About

Author & editor

Qaiser Iqbal

Qaiser Iqbal has 7 years of experience in the forex market. He writes the lessons on SMC Gold.

SMC Gold is a free education website about Smart Money Concepts (SMC) and ICT methods, studied on gold (XAUUSD) charts.

What we publish

  • Lessons: plain-English explanations of market structure, liquidity, order blocks and fair value gaps.
  • Historical examples: past gold charts used to show how a concept played out. These are teaching material, not signals.
  • Market outlooks: our reading of the current gold chart, clearly dated. An outlook is an opinion, not advice.

Editorial standards

  • Every chart shows the instrument, timeframe, date and time zone it was taken from.
  • We mark levels on the candle where they formed, so you can check them yourself.
  • We show examples that failed as well as ones that worked.
  • We never promise profits or quote win rates we cannot prove.

Corrections

If you find a mistake in an article or a chart, please tell us through the Contact page and choose Correction. When we fix an article, we change its Updated date.