Bonus — The Complete SMC/ICT Strategy Compendium

Lessons 1 through 10 built the vocabulary and walked through individual setups one at a time. This bonus lesson does the opposite: it collects every popular SMC/ICT strategy — the 8 already covered plus 10 more that circulate widely — into one ranked reference, sorted by how mechanically precise each one's actual entry rule is.

The Precision Ranking

Tier 1 — Highly Mechanical (5 strategies)

Flagship: OTE + Order Block Confluence

The single most mechanical strategy in the compendium — it's just Lesson 3's order block and Lesson 7's Optimal Trade Entry zone required to overlap before an entry counts.

The July 8 down-candle (order block, 55.6–57.9 origin) sits directly inside the 55.2–55.9 OTE band measured off the July 5–7 swing. Price retraces into both at once on July 12 — the confluence is what earns this Tier 1's top slot, not either zone alone.

The rest of Tier 1

Full worked examples for Turtle Soup, Silver Bullet, and the 2022 Model already live in Lesson 6: ICT Setups & Models — no need to duplicate the chart here. Break-and-Retest is exactly the walkthrough in Lesson 1: Market Structure, just given its own name.

Tier 2 — Moderately Precise (7 strategies)

Judas Swing and Unicorn Model are covered in full in Lesson 6 — both land here because confirming them still takes a judgment call (was that really the false move, or the real one?) even though the setup shape is clear.

Breaker Block Reversal

A failed order block flips polarity and becomes the new entry zone — the opposite side trades it instead of the original side.

1. The bullish order block — July 1's small down-candle (79.8–80.6) is the origin of the July 2–5 rally.
2. The failure — July 7–8 closes clean back through the entire order block range, invalidating it as support.
3. Flip — the 79.8–80.6 zone is now a breaker: resistance instead of support.
4. Retest — July 9–10 rallies back into the breaker zone and rejects, closing back below it.
5. Entry — on the July 10 rejection, stop above the breaker high (80.7), targeting a continuation of the July 12–13 decline.

Mitigation Block Entry

A tighter, more conservative cousin of the order block — the entry zone is the narrow consolidation right before a fast move, not the whole launch candle's range.

1. The narrow zone — July 1–2's tight 39.6–39.9 consolidation, just before the launch candle, not the launch candle itself.
2. The launch — July 5 rockets away from that zone.
3. The full retracement — July 9–10 pulls all the way back, past a standard order block entry, into the tighter mitigation zone specifically.
4. Entry — July 12 tags 39.65 (inside the narrow zone) and holds, closing at 39.9.

Inversion FVG (IFVG) Reversal

A fair value gap that price closes back through completely flips polarity — support becomes resistance, or resistance becomes support.

1. The original FVG — the July 1→2→5 sequence leaves a bullish gap between 89.6 and 90.4, first read as support.
2. The inversion — July 7 closes clean through the entire gap (below 89.6), flipping it to resistance.
3. Retest from below — July 9–10 rallies back up into the now-resistance 89.6–90.4 zone and rejects, closing at 89.6.
4. Entry — on the July 10 rejection, stop above the zone (90.5), targeting a continuation of the July 12 decline.

NY AM Session Reversal

A reversal timed specifically to the 10:00–11:00am NY killzone from Lesson 8 — same mechanics as a plain sweep-and-reverse, with the killzone as an added conviction filter.

1. The sweep — July 5 clears the prior swing low at 63.6.
2. The killzone-timed reversal — July 6's strong reclaim candle is described as occurring within the 10–11am NY window, which is what earns this its own name instead of just being a generic sweep-and-reverse.
3. Entry — on the July 8 pullback hold (64.7), stop below the sweep low, targeting continuation toward 66.0+.

Liquidity Void Fill

A thin, fast-moving stretch of chart (minimal candle overlap) is expected to get revisited and traded through quickly — not to act as a bounce zone.

1. The void forms — July 5's fast, thin candle leaves a stretch (roughly 99.9–101.8) with almost no two-way trading.
2. The return — July 7–9 pulls back down into the void.
3. The fill — July 9 trades through the void quickly (one candle), and price resumes upward on July 10 — a fill, not a reversal bounce.

Tier 3 — Conceptual / Discretionary (6 strategies)

Three full-cycle models from Lesson 6, given individual walkthroughs here since they're distinct enough not to compress into one table:

Market Maker Buy Model (MMBM)

The full Power of Three cycle (accumulation → manipulation → distribution) mapped specifically to a bullish bias — no single candle triggers it, the phases have to be read in sequence.

1. Accumulation (July 1–5) — a tight 49.6–50.2 range.
2. Manipulation (July 6–7) — a sweep below the range to 48.8, then reversal.
3. Distribution (July 8 onward) — reclaims the range and expands well beyond it.

Venom Model

A liquidity run paired with an FVG entry — deliberately looser than the 2022 Model, since it doesn't require a clean CHoCH before the entry.

1. The liquidity run — July 5 dips below a minor prior low, but there's no decisive CHoCH like the 2022 Model requires — just a run and a fast reversal.
2. The FVG — the July 5→6→7 sequence leaves a gap between 34.6 and 35.0.
3. Entry — July 8 taps the FVG zone (low 34.9) and holds, without the structural confirmation Tier 1 strategies require.

Smart Money Reversal (SMR)

The loosest label in the compendium — a sweep followed by any structure shift, with no confluence requirement at all.

1. The sweep — July 5 clears a minor prior low.
2. The shift — July 6 closes back above the prior lower high. That's the entire definition satisfied — no order block, no FVG, no killzone required.

Weekly Profile

Mapping the current week's trading against the prior week's high/low/close — bias comes from which extreme gets taken out first.

1. Prior week's profile — June 29–July 3 sets the reference: high 46.2, low 44.7.
2. New week sweeps the low — July 7 trades below 44.7.
3. Reclaim and continuation — July 8 reverses back up; July 9 breaks the prior week's high (46.2) — the week traded through both of the prior week's extremes, the clearest possible weekly-profile read.
4. Entry — on the July 8 reclaim, stop below the sweep low, target the prior week's high and beyond.

Quarterly Theory Reversal

Splitting any range into four equal quarters and timing a reversal to a quarter boundary — the least testable entry in this compendium, since "which quarter this is" is itself a judgment call before the reversal judgment even starts.

1. Q1–Q3 (June 15–25) — a full up-down-up cycle within the range.
2. Q4 begins (June 26) — price is declining into the final quarter.
3. The reversal — June 30's strong candle reverses right near the Q4 boundary, the setup this strategy is named for.

Power of Three Daily Bias itself — using the Lesson 5 AMD cycle to form a daily lean — already has a full chart-walkthrough there; it sets bias only, Lessons 1–4 provide the actual entry trigger.

The Full Compendium