indicator. These free guides cover the core ideas serious traders use to read institutional order flow.
Smart Money Concepts (SMC) Explained
What Smart Money Concepts (SMC) are, the core ideas — market structure, order blocks, liquidity and fair value gaps — and how traders use them.
Read guide →What Is a Fair Value Gap (FVG)?
A clear definition of fair value gaps (FVG), how they form, why price returns to them, and how traders use them for entries and targets.
Read guide →ICT Trading Concepts: A Beginner's Guide
An introduction to ICT (Inner Circle Trader) concepts — liquidity, order blocks, fair value gaps, killzones and SMT divergence — and how they fit together.
Read guide →Goldbach Trading & PO3 Explained
What Goldbach trading and the Power of Three (PO3) framework are, how partition levels work, and how traders apply them for market timing.
Read guide →What Is Algorithmic Trading?
A plain-English explanation of algorithmic trading, how it differs from indicators and automation, and where rules-based tools fit for retail traders.
Read guide →The Best Smart Money Concepts Indicators for TradingView
A practical guide to the best Smart Money Concepts (SMC) indicators for TradingView — market structure, fair value gaps, liquidity and order blocks — and how to choose.
Read guide →The Best Goldbach Indicators for TradingView
A guide to the best Goldbach indicators for TradingView — partition levels, number projections and PO3 timing — and how to choose the right Goldbach tools.
Read guide →The Best Fair Value Gap (FVG) Indicator for TradingView
How to pick the best fair value gap (FVG) indicator for TradingView — automatic detection, mitigation tracking and clean styling — and how AlgoKings' FVG compares.
Read guide →Order Blocks Explained: How to Spot and Trade Them
What an order block is, how to identify bullish and bearish order blocks, how traders use them for entries, and how they differ from fair value gaps.
Read guide →Liquidity Sweeps & Stop Runs Explained
What a liquidity sweep (stop run) is, why price seeks liquidity above highs and below lows, and how Smart Money traders trade the reversal after a sweep.
Read guide →BOS vs CHoCH: Break of Structure & Change of Character
The difference between Break of Structure (BOS) and Change of Character (CHoCH), and how Smart Money traders use market structure to set bias.
Read guide →What Is Liquidity in Trading?
Liquidity is how easily an asset can be bought or sold without moving its price. Learn how it's measured, why it matters, and what it means in SMC.
Read guide →Premium and Discount Zones (SMC) Explained
How premium and discount zones work in Smart Money Concepts: equilibrium, the dealing range, OTE, and using them as a confluence filter.
Read guide →Inducement Explained (Smart Money Concepts)
Inducement (IDM) in Smart Money Concepts is a tempting price move that traps early traders to build liquidity. Learn to spot it, confirm, and place stops.
Read guide →Breaker Blocks Explained
What a breaker block is, how bullish and bearish breakers form after a liquidity sweep, and how traders use them as reversal zones in SMC/ICT.
Read guide →Mitigation Blocks Explained
What a mitigation block is in Smart Money Concepts trading: a continuation zone that forms on a failure swing, how to spot it, and how it differs from a breaker block.
Read guide →Equal Highs and Lows (Liquidity) Explained
What equal highs (EQH) and equal lows (EQL) are, why they mark resting liquidity, and how traders read the sweep with confirmation instead of blindly.
Read guide →Market Structure Shift (MSS) Explained
A Market Structure Shift (MSS) is the first technical sign a trend may reverse. Learn how to spot it, MSS vs BOS vs ChoCH, and how to trade it.
Read guide →Displacement in Trading Explained
Displacement in ICT trading is a sharp, high-momentum move signalling institutional order flow. Learn how to spot it, the FVG link, and how it confirms bias.
Read guide →Optimal Trade Entry (OTE) Explained
Optimal Trade Entry (OTE) explained: the ICT Fibonacci retracement zone (0.62-0.79, 0.705 sweet spot) for high-probability trend-continuation entries.
Read guide →Inversion Fair Value Gap (IFVG) Explained
An Inversion Fair Value Gap (IFVG) is a broken FVG that flips its role from support to resistance or vice versa. Learn how it forms and how traders use it.
Read guide →Internal vs External Liquidity Explained
Internal vs external liquidity explained: how IRL and ERL sit inside and outside the ICT dealing range, why price rotates between them, and how to map it.
Read guide →The Power of Three (PO3) Explained
Power of Three (PO3) explained: the ICT AMD model of Accumulation, Manipulation, and Distribution, how it maps to a candle, and how traders use it.
Read guide →The Judas Swing Explained (ICT)
The Judas Swing is an ICT concept describing a false move at session open that sweeps liquidity before price reverses in its true direction.
Read guide →SMT Divergence Explained
SMT divergence explained: how two correlated markets fail to confirm each other at a swing point, why it signals a liquidity sweep, and how to read it.
Read guide →ICT Killzones Explained
ICT Killzones are recurring intraday time windows when institutional activity is believed to peak. Learn the four zones, exact times, DST handling, and how to use them.
Read guide →Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution (AMD)
Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution (AMD) explained: the three-phase smart money cycle, its link to ICT Power of Three and Wyckoff, and how traders read it.
Read guide →Risk-Reward Ratio Explained
Learn how the risk-reward ratio works, how to calculate it from entry, stop, and target, and why win rate and expectancy matter more than the number.
Read guide →Position Sizing in Trading Explained
Position sizing decides how much capital to commit per trade. Learn the risk-based formula, the 1-2% rule, ATR and Kelly methods, and worked examples.
Read guide →Forex Trading Sessions Explained (London, New York, Asia)
Forex trading sessions explained: London, New York, Tokyo and Sydney hours in UTC, the key overlaps, which pairs move when, and the daylight-saving caveat.
Read guide →Support and Resistance Explained
Support and resistance explained: what these price zones are, how to identify them, the role-reversal flip, and how traders use them with risk in mind.
Read guide →How to Add Indicators to TradingView
Learn how to add indicators to TradingView: built-in studies, Community Scripts, invite-only/paid scripts, Pine Script, plan limits, and mobile.
Read guide →How to Trade Fair Value Gaps (Step by Step)
Learn how to trade fair value gaps step by step: spot the 3-candle imbalance, mark the zone, wait for a retrace, and manage risk with a clear plan.
Read guide →The Best ICT Indicators for TradingView
A practical guide to the best ICT indicators for TradingView — order blocks, fair value gaps, liquidity, market structure and killzones — and how to choose.
Read guide →The Best Liquidity Indicator for TradingView
What a liquidity indicator shows on TradingView, how buyside/sellside zones and sweeps work, and how to choose and use one with confluence.
Read guide →Smart Money Concepts vs ICT: What's the Difference?
SMC vs ICT explained: ICT is one trader's branded methodology; SMC is the broader community version derived from it. They overlap heavily. Honest, no-hype guide.
Read guide →Supply and Demand Zones Explained
Supply and demand zones are chart areas where a sharp move began, marking likely buying or selling interest. Learn how to find, draw and trade them.
Read guide →Order Blocks vs Supply and Demand Zones: The Real Difference
Order blocks vs supply and demand zones: an order block is a stricter, candle-specific subset of a supply/demand zone, tied to a break in structure. Here's the difference.
Read guide →The ICT 2022 Model Explained
The ICT 2022 model is a liquidity sweep into a market-structure shift into a fair-value-gap entry, traded during killzone hours. Here is how it works, and what the evidence does and does not show.
Read guide →The ICT Silver Bullet Strategy Explained
The ICT Silver Bullet is a time-based entry model: inside a one-hour New York window, you take the first fair value gap that forms in your bias direction.
Read guide →Stop Hunts Explained: How Smart Money Targets Stops
A stop hunt is a price move into clustered stop-loss orders that triggers them, often before a reversal. Learn how stop hunting works and where stops tend to cluster.
Read guide →How to Trade Order Blocks
How to trade order blocks: spot the last opposing candle before a structure break, wait for price to return, then enter with risk defined beyond the zone.
Read guide →How to Read Market Structure: A Practical Guide to BOS, CHoCH & Swings
Learn how to read market structure using swing highs/lows, BOS, and CHoCH. A clear, honest guide to trends, ranges, and confirming breaks with candle closes.
Read guide →Break of Structure (BOS) Explained
A Break of Structure (BOS) is a trend-continuation signal: price closes beyond the prior swing point in the trend's direction. Here's how to read it.
Read guide →Change of Character (CHoCH) Explained
A Change of Character (CHoCH) is the first structural break against the prevailing trend — an early warning of a possible reversal, not a confirmed one. Here's how it works.
Read guide →Best Order Block Indicators for TradingView: A Practical Buyer's Guide
The best order block indicator for TradingView is non-repainting, multi-timeframe, renders cleanly, and offers alerts. Here is how to evaluate one honestly.
Read guide →Best TradingView Indicators for Gold (XAUUSD): An Honest Buyer's Guide
There is no single best TradingView indicator for gold. The right toolkit combines volatility (ATR), structure, and liquidity tools that fit XAUUSD's wicks and sessions.
Read guide →Dealing Ranges and IPDA Explained
A dealing range is the swing-high-to-swing-low span split into premium, equilibrium, and discount. Learn ICT dealing ranges and IPDA honestly, hype-free.
Read guide →How to Trade Liquidity in Smart Money Concepts: A Practical Guide
Learn how to trade liquidity in Smart Money Concepts: what buy-side and sell-side liquidity are, how to spot a sweep, and a step-by-step liquidity trading strategy.
Read guide →Smart Money & ICT Trading Glossary: Terms and Abbreviations Explained
A plain-English smart money concepts glossary: 30+ ICT trading terms and abbreviations explained, from FVG and BOS to PO3, OTE and Goldbach levels.
Read guide →How to Choose the Right TradingView Indicator: A Buyer's Guide
How to choose a TradingView indicator: check repainting, multi-timeframe support, backtesting, clean charts, updates, and free vs paid - matched to your strategy.
Read guide →Put the theory to work
AlgoKings indicators automate these concepts on your TradingView charts.