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title: 'The Most Correct Way to Find IDM in Smart Money'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=gvly5SCnuCo'
video_id: 'gvly5SCnuCo'
date: 2026-07-30
duration_sec: 1009
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# The Most Correct Way to Find IDM in Smart Money

> Source: [The Most Correct Way to Find IDM in Smart Money](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gvly5SCnuCo)

## Summary

This video teaches traders how to correctly identify IDM (Institutional Demand/Supply) in Smart Money trading, emphasizing that the commonly taught methods on YouTube lead to losses. The key is to find the first correct retracement after a break of structure (BOS) and use it as a dynamic support/resistance level. The presenter provides a step-by-step rule for transferring IDM as price moves and demonstrates entry techniques on lower timeframes, resulting in multiple profitable trades.

### Key Points

- **Introduction and problem with standard Smart Money** [00:00] — The speaker introduces the topic of motivation (IDM) and claims that misunderstanding IDM causes losses. Standard Smart Money strategies taught on Russian YouTube result in frequent stops.
- **Definition of IDM** [01:30] — IDM is the first correct retracement after a break of structure (BOS). It is the closest correct retracement to the price, not any subsequent one.
- **Finding IDM on an upward move** [02:28] — When we have an upward movement and a BOS (fixing bodies above), we look for the first correct retracement. That becomes the IDM.
- **Transferring IDM** [03:19] — If price breaks a higher high, we transfer the IDM to the next first correct retracement. We keep moving it until IDM itself is broken.
- **IDM transfer rule summary** [04:12] — The rule: break a high → look for first correct retracement → place IDM there. Break higher → transfer IDM. Continue until IDM is taken.
- **Example of IDM reactions** [05:54] — As price moves, the speaker shows how price reacts at IDM levels, confirming their validity. They mark upper and lower points to track IDM.
- **Entry logic from IDM on lower timeframe** [08:32] — When price is far from IDM, switch to a 1-minute chart. Look for order blocks and chokes. Place pending orders under the closing of a choke candle, targeting the 15-minute IDM.
- **Short trade example** [12:22] — After IDM gets swept, price reverses. The speaker finds a short setup using the same IDM principle, resulting in a 1:5 risk-reward trade.
- **Managing the trade and second entry** [14:30] — The speaker partially fixed at 1R, then got stopped out but re-entered based on the 15-minute IDM. The second entry also worked, totaling 11R profit.

### Conclusion

Correctly identifying IDM as the first correct retracement and using it as a dynamic level can significantly improve trading results. The speaker demonstrates two profitable trades (long and short) using this method, yielding 11R in one session.

## Transcript

Hello Today we will deal with motivation or in another way ID, because a misunderstanding of working with this tool does not allow you to trade profits in this video, we will learn how to correctly find industment and understand how to use it in your trading If you bear with me At least five minutes
I I assure you that in Trading you will look at a completely different motivation. For us, this is an area, more precisely, a specific
point that prompts traders to buy or sell. let's look
at this chart and think about how profitable such a strategy will be if everyone buys or sells after the breakdown of the nearest maximum or minimum, look here literally every
time we get a stop immediately here stop we break a stop here we break through in this area We break that we are constantly constantly breaking through these zones And why will everyone here buy, in fact,
there will simply be very, very beautiful order blocks here, or if you remember, we talked about the blog order video that not every block order that you see on the chart will be working And valid for us Even if it is not mitigated and looks as correct as possible
That is why When you trade using the standard Smart Money strategy that you are usually taught in Russian-language YouTube, you get big losses But how Our chart will look like if We
remove all unnecessary and leave only ours ID that constantly forces traders to open deliberately unprofitable positions, in fact, idm is the first correct rollback which is closest
to the price. That is, if we are on this high, the first correct rollback will be This point is not This is not any next, namely This is the first correct rollback, this particular
movement makes traders open positions for the continuation of the movement, that is, traders expect something like this kind of movement. However, what is happening in the market actually just demolishes them
with the top, it seems that then the price reverses in the opposite direction. after which, perhaps they open the position again, they are closed even more that the price continues to further decline, and in order for us to correctly determine what ideas are and how they found them on the chart, let's look at an example further,
we have a current upward movement and let's try to find idm a little higher So what we see We see the breakdown of our boss fixing the bodies above what we must do initially
we must find our ID with you If we are on this movement yes let's delete it for now This is superfluous If we see that we are in this zone, we confirmed the Boss. Our
task is to find where our first correct rollback in this movement will be, it will come in handy here and then we will watch what happens after our reaction if the price rises again
higher and higher we must do the following with you, that is let's stop here for now, we should see if we have a new correct rollback in this case when this High is broken.
Quite right, we have it and we will move it further further, we must wait for either the breakdown of this High or the breakdown of this edin If nevertheless, we make our way higher, we again
move the ID along the ladder and we will move it until the next happens until the breakdown of our idm happens, let's set it for now, that is, technically If we break through our idm
in this case, we will have to put with you, the upper structural point, this is what allows us to understand what areas of interest we have on the chart to determine everything in this structure
for a given High to a given Loy and make trading decisions and you will understand What setups can be taken from the ID
Go further, the idm transfer rule is as simple as possible, we break through Hai if we are with you Here we are looking for the first correct rollback if we have the first correct
rollback in this movement So we put idm here, we break through higher we transfer idm and transfer data 1 until we take this movement and before we proceed with you to the search on the chart I remind
that we have a telegram channel in which we constantly do reviews on the currencies that I trade, we also add a large number of tasks that will train you in understanding the smartmoney concept.
we assume that we will have a choke in this zone and look for further on this candle, the Boss is confirmed for us, therefore we have the right to put our point on the first correct pullback from the video about the first correct pullback You can understand that this
candle is the last candle is not a correct rollback, therefore idm is a little lower We go further, in this case we have a movement higher, since we moved to the next candle, we transfer our
correct rollback and what we see here We see how the price receives a reaction from the ID, respectively, we must put on top also technically, we got the first correct rollback at the bottom and we immediately take it, we make a suite and the price moves higher, what
happens next. On this green candle, we get confirmation from our boss and look for the first correct rollback. Where will it go down below the first we don’t have a correct rollback at this stage, so for now we temporarily transfer idem here and look What will happen next
if we break down from the current points, we remain in the previous place if we move 6 create a new correct rollback, we will transfer it and put the lower point down let's go and see what will happen So we go with you higher higher higher and here we have the first
correct rollback when we break through this black candle with this candle. Accordingly, what we see with you We see again the reaction to our idm and further movement higher This means that we should mark the top point with you and leave the bottom one, since our idm now does not
equal our bottom point, we look What will happen next after we have confirmed this green candle, we mark again our Eden, it will be with us at this place that we see further we see again with you the reaction of our em so we put the Upper
Lower points with you and observe what will happen next after that we get a reaction up But since this reaction was one knee and temporarily move a little to the right and
look What will happen next because we we make our way lower, respectively, we remove the previous idea and move the top point higher further, we look at what happens to us Next, it happens to us with the Relight
of our Chok, then we confirm our Check with you and at the moment when we confirm with you about We must find our ID of our idea this is the first correct rollback from our low point.
So, if we have the first correct rollback, respectively, we get a reaction with you, put the bottom point and Go further, we see a choke, we see a choke and confirmation of this check on this green candle if we have there is a confirmation of Chok We must find
we find idem is on this candle now we will analyze how to transfer idm If we do not get a reaction to it, we see that we have Peresvet Peresvet and only this green
candle confirms our choke if we confirmed the choke we have to start looking for Eddie we look further because we got an upward movement We didn’t get to the ID we look What will happen to the given given High
we break the first correct rollback is here we move the ID Go further we break the given High idm we will be here remind the first correct rollback from this
Hai, it is here. We go further, we break through Dan Hai and only here we transfer the idm with you. The last candle cannot be an ID, so we leave it here and get
a reaction to it again. what happens with you and me further further we are punching again our Boss do we have here itm we have if we
go here with you Quite right There is therefore we must put a bottom point and we move on here again we look for the reaction to our ID And then we break through this High and therefore
we must transfer our ID our idm on the nose bridge to the first correct rollback transferred So we will transfer it further and further, respectively, here we again see with
you will react and continue to move up if we see a reaction, we will leave the top point and observe what will happen in this range, and before we
analyze the entry points from ID on the lower timeframe, I remind you that there is a contest on our channel to the video how to trade liquidity You need to leave a meaningful comment under this video and when we get two and a half thousand likes under the video, we will raffle off free access
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calmly in his understanding, he will take it and start making profit So in order for us to understand In which directions we can trade from our ID, we need to figure it out with you in general, the logic of trading to the ID, firstly If we see that the price is very, very far from
our Eden, yes, that is, technically, we did Loy, but we did this movement with one knee and in fact, in fact, our topic is a magnet for our Price accordingly, if a certain ascending structure looms in our movement, we have in this case already
in the internal structure of idm yes, that is, it will technically be 15m1 and our first correct order is a block after these If we see a reaction to this movement, we must switch
to a minute timeframe when we switch to a lower timeframe, we look at the following what happens directly with the price on the lower timeframe For us, this is one minute, we see
that We ethnically closed below our block order for one minute and in fact we have a very check -very far that can tell us about the further movement to Long only Peresvet at the cost of our
movement So we are temporarily pulling back for us, there is no entry point, we seem to go higher and here we are making the next movement, we are taking the Loy of the previous candle After that we
immediately make a choke with one candle and this green candle will be a crowd for us what it tells us it tells us that we have the right to put a pending order under the closing
of this candle And the target for these entry points will be directly we look at our idm for 15 minutes What happens next technically what we did we didn’t enter like all
the people who are in a hurry to enter a deal Or they fly out a deal put a three-meter stop there Our task is to quickly enter to do with a minimum stop in order to exit very quickly what happens next, the price takes our order and starts moving higher
in just a few minutes, the price closes our deal in profit Excellent, how it looks for 15 minutes 15 minutes literally 30 minutes and our deal is closed in this case, we actually traded
against the trend, but we traded directly for the purpose of closing our ID if we closed our idm what will happen next technically we swept it with you However, since we
are moving very impulsively up for us, this is not enough But when our price sticks again Our Movement That is, in fact, we did a small slip and thus began to
stomp here for a very long time and made the largest possible sweep, after which we closed inside, you and I must again switch to the junior one and already look for a deal directly in short from our
ID, that is, we are in a downward movement, so we must find short position from our ID, you and I are moving to a younger one, we need to figure out that here you and I
actually have the first correct rollback, we mark it We have the first correct block order after our Eden, we also mark it That is, in fact, he we have a really low location, but we will look very often if we have a block order so low We have to
stick it look what happens Next, we get a new idm we moved it, we have a choke here so we have the right to short from this zone we look What happens next,
we go to our order blog, but I don’t like that we came there with one knee I would always like to wait in this case for Peresvet, or it was necessary For me for of my entry, overwrite our block order, we look at the continuation of the movement, we got it with you, and if
we got it, we put a limit for our candle for me, this is a pretty good setup for the entry 1 to 5, why not, although technically we generally have a target on our Lore here is
874 pretty good look What happens Next we take the position the price returns
the price shows further movement when the price closes under our Loya in this zone We need to always fix some part of the position we don’t need a large one just
one R is of course here we have a rather small the zone is only 238 But usually I always look at least a little bit at the nature of the price movement, I really don’t like that we create trend
liquidity above, this sometimes speaks of manipulation, we look at what happens to the price further and further, we see that we have come and closed us by a stop However, how we closed us by a stop closed us by
a stop having collected all the current trend liquidity and pouring even the candle liquidity that is here at this stage, we remember that we stuck our idm on the 15-minute chart,
stuck the previous candle which we you have the right to enter the position again for this transaction, we place a limit order under our bracket and see what happens Next, of course, we
already have a risk profit a little less than 738 because the candle is much larger returns gives us the opportunity if we
missed to re-enter and re-enter even better when we see that we have a small body of the candle and a large candle there is a possibility that the pending order will work a little higher so we look What is happening,
that is, you and I should have partially fixed at least once and picks us up perfectly Total for one small session, we got
two three pretty good deals one deal brought five the second deal brought and if we fixed one and the loss Minus one on the result of 0 and in this case 7r in
fact 5 + 7 -1 turned out 11r in one morning and everyone just spice up the understanding of the correct ID That is, in fact, you and I langed to idm and shorted after removing our everything today