News Trading with SMC
How to trade around high-impact news events using SMC. Pre-news positioning, post-news FVG strategy, and which events create the best institutional setups.
How to trade around high-impact news events using SMC. Pre-news positioning, post-news FVG strategy, and which events create the best institutional setups.
How to trade around high-impact news events using SMC. Pre-news positioning, post-news FVG strategy, and which events create the best institutional setups.
How to trade around high-impact news events using SMC. Pre-news positioning, post-news FVG strategy, and which events create the best institutional setups.
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Answer these questions to check your understanding.
1. The best time to enter around news is:
2. Post-news FVGs are reliable because:
The SMC approach to news is mostly about staying out of its way — and using the liquidity it creates. High-impact releases inject volatility that can override structure entirely.
During CPI, FOMC, and NFP, spreads widen, fills slip, and price can blow through order blocks and gaps on raw momentum. Stops get hit on spikes that have nothing to do with the chart. The honest move is to be flat.
News spikes are giant liquidity sweeps. After the dust settles, the initial knee-jerk move is often faded as institutions position for the real direction. Wait for structure to re-form — a clear sweep then CHoCH — before considering an entry.
Mark high-impact events before the session and flatten or reduce ahead of them. Knowing when news drops is risk management; trading the clean structure that forms afterwards is the opportunity.
Key takeaway
Be flat into high-impact news — it overrides structure. Treat the spike as a liquidity sweep and only re-engage once a clean sweep-and-CHoCH structure re-forms.
NFP drops and price whipsaws violently, blowing through nearby zones — you're flat, by design. After 15–30 minutes the dust settles: price has swept a major high (a giant liquidity sweep) and now prints a clean change of character down. Only now do you engage, shorting the return to the fair value gap with structure back in control.
Generally no — releases like CPI, FOMC, and NFP widen spreads and override structure, hitting stops on spikes unrelated to the chart. The disciplined approach is to be flat into the event.
Treat the news spike as a large liquidity sweep. Wait for price to re-form clean structure — a sweep followed by a change of character — before considering an entry in the new direction.
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