--- title: 'I Understood Smart Money' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=T3BDIFWr3h0' video_id: 'T3BDIFWr3h0' date: 2026-07-15 duration_sec: 514 --- # I Understood Smart Money > Source: [I Understood Smart Money](https://youtube.com/watch?v=T3BDIFWr3h0) ## Summary The video explores the Smart Money concept in trading, discussing its validity, the controversy surrounding it, and the importance of profitability over dogma. The speaker shares personal experience and critiques both blind followers and haters, emphasizing that Smart Money is a methodology describing major market participants' behavior. ### Key Points - **Internet Attention to Smart Money** [00:02] — Almost no one on the internet pays proper attention to Smart Money; most traders have only heard about it without deep understanding. - **Three Types of Traders** [00:28] — There are profitable traders who use Smart Money, those who hate it, and those who mystify it. The speaker advises avoiding both extremes. - **Definition of Smart Money** [01:55] — Smart Money is the capital of major market participants (banks, hedge funds, whales) who have access to analytics and can influence price. - **Smart Money as a Method** [03:03] — Smart Money is a method, not a strategy; it describes market behavior and is based on the idea of a major participant and the crowd. - **Everyone Trades Smart Money Unknowingly** [04:04] — Both a Smart Money trader and a pattern trader can profit from the same situation; knowing why price moves is secondary to knowing how. - **Personal Trading Journey** [05:04] — The speaker traded for 2 years without Smart Money, developing personal patterns, but later adopted Smart Money terminology for accuracy. - **Shakeout Phenomenon** [05:56] — The speaker's 'shakeout' pattern is described more accurately in Smart Money as the same market process, just named differently. - **Profitability as Main Criterion** [06:38] — The main criterion for any concept is profitability through backtesting and practice, not popularity or internet noise. - **Scams and Hype Around Smart Money** [06:55] — Many make money from the concept itself by selling courses, while others expose it to sell their own training; both exploit human ignorance. ### Conclusion Smart Money is a legitimate methodology describing market behavior, but it is surrounded by hype and scams. The key is to focus on profitability and practice rather than getting caught in debates. ## Transcript attention paid to this phenomenon on the internet? I'll give you a spoiler: no. And here's why. Almost everyone who is interested in trading in one way or another has probably heard about the wall. There are a huge number of profitable traders who have only heard about this methodology, but have not delved into it. There are also a huge number of traders who know this methodology and make money in the market. And then there is the third side - those who do not live from the market, but either hate smartmania or mystify it. What does a trader who hates SmartMoney with all his heart and wants to be heard online look like? He says: “This smartmania of yours was invented for idiots, nothing works there.” And its creator is a fraudster who has never traded himself. It's a curious fact, but in my experience, a profitable trader is a person who is outside of these debates. He doesn't give a damn about these endless disputes. He chose the golden mean. He can either use SmartMoney and earn money from the market, or not use it, but assume that SmartMoney is one of the methodologies, having learned which one can live from the market. If everything is clear with the touchy ones, then with those who mystify smartmania it is even worse. They remind me of the human threshold, because of which people are constantly looking for the main reason in something. In the Middle Ages, they tried to obtain the Philosopher's Stone, and now the Grail is in trading. This process is, in general, endless, as long as humanity exists and lives. As for me, the one and the other are two extremes that are best avoided if you don’t want to be an idiot. So what is SmartMoney really Smart Money is the capital of major market participants. Five, [ __ ], five and a half thousand, [ __ ], leave the [ __ ] greens to the Komsomol, [ __ ]. They have access to Komsomol, [ __ ]. They have access to analytics and can influence the price. Hello, analytics and can influence the price. Hello, [ __ ]. Hello, [ __ ]. Often much [ __ ]. Hello, [ __ ]. Often much earlier than ordinary traders know where the price will go. I press the [ __ ] button to buy, [ __ ]. And I have a glass, [ __ ], history, [ __ ], it shows a minute ago . . They don't trade in emotions. It's not my [ __ ] problem. This is not an internet problem, [ __ ] it. They accumulate positions through proper movement and enter only where the crowd is movement and enter only where the crowd is already completely beaten down. His [ __ ] mouth, [ __ ] [ __ ], this Binance. [music] Method, method and more method. Many people mistakenly equate smartmanagement with strategy. Method is broader than strategy. using the appropriate terminology, rather than providing specific entry points or specific potentials for a particular trader. In my opinion, smartmoney is one of the working methods that describes the behavior of market participants in relevant and precise language. Smartma is based on the idea of ​​the , which can be represented as an institution, a bank, a hedge fund, any whale, and a crowd that follows the large participant. SmartMoney's entire methodology is based on the analysis of a major participant who manipulates prices, exchanges orders, captures liquidity, and so on. Can smaone be refuted? Very unlikely. The major player hypothesis posed by this concept can be replaced by anything you like. But no matter what you call it, the market will not stop moving the way it does. And that's the funny thing. We all trade Smartmane, but we don’t even know it. Both Vasya and Francis can trade the same situation, but one will explain it through smartmane, and the other through a mystical pattern consisting of a combination of green candles. And both will be right if they know how the price moves. But knowing why the price moves is generally of secondary importance, especially for a trader. He may know how, but he doesn't know why. It's not that important anymore. A pack of marshmallows and a banana-flavored nicotine vape pod are enough for a trader pack of marshmallows and a banana-flavored nicotine vape pod are enough for a trader all the blessings of earthly life, and that’s all. And to know why this is, I'll tell you using my own example. I traded for 2 years without any of your SmartMoney and, in general, came to my own understanding of the market in a roundabout way. I had my own patterns there, and I explained how and in what way coins move, and everything in that spirit. established terminology and apply what was already thought up for you long ago, without reinventing the wheel. The fact that I traded purely on my own and formed my own view of things. Is this good or bad? And in answering this question, I don’t think that this question can be answered definitively. On the one hand, I don't regret it. On the other hand, when you're a beginner, it's probably better not to waste time reinventing the wheel and to use existing concepts. And I'm not saying that this concept is specifically SmartMoney. About a year and a half ago, or maybe a little later, I started practicing a trading situation, which was called Shakey on the foreign Internet, in Russian it was called shaking out. This term is not from smartmoney, and I would even suggest that it was invented even before smartmoney, in the era when the Internet had just appeared, or in general, when you could only learn about trading mostly from some books that have now become classics. So, the same market phenomenon that I called shaking out was described in Smartman, and it was done more accurately. But the essence is the same: these are the same market processes, just named differently. It turns out that the main criterion for whether any concept is worth studying is its profitability. It doesn't matter how many supporters there are or how people feel about it on the internet. The main thing is backtesting and profitability over time, or, more simply put, practice. There is so much [ __ ], noise and idiots around Smartmane. From the very beginning of the video, I talked about the scale of this concept. And it’s not surprising that they’re trying to make money from this. make money without using the concept, but make money from the concept. A newbie goes on YouTube, watches some forecaster or trader, then goes to him on Telegram, and he sells training on Smartman. Everything, mystery, mysticism, the Grail. I need to buy this course for $1,000 and I'll become a market genius. This is exactly the kind of stuff that cosmetics for a girl. They can hide their shortcomings to such an extent and case, this is a trader who does not practice smart trading, but creates the image of a smart trader. So some idiot will turn to a production studio, they will package his training for him competently, they will write in the course program Rejection Block, Orderflow, FVG, GSPD, TNT, Swag. Orderflow, FVG, GSPD, TNT, Swag. And to a newbie it will seem like, well, wow, And to a newbie it will seem like, well, wow, this is something in American. this is something in American. And, well, he will, naturally, buy the course. But no less funny are the bloggers and traders who expose, yes, expose SmartManyone, saying that it’s all from Lukao. And then they say: “It’s better if you come to me for training, I have my own unique vision of I have my own unique vision of the market.” that those, that these, in fact, make money on human ignorance, on human trust, on human weakness. And this process, believe me, will exist as long as man exists. y