Market structure (BOS and CHoCH)
Also: BOS, break of structure, CHoCH, change of character, MSB
A trend is a sequence of swing highs and lows. A break of structure (BOS) takes out the last swing in the trend's direction. A change of character (CHoCH) takes out a swing against it and is the first sign the trend may turn.
How Sentinel uses it
Two SMC engines: Market Structure Break and Change of Character. Their scores are shown on the signal's page.
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Other terms
- Smart Money Concepts (SMC)
- Order block
- Fair value gap
- Liquidity sweep
- Liquidity pool
- Inducement
- Breaker block
- Premium and discount zones
- Stop hunt
- Pump and dump pattern
- RSI and Stochastic RSI
- Exponential moving average (EMA)
- MACD
- Bollinger Bands
- Average true range (ATR)
- VWAP
- On-balance volume (OBV)
- Hidden Markov model regime
- Kalman filter
- Ricci flow
- Evidence Score