ICT / Smart Money

Displacement

A strong, body-driven candle that breaks structure — the signal that institutions moved size.

See it in use

Synthetic · 1h

Bar 70 / 70

speed:

Phase 8 — Target

8 / 8

Move runs to opposing liquidity. Five confluences aligned: HTF bias + sweep + displacement + FVG + MSS.

How it's used correctly

Demand displacement before trusting any FVG, OB, or breaker. Without displacement, the candles might be auction noise.

Calling any large candle displacement. Real displacement has a body ≥ ~1.5× recent average bodies and breaks the prior swing decisively.

A 3-candle imbalance the market often revisits — and the test of whether you understand smart-money flow.

Three layers is a setup. Five is A+. One is a suggestion. Most traders die in the gap between.