I noticed that many people are interested in how to track the movements of large players in the market. By the way, the smart money strategy is exactly about this: you watch what institutions, funds, and large traders are doing, and you understand where the price might go.

The thing is, these guys don’t reveal their plans, but if you skillfully watch their big trades and how the price action changes, you can pull a lot of useful insights. For this, I use several tools in TradingView.

Practically speaking, here’s what I do. I open TradingView, go to the Indicators section, and add a few helpers there. In the free version, you can use a maximum of two at the same time, but that’s enough.

The first one is Liquidity H/L—it shows where liquidity has accumulated, that is, where other traders’ stop orders are. The second indicator is Asion Session Range—it suggests the times when trading sessions open: Asia is Tokyo, roughly from 2:00 to 12:00, Europe is Frankfurt from 9:00 to 18:00, and America is New York from 16:00 to 2:00. It’s very helpful for understanding which kinds of moves you can expect during which hours.

But honestly, the most powerful tool is Smart Money Concept from LuxAlgo. It already brings together everything you need for full trading using this strategy: order blocks, imbalances, liquidity, НН and HL levels. One indicator, and all the information is right in front of you.

The smart money strategy requires patience, but the results are worth it. Once you start seeing the logic of big players, trading becomes much more meaningful. This is the kind of approach I use for BTC and ETH, and it works pretty well.