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Smart Money Concepts (SMC) Indicators

Built-in indicators that mark swing structure, breaks of structure (BOS), changes of character (CHoCH), equal highs and lows, fair value gaps and liquidity sweeps directly on your candles. Every one of them is available on the Free plan.


What the SMC Toolkit Is

Smart Money Concepts reads a chart through structure, imbalance and liquidity. ChartingLens ships those reads as native indicators, with no script to paste: Market Structure Pro, Fair Value Gap (FVG) Pro and Liquidity Sweep Pro, plus four level tools that pair with them. All draw on the price pane and update as new bars print. For the concepts themselves, read the Smart Money Concepts guide; for the full catalog, see the 70+ built-in technical indicators.


How to Add an SMC Indicator

From the Indicators menu

1. Open Indicators

Click Indicators in the top toolbar (icon only on a phone).

2. Find the tool

Open the Price Action tab (Market Structure Pro, FVG Pro, Liquidity Sweep Pro and the S/R and Fibonacci zone tools), or use the Search box: type "Market Structure", "FVG" or "Liquidity".

3. Set it up

A settings dialog opens first. Keep the defaults or change them, then click Add Indicator.

4. Manage it

The legend row at the top-left has the eye (hide), gear (settings) and trash (remove). Star a tool in the list to keep it in Favorites.


Market Structure Pro

A swing counts once it has Swing Length bars (7 by default) on each side, so each label lands on the swing candle a few bars after the turn.

Other settings: BOS/CHoCH Line Style (Solid, Dashed or Dotted), Label Cooldown (10 bars by default), label sizes and a show/hide toggle for each element. Break of Structure vs Change of Character explains the two break types.


Fair Value Gap (FVG) Pro

A bullish gap forms when a candle's low sits above the high of the candle two bars earlier; a bearish gap is the mirror image. Only gaps taller than Min FVG Size (0.5 × ATR by default) are kept.

FVG Pro uses the same gap detector as the Fair Value Gaps course in Learn, so the lessons and the indicator agree. The fair value gaps trading guide covers how to trade them.


Liquidity Sweep Pro

Liquidity Sweep Pro flags the candle a sweep leaves behind: a wick of at least Min Wick Size (1.25 × ATR), a close at least Min Rejection (0.5 × ATR) back from the wick's extreme, and a wick more than 1.5 times the opposite one.

The wick is measured against ATR, not against a specific prior high or low, so read sweeps next to Market Structure Pro's swing labels and EQH/EQL lines to see which liquidity was taken. More in the liquidity sweeps guide.


Zones and Levels to Pair With


What About Order Blocks?

The Indicators menu has no dedicated Order Blocks indicator. Market Structure Pro marks the breaks of structure that order blocks are defined around (see the order blocks trading guide), and when you ask the AI Chat to analyze a symbol, its read includes recent unmitigated bullish and bearish order blocks and unfilled fair value gaps, so you can ask whether a stop sits at one.


SMC in the AI Chat, Backtests and Learn

Quick Actions

Quick Actions, above the chat input, has an Indicators tab with Smart Money prompts such as "Show Market Structure on the chart" and "Show me Fair Value Gaps on the chart". On Free those rows carry a Premium badge; the indicators stay free in the Indicators menu.

SMC Fair Value Gap Retest backtest

This preset uses gaps left by an impulse candle whose body exceeds 1.5 times the 20-bar average range. After a candle closes inside the gap it enters at the next open, with the stop beyond the far edge (plus 10% of the gap's height) and a 2:1 target, long or short. Type "Backtest SMC Fair Value Gap retest strategy" in the AI Chat to run it for 1 AI credit on any plan. See the AI Strategy Backtester.

Strategy alerts

On Premium and Pro, set the alert Condition to Strategy and pick SMC Fair Value Gap Retest, from 1 Minute to Weekly. Our servers check it every 5 minutes, so it fires with ChartingLens closed. The BOS, CHoCH, FVG and sweep markers have no alerts of their own. Limits are on the price alerts page.

Fair Value Gaps course

Right sidebar, Learn, Strategies: 5 lessons (about 20 minutes) drawn live on a real chart, ending with an "Add FVG Pro to my charts" button. Graded Practice on examples is Premium.

Charting, not execution

These tools mark setups on your chart. ChartingLens does not place orders; you trade with your own broker.


Common SMC Workflows


Free vs Premium vs Pro

FeatureFree ($0)Premium ($14.99/mo)Pro ($29.99/mo)
Market Structure Pro, FVG Pro, Liquidity Sweep ProIncludedIncludedIncluded
Master S/R Zones, Fractal Zones Pro, Smart Fibonacci Zones, Volume-Based Supply & Demand ZonesIncludedIncludedIncluded
Indicators per chart3UnlimitedUnlimited
Fair Value Gaps course lessonsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Practice on examples (graded replays)-IncludedIncluded
SMC Fair Value Gap Retest backtest1 AI credit (1 a day)1 AI credit (20 a day)Unlimited AI credits
SMC Fair Value Gap Retest strategy alert-Included (within 20 alerts)Included (unlimited alerts)
Smart Money prompts in Quick Actions-IncludedIncluded

Frequently Asked Questions

Does ChartingLens have Smart Money Concepts indicators?

Yes. Market Structure Pro labels swings (HH, HL, LH, LL), breaks of structure (BOS), changes of character (CHoCH) and equal highs and lows (EQH, EQL). Fair Value Gap (FVG) Pro draws three-candle imbalances with a midline, and Liquidity Sweep Pro flags long-wick rejection candles. All three are in the Indicators menu.

Are the SMC indicators free?

Yes, none of them is Premium. A Free account holds 3 indicators per chart, enough for Market Structure Pro, FVG Pro and Liquidity Sweep Pro together. Premium and Pro remove the cap.

Is there an order block indicator?

Not in the Indicators menu. Market Structure Pro marks the breaks of structure that order blocks are defined around, and the AI Chat's symbol analysis reports recent unmitigated bullish and bearish order blocks.

How does Market Structure Pro tell a BOS from a CHoCH?

Both fire when a candle closes through the last confirmed swing high or low. A break with the current structure is labelled BOS. A break against it, or before a trend has formed, is labelled CHoCH.

When does FVG Pro remove a gap?

By default, the first time price trades back into it by wick or close. The Delete FVG When setting can switch that to Close Only, Wick Only or Never, and Max FVG Boxes Shown (20 by default) caps how many open gaps stay on the chart.

Can I backtest or set alerts on an SMC setup?

Yes, for fair value gap retests. Type "Backtest SMC Fair Value Gap retest strategy" in the AI Chat to run the preset for 1 AI credit on any plan. On Premium and Pro it can also be a strategy alert that our servers check every 5 minutes. BOS, CHoCH and sweep markers have no alerts of their own.

Put structure on your charts

Every SMC indicator on this page works on the Free plan. Start with 3 indicators per chart, or go unlimited with Premium.

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