Get Your Free TST Merchandise Today
Sign up to one of our 3 months or Annually memberships today, drop us a message and we’ll send you out a piece of free TST merchandise. (Other would charge for this, but we are a team)
Market Preparation Delivered
Prepare for your trading week with our unique strategy insights. Dylan and Max break down the Forex, Commodities, Indices and Crypto markets on a weekly basis to give you an over the shoulder look into the markets. Compare, adapt and capitalise. (45 minutes + in length)
We've been featured in publications worldwide
Clients and Results
Godfrey Hope reviewed The Social Traders
@ GB
19th Aug 2020
Paul Metcalf reviewed The Social Traders
@ GB
2nd July 2020
Tom Cowley reviewed The Social Traders
@ GB
15th June 2021
James Collins reviewed The Social Traders
@ GB
10th July 2020
“Amazing community and the guys are top notch👌🏼 super helpful and super responsive, never have I learnt so much about trading since I joined this community.”
The Social Traders has guided 1000+ Students It’s Academy
We’ve helped students and traders just like you fast track their results and sky rocket their percentage returns, delivering growth financially and psychologically by combining practical training with mindset and discipline modules to deliver exponential results.
- 5.0
According to TrustPilot
Key Trading Principle #3 of 7: How to use Smart Money Concepts for insane results
(By the way, if you are a trader who is struggling for consistency you can qualify for free TST merchandise by checking the boxes at the end of the article. The pros of joining the pro team ay?)
What do we mean by smart money concepts or SMC as it is often referred to. Smart money is capital placed in the market by institutional investors, market movers, central banks, funds, and other financial professionals. … Smart money is invested on a much larger scale than retail investments therefore moving the market when orders are triggered.
#1 How we use SMC to gauge liquidity with patterns
We don’t often disclose this information as this is one of the key methodologies within our pro SMC and Patterns strategy.
Also, If you haven’t read our Key Trading Principle#2 Where we cover patterns, we recommend checking that article out before we cover this topic.
Let’s jump straight into it…
This is a setup on GBPUSD
I’ve highlighted a pattern we would be interested in here.
I like how price action is beginning to stall, there is corrective price action and the bears look to be bottoming out. These are price action indicators that the market is looking to reverse.
However, where do we look to trade long?
Now, the majority of traders will be trading the long from the structure I have highlighted within the market. Price has bounced from here before therefore the theory is that it will happen again… this is how the masses think, the so called ‘retail traders’.
However that is not the case, let’s drop in our SMC methodology to understand what is truly going on with this price action from a liquidity standpoint.
This is a setup The Social Traders would trade using our Pattern Play and SMC strategy,
To incorporate a methodology that caters for liquidity I have:
Highlighted where the lows are within the market
Highlighted institutional down orders (30 minute order block)
Drawn out the 50% of the down orders for mechanical entry
This has meant our orders are sat below the entries and stop losses of the three previous lows within the market,
When these traders get taken out we look to enter therefore creating liquidity to push price to the upside.
This is the result:
Out of the move for 1:6.5RR a nice intraday move for our team
#2 How we use SMC for refinement on entries
Let’s take a look at the same example on GBPUSD,
Last time we looked at the move we took orders from the 30 minute timeframe.
The 30 minute and 15 minute timeframe are great for refinement and to be honest where we spend the majority of time when trading the lower time frames.
However, more experienced traders can really refine their entries by dropping to lower time frames such as the 5 minute or potentially 1 minute.
This can yield insane returns.
I have now refined this order block down to the 5 minute timeframe, it’s not a huge change in the scenario but does make a difference to the trades outcome and can be refined even further using our pro strategy.
The outcome of this trade has now increased from 1:6.5RR
To an increased 1:7.63RR
In addition, we noticed no extra need for additional protection. If the trade went against us our stop loss would be placed in the same location and therefore our risk was defined and protected.
#3 How we use SMC to set our profit taking regions.
Understanding smart money concepts is not only beneficial for entry.
We can use this methodology to predict and set profit regions within the market.
The most profitable traders will have forecasted, planned and have set profit regions planned out well before executing a trade.
This is so that entry and exit of the market is mechanical, protecting a traders psychology and trading capital once the move develops.
In the same GBPUSD example let’s run through our take profit regions.
Take profit regions are fairly straight forward to gauge within the market. Using SMC we can find and locate the most probable areas of the market reversing.
Essentially using the same methodology that got us into the trade in the reverse!
You see how this profit lines up with the pattern I have drawn here!
I have highlighted 30 minute buy orders within the market, these orders drove prices higher before printing heavy sell candles and breaking structure (off of shot) – therefore there is a high probability that this is the market movers attempting to change the trend and failing.
These traders may still be sitting in position and therefore need to push price action back into these orders to get out without damaging capital.
So once price does hit these levels we see the market stall out and potentially reverse… our trade is finished.
Based on price action on the way up, we can highlight either the full order block or the 50% of the orders block. This is where our understanding of price action and discretion comes back in (covered in trading principle #1 price action is still king).
Unfortunately though, understanding smart money concepts to its fullest is not something you will be able to pick up from reading this one article – it will help sure, but to get the most out of the market that’s where our expertise comes into play. And this whole website gives you a taste of what we can do.
Happy Trading!
Warmest Wishes,
The Social Traders
What’s your goal today?
1. Join The Social Traders To Improve Your Profitability
We’ve helped over five hundred traders, using our unique SMC & Patterns strategy. To discover how we can help level up your trading:
- Read our case studies and articles
- Learn about us, and our unique values, beliefs and community Visit our “Strategy” page to see the processes we use within the markets
- Claim your FREE TST merchandise by signing up to one of our 3 month or annual packages.
2. Learn how to trade to the highest level
Jump back into our SMC & Patterns strategy, our strategy dashboard will give you access to module 1 this includes our highly rated videos ‘The art of discretion’, ‘The power of liquidity’ and ‘The beauty of the swing’
Join pro and browse over 25 videos and articles, containing an amazing number of useful tools and techniques. Many traders tell us they have simplified and refined their process resulting in consistency by following the advice in these videos and articles.
Jump to strategy now
3. Join our team (we’re actively looking for new team members)
If you want to join our team—or discover why our team members love The Social Traders —then see our “sign up” page.
4. Contact us
We help businesses worldwide, so get in touch!
Ready To Become A Better Trader?
Select The Training Plan That’s Best For You.
MONTHLY
£39.99
Billed Monthly
- Instant & Unlimited Access To The Killer SMC & Pattern Strategy - Video Content
- Instant & Unlimited Access To The Killer SMC & Pattern Strategy - Written Content
- Unlock The Social Traders Pro Insights - Updated Daily
- Unlock Evening Video Vault - Updated Daily
- Unlock Extended Market Breakdown Analysis - Updated Weekly
- Unlock Unlimited Access To Our Premium Vault Of Pro Trade Recap Sessions
- Invitation To Join Our Exclusive Global Social Traders Community With Unlimited Access
THREE MONTHS
£99.99
Most Popular Save 18%
- Instant & Unlimited Access To The Killer SMC & Pattern Strategy - Video Contentideo Content
- Instant & Unlimited Access To The Killer SMC & Pattern Strategy - Written Content
- Unlock The Social Traders Pro Insights - Updated Daily
- Unlock Evening Video Vault - Updated Daily
- Unlock Extended Market Breakdown Analysis - Updated Weekly
- Unlock Unlimited Access To Our Premium Vault Of Pro Trade Recap Sessions
- Invitation To Join Our Exclusive Global Social Traders Community With Unlimited Access
- Exclusive UK Member Benefits - Free Branded Merchandise
ANNUALY
£319.99
Save 33.3%
- Instant & Unlimited Access To The Killer SMC & Pattern Strategy - Video Content
- Instant & Unlimited Access To The Killer SMC & Pattern Strategy - Written Content
- Unlock The Social Traders Pro Insights - Updated Daily
- Unlock Evening Video Vault - Updated Daily
- Unlock Extended Market Breakdown Analysis - Updated Weekly
- Unlock Unlimited Access To Our Premium Vault Of Pro Trade Recap Sessions
- Invitation To Join Our Exclusive Global Social Traders Community With Unlimited Access
- Exclusive UK Member Benefits - Free Branded Merchandise
BECOME A PROFESSIONAL TRADER
Join today for £1.
Private trading group. Market preparation delivered. Cancel Anytime.
Godfrey Hope reviewed The Social Traders
“Great community of like minded people. The content is engaging for newcomers and experienced traders. The support is first rate. Well done to a fantastic team!”
Paul Metcalf reviewed The Social Traders
"What a fantastic group. From people new to the scene to experienced traders this team has it all. Idea sharing, technical analysis and up to date information regarding impactful news…”
Tom Cowley reviewed The Social Traders
“Excellent community with a great platform for education. Dylan and Max certainly know their stuff and I have really developed as a trader from the courses, the evening updates”
James Collins reviewed The Social Traders
“Amazing community and the guys are top notch👌🏼 super helpful and super responsive, never have I learnt so much about trading since I joined this community.”
