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: Recognizing when big players intentionally push prices toward retail stop-loss clusters to "shake out" smaller participants.

Mark, watching from Chicago, saw the drop and FOMO’d in (Fear Of Missing Out). He sold at the bottom of the drop, right before a small retracement. He was "late to the party."

Occurs when price continues a trend by breaking a previous higher high (in an uptrend) or lower low (in a downtrend). It confirms trend continuation.

In SMC, we do not use the word "reversal"; we use . A market trending upward has a specific structure: Higher Highs (HH) and Higher Lows (HL).

When institutions move the market aggressively, price often leaves "gaps" known as . These represent market inefficiencies where buyers or sellers were so dominant that price skipped levels.