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title: 'Breaker: Trade Entry with Smart Money'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=1EThCiIM5v4'
video_id: '1EThCiIM5v4'
date: 2026-08-04
duration_sec: 115
---

# Breaker: Trade Entry with Smart Money

> Source: [Breaker: Trade Entry with Smart Money](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1EThCiIM5v4)

## Summary

This video explains how to enter a trade using the 'breaker' concept in smart money trading, focusing on placing limit orders and setting stop-losses based on structural levels and imbalances.

### Key Points

- **Basic Entry: Limit Order at Breaker Start** [00:01] — The simplest way to enter is placing a limit order at the beginning of the breaker. Stop-loss can be aggressive or conservative depending on the situation.
- **Aggressive vs. Conservative Stop-Loss** [00:14] — Aggressive stop-loss is used only if the range minimum coincides with the impulse candle's minimum that broke the structural lower-high. Otherwise, a conservative stop-loss is preferred.
- **Breaker Lower Boundary and Imbalance** [00:28] — The lower boundary of the breaker is validated for placing a stop-loss behind it by a bullish imbalance, which can be balanced on the next candle, after which growth continues.
- **Entry at Full Fill Level** [00:57] — The full fill level, not yet confirmed imbalance, is used to open a long position, offering the best risk/reward ratio within a bullish setup, even with a conservative stop-loss.
- **Entry When Imbalance Not Fully Filled** [01:10] — Sometimes the inefficiency is not completely filled, leaving a gap that price gravitates towards. In that case, entry is made from the beginning of the breaker, which is considered the most optimal method.
- **Volume Profile Modification** [01:37] — A modification uses the volume profile on the range of inefficiency inside the breaker. The level with the least traded volume is likely to become a trigger, and a limit order can be placed there.

### Conclusion

The breaker serves as a key support zone, with imbalances providing secondary entry points for better price action and timing. Using volume profile can further refine entries.

## Transcript

breaker, you must understand how to enter a trade from it and set a stop-loss. The basic and easiest way to place a limit order at its beginning.  In this case, stop loss can be either aggressive or conservative depending on the
situation.  For example, I use an aggressive stop-loss only if the range minimum coincides with the minimum of the impulse candle that has broken through the structural lower-high.  Otherwise, I'll always go for the conservative soup-loz.  This is
inefficiency, which is a marker of active smart money buying and their focus on further delivering the price even higher while protecting the current range.  Thus, the lower boundary of the breaker is validated for placing a
stop-loss behind it by a bullish imbalance, which can be balanced on the very next candle, after which the growth will continue and a return to the breaker will not be expected.  This will be the second more accurate move from the breaker.   The
full fill level, not yet confirmed imbalance, is used to open a long position, allowing for the best risk/reward ratio within a bullish setup, even with a conservative stop loss.  But this does not
always happen.  And it happens that the inefficiency is not completely filled, but a gap remains, which the price will naturally gravitate towards.  Therefore, the entry into the transaction will be made from its beginning.  For me, this is the most
optimal method for entering a trade. The breaker is a landmark, a key support zone, and the imbalance within it is a secondary zone that is used for better entry, both in terms of price action and timing.  The next
input is a modification of the previous one and consists of using the volume profile on the range of inefficiency that has arisen inside the breaker. The level where the least volume was traded is highly likely to become the
trigger for the price.  We can place a limit order blank on it.