This is the best basic list + a professional list for traders under the Smart Money system.
🔥 First: Basic terms (every trader must know them)
1️⃣ Trend – Trend
Uptrend: Upward trend (higher peaks and troughs than the previous ones).
Downtrend: Downward trend.
2️⃣ Support – Support
A zone where the decline stops and the rise begins.
3️⃣ Resistance – Resistance
A zone where the rise stops and the decline begins.
4️⃣ Breakout – Breakout
When the price breaks a support or resistance level.
5️⃣ Pullback – Retest
Price return to test an area after breaking it.
6️⃣ Volume – Trading volume
Measures the strength of trades. Higher means large money inflow.
7️⃣ Liquidity – Liquidity is the accumulation points for stop-loss orders (institutional food).
🔥 Second: Trend analysis and price behavior terms (Price Action)
8️⃣ Structure – Market structure, the way peaks and troughs are formed.
9️⃣ BOS – Break of Structure
Breaking market structure.
📌 Means: trend change.
🔟 CHOCH – Change of Character
Early signal for trend change before BOS.
1️⃣1️⃣ Swing High / Swing Low
Clear top / clear bottom.
1️⃣2️⃣ Wick – Wick of the candle
Indicates price rejection.
🔥 Third: Smart Money (SMC) terms – professional level
1️⃣3️⃣ OB – Order Block
The last candle before a strong move. Institutional entry area.
1️⃣4️⃣ FVG – Fair Value Gap
Unfilled price gap. The price often returns to fill it.
1️⃣5️⃣ Imbalance – Imbalance
Like FVG, but wider and less precise.
1️⃣6️⃣ Mitigation – Mitigation
Price returning to OB to mitigate institutional orders.
1️⃣7️⃣ Supply – Supply
Strong sell area (like a bearish OB).
1️⃣8️⃣ Demand – Demand
Strong buy area.
1️⃣9️⃣ Stop Hunt – Stop hunting
When the price quickly breaks a top/bottom to grab liquidity only.
2️⃣0️⃣ Liquidity Grab – Liquidity grab
Same idea as Stop Hunt, but clearer and more professional.
2️⃣1️⃣ Internal Structure – Internal structure
Small movement within the large movement.
2️⃣2️⃣ External Structure – External structure
The larger overall trend.
🔥 Fourth: Risk management terms
2️⃣3️⃣ SL – Stop Loss
Stop loss.
2️⃣4️⃣ TP – Take Profit
Profit target.
2️⃣5️⃣ RR – Risk to Reward
Profit to risk ratio (e.g. 1:3).
2️⃣6️⃣ Lot Size – Contract size
The amount of the contract you enter with.
2️⃣7️⃣ Leverage – Leverage
Increase the trade size (risky if used incorrectly).
🔥 Fifth: Trading platform terms
2️⃣8️⃣ Spot – Spot trading
Buying the real asset (without leverage).
2️⃣9️⃣ Futures – Futures contracts
Trading with leverage and entering a buy or sell position.
3️⃣0️⃣ Long – Buy
Expect a rise.
3️⃣1️⃣ Short – Sell
Expect a drop.
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