Indicator Description (SMC Confluence Indicator)
SMC Confluence Indicator is a Smart Money Concepts (SMC/ICT) chart tool for cTrader that highlights three key structures in real time:
- Fair Value Gaps (FVG): bullish/bearish imbalances with size filtering and optional mitigation removal.
- Break of Structure (BOS): bullish/bearish market structure breaks from confirmed swing highs/lows.
- Liquidity Levels: buy-side/sell-side liquidity (BSL/SSL), equal highs/lows (EQH/EQL), and sweep behavior.
The indicator is built for clean visual confluence, helping traders map likely sweep targets, imbalance zones, and structure shifts on any timeframe.
cBot Description (SMC Confluence Bot)
SMC Confluence Bot is the automated trading version of the SMC strategy for cTrader. It executes buy/sell market orders using BOS + FVG + liquidity logic with configurable risk controls.
Core capabilities:
- Automated BOS detection from confirmed swing structure.
- 3 entry models:
- BOS Only (fast, frequent entries)
- BOS + FVG Confluence (filtered entries)
- BOS + Retrace Into FVG (stricter, cleaner setups)
- Built-in presets for XAUUSD M5 and XAUUSD M1.
- Risk management: lot size, SL/TP, max open positions, optional close-opposite-on-signal, and one-trade-per-bar protection.
Designed for systematic SMC execution with flexible tuning for aggressive or conservative styles.
Features Breakdown:
Fair Value Gap (FVG) Detected on every new 5m bar using the classic 3-candle pattern. Candle ① high is stored. Candle ③ low is checked — if low[③] > high[①], a bullish FVG rectangle is drawn between those two price levels. The gap persists on the chart until price trades back through the 50% midpoint (mitigation), at which point the rectangle auto-removes. Bearish FVG is the mirror. The minimum pip size filter (FVGMinPips) kills the sub-noise gaps that XAUUSD produces constantly during Asia sessions.
Break of Structure (BOS) The indicator identifies swing highs and lows using a configurable lookback (SwingLookback=10). Because cTrader doesn't have look-ahead, a swing high at bar i is only confirmed after N bars close to the right of it — this avoids false pivots. When a candle closes above a confirmed swing high, a dashed green horizontal ray is drawn from that bar rightward, labeled "BOS ▲". The swept swing high is simultaneously promoted from the liquidity pool to a "broken" state and removed from active liquidity.
Liquidity Levels Every confirmed swing high = Sell-Side Liquidity (SSL, gold dashed line) where short sellers placed stops. Every swing low = Buy-Side Liquidity (BSL, blue dashed line) where long positions placed stops. When two swing highs fall within EqualTolerance pips of each other, both are flagged as Equal Highs (EQH, purple) — these are the highest-probability sweep targets in ICT because both sides of the market have orders stacked there. When price sweeps through any level, a lightning marker is drawn and the level is removed.
How to use it alongside the cBot Attach SMC_Confluence_Indicator to your chart (any timeframe), then run FCR_Combined_Bot as the execution layer. The indicator tells you visually where the structure is. When the cBot fires a BOS/FVG entry, you can instantly see whether it aligns with an active liquidity draw — that confluence is the highest-probability setup the strategy produces.
