Mike Valtos – Advanced Market Structure Workshop is a six-session trading education program focused on advanced market structure analysis, Smart Money Concepts (SMC), Volume Profile, and Order Flow. The workshop is designed to help traders understand how different market analysis methodologies work individually and how they can be combined to identify potential trading opportunities.
Across two weeks, Mike Valtos covers institutional-style market structure, liquidity, order blocks, fair value gaps, volume distribution, footprint charts, and trade execution. The final sessions bring these concepts together through a confluence-based approach, live chart analysis, trade management examples, and interactive Q&A.
Across two weeks, Mike Valtos covers institutional-style market structure, liquidity, order blocks, fair value gaps, volume distribution, footprint charts, and trade execution. The final sessions bring these concepts together through a confluence-based approach, live chart analysis, trade management examples, and interactive Q&A.
Course Overview
Advanced Market Structure Workshop
- Smart Money Concepts (SMC): Market structure, liquidity, order blocks, and fair value gaps.
- Volume Profile: Point of Control, value areas, volume nodes, and market profile interpretation.
- Order Flow Analysis: Footprint charts, delta, absorption, initiative activity, and auction behavior.
What You Will Learn
Week 1 – Master Each Component
Session 1 – Market Structure Fundamentals
- How institutional traders view and interpret market structure.
- The difference between Break of Structure (BOS) and Change of Character (CHoCH).
- Internal versus external liquidity and the areas where stop orders may accumulate.
- Understanding order blocks and fair value gaps.
- Common mistakes retail traders make when interpreting market structure.
Session 2 – Smart Money Concepts Deep Dive
- Liquidity engineering: How liquidity areas and stop orders feature in institutional trading analysis.
- Premium and Discount Zones: Understanding price positioning within a trading range.
- Order Block Selection: Evaluating which order blocks may be relevant and which can be disregarded.
- Imbalances and Fair Value Gaps: Examining price inefficiencies in greater detail.
- SMC Entry Model: Understanding the entry framework presented in the workshop.
Session 3 – Volume Profile Essentials
Volume Profile
- Point of Control (POC): Understanding the price level with the highest traded volume within a profile.
- Value Area High (VAH) and Value Area Low (VAL): Using value area boundaries when evaluating potential entries.
- Volume Nodes and Volume Voids: Identifying areas of concentrated activity and lower-volume regions.
- Profile Shapes: Interpreting different volume profile structures and their possible implications for market direction.
- Institutional Volume Profile Analysis: Exploring how volume distribution can be incorporated into institutional-style market analysis.
Week 2 – Integration and Real-World Execution
Session 4 – Order Flow Analysis
- Reading footprint charts, including delta, volume, and cumulative delta (CD).
- Absorption vs. Initiative: Understanding the difference between absorbed trading activity and aggressive participation.
- Failed Auctions: Recognizing auction behavior that may provide information about subsequent price movement.
- Real-Time POC Movement: Monitoring changes in the Point of Control as market activity develops.
- Volume Tipping Points (VTPs): Identifying volume-related signals that may indicate significant market shifts.
Session 5 – The Confluence Method
3-Step Confluence System
- A detailed explanation of the three-step confluence framework.
- Signal hierarchy and determining which signals take priority.
- Entry timing when all three methodologies align.
- Identifying situations where missing confluence signals make it preferable to skip a trade.
- Stop placement using the three analytical approaches.
- Developing profit targets based on market structure, Volume Profile, and Order Flow.
Session 6 – Live Trading Application and Q&A
- Real-time chart markup using SMC, Volume Profile, and Order Flow.
- Identifying high-quality trading setups as they develop.
- Managing trades from entry through exit.
- Case studies examining winning trades, losing trades, and the differences between them.
- Understanding what to do when confluence signals conflict.
- Open Q&A, including opportunities to submit charts for live analysis.
The Three-Part Analytical Framework
Smart Money Concepts
Volume Profile
Order Flow
Who Is This Workshop For?
- Traders who want to develop a deeper understanding of market structure.
- Technical traders interested in Smart Money Concepts.
- Traders learning to interpret Volume Profile and market auction behavior.
- Participants interested in footprint charts and Order Flow analysis.
- Traders who want to combine multiple analytical methodologies.
- Learners seeking practical chart analysis, trade management examples, and case studies.
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