Core Concepts
Start the LiquidityLab English concept library with market structure, price action, liquidity, SMC mapping, and framework translation.
This is the English concept hub for LiquidityLab.
Do not try to read every concept at once.
Use the concepts in the same order as the LiquidityLab Market Structure OS:
Structure -> Price Action -> Liquidity -> Framework Mapping -> ReviewThe goal is to describe market behavior before using framework-specific language.
1. Start with structure
These pages help you describe what price is doing now:
- Market Structure Basics
- Trading Range Structure
- Trend Reversal Framework
- Pullback and Breakout Structures
- Multi-Timeframe Structure Integrity
Useful question:
Is price trending, pulling back, ranging, or transitioning?
2. Add price-action reading
Use these after the structure is clear:
- Price Action Reading Basics
- Chart Patterns as Observation Language
- The Five Elements of a Candlestick
- Candlestick Emotion Language
- Reaction at Key Levels
Useful question:
What is price showing at this location?
3. Add key levels and liquidity
Use these to understand where attention and orders may cluster:
Useful question:
Which visible highs, lows, or boundaries matter for observation?
4. Use SMC / ICT as framework language
Use these only after the neutral structure is clear:
- SMC Liquidity and Order Flow Language
- SMC and Price Action Integration Language
- Fair Value Gap
- Order Block
- Premium / Discount Array
- PD Array Structure-Reference Sequence
- Inducement
- Mitigation Block
- Power of Three
Useful question:
What does SMC / ICT call the same visible structure?
Not:
Does this term tell me what to trade?
5. Compare other frameworks safely
Use these as translation layers:
- Framework Mapping Learning Path
- Wyckoff Method Market Cycle
- Harmonic Patterns Observation Language
- Elliott Wave Driving Structures
- Elliott Wave Corrective Structures
- Chan Theory Structure Language
Useful question:
How does this framework describe the same structure, and what does it not prove?
A safe reading routine
If you are new, use this order:
- Read LiquidityLab Market Structure OS.
- Read Market Structure Basics.
- Read Four Market Scenarios Framework.
- Read Price Action Reading Basics.
- Then choose one framework mapping page.
Stop before turning concepts into entries, stops, targets, position size, leverage, or return expectations.
Concepts are for reading and review.
They are not trading instructions.
Educational content only. Not financial advice.