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Technical Basics

Smart Money Concepts from scratch — read price itself, with no indicator between you and the candle.

BeginnerGlobal markets

What you'll learn

Read any chart naked — no indicators — candle by candle
The two candle types, market structure, the BOS and the Shift (MSS)
Where liquidity sits, what a sweep is, and why a correction is an organized stop-hunt
The three Smart-Money engines: the Fair Value Gap, the Order Block and the Breaker
The entry tools: the 50% (premium/discount), the OTE golden zone, and the Fibonacci Extension
Frame relation across four timeframes, and a clear daily routine to start

Course content

4 sections · 19 lectures
🎬Candles: Only Two Types
🎬Reading Wicks: The 50% Rule
🎬Market Structure: Highs, Lows, BOS & Shift
🎬Liquidity: Where the Money Sleeps
🎬Practice A — Reading Drills

Requirements

  • No prior experience needed
  • A free TradingView account
  • A notebook and commitment to the drills

Description

Every indicator you tried and it didn't work had one problem: it reads the past. This course teaches you to read price itself — why it moves, who moves it, and where it's going — the Smart Money Concepts way, from zero. You understand each rule once, then see it on every chart you open. Four units — Reading the Chart, Areas of Interest, The Tools, and Putting It Together — build one working routine. Understand, don't memorize. The method applies to any market: a candle is a candle.

Who this course is for

  • Beginners who want a correct Smart-Money foundation from day one
  • Traders who circled through indicators and strategies without results
  • Anyone who wants to read the market themselves, not wait for a signal

Instructor

Mustapha El Hajj
Mustapha El Hajj
Founder of DM Trading — I teach the exact method I trade with

I'm Mustapha El Hajj, founder of DM Trading. I built this course to teach the way I actually read a chart — no indicators, just price, structure and liquidity. Everything here is the method I use myself, explained lesson by lesson so you can read the market on your own.

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