NT8 SMC Suite · 5 indicators · Exposed plots for BloodHound & BlackBird

Most structure indicators mark any breakout as BOS. This one checks the whole swing sequence first.

Name: SMC Bundle for NinjaTrader 8
Brand: Nordman Indicators
Price: 760 EUR
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Five Smart Money Concepts indicators for NinjaTrader 8. BOS and CHoCH validated against the full swing sequence, liquidity sweeps that separate a raid from a real break, order blocks and fair value gaps with fixed definitions — plus a combined engine that only marks imbalances tied to a confirmed structure event.

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SMC Bundle · NinjaTrader 8 LIVE

IMG-01 · 1600×900Hero chart — all five overlays on one chart. Screenshot, terminal-neutral.alt: “SMC indicators for NinjaTrader 8 — five overlays on one chart”

Calculated on closed bars — markers stay where they were plotted
Full swing-sequence validation, not simple breakout detection
Exposed plots for Strategy Builder, BloodHound and BlackBird

Why most structure indicators disagree with the chart

Your indicator printed BOS. The market never had a structure to break.

Break of Structure and Change of Character are not shapes. They are sequences. A bullish BOS requires a higher low, then a higher high, then a break of that higher high — in that order, with the preceding structure intact. Most tools skip the sequence check and mark any local breakout. On a trending chart the difference is invisible. In a range it produces three failures every session.

SIT01

Every local high becomes a “BOS”

On the chart

Price chops sideways in a forty-tick range. Your structure indicator prints BOS, then BOS, then BOS again in the opposite direction, then CHoCH. Four structural events in twenty minutes on a market that has gone nowhere.

Technical cause

The tool treats an isolated breakout as a structural event. It never asks what came before. A real bullish BOS requires the sequence HL → HH → break HH — with an allowable deviation of HL → HH → HL → break HH. Without that check, any candle poking above any prior candle qualifies. You are not looking at market structure. You are looking at a high-water mark detector.

IMG-02 · 1600×800Any-breakout BOS versus sequence-validated BOS, same chart, side by side. Schematic SVG.

SIT02

The CHoCH that arrives after the reversal is over

On the chart

The move reverses. Twenty bars later, once the new direction is obvious to everyone, your indicator finally prints CHoCH — at a price that is nowhere near where the character actually changed.

Technical cause

The tool has one swing tier. It treats every pivot as equal, so it either fires on minor pullbacks (noise) or waits for a pivot large enough to be undeniable (late). Real structure has two resolutions: major structural pivots and minor pullbacks inside them. Without a strong-versus-weak swing distinction, you are forced to pick one sensitivity and live with the failure mode it produces.

IMG-03 · 1600×800Strong swing versus weak swing on the same chart, side by side. Schematic SVG.

SIT03

A textbook fair value gap in the middle of nowhere

On the chart

Your FVG tool marks eleven gaps in a session. Nine of them formed during ordinary two-sided trade and mean nothing. The two that mattered formed inside the impulse that broke structure — and they look exactly the same as the other nine.

Technical cause

Gap detection with no structural condition attached. An imbalance is a fact about candle geometry; whether it matters depends entirely on what the market was doing when it formed. A gap left by the move that broke a structural level is a different object from a gap left by drift, and no amount of minimum-size filtering separates them, because the difference is not size — it is context.

All three failures are the same failure: a structural tool that does not check structure. The fix is not a better-looking chart. It is a rule that names the required swing sequence and refuses to fire without it.

The complete SMC toolset for NinjaTrader 8

Five indicators. One chain: frame → filter → origin → residue → confluence.

The bundle is ordered the way a structural chart is read, not alphabetically. Market Structure defines what direction is in control. Liquidity Sweeps decide whether a break was real or a raid on resting orders. Order Blocks mark where the move came from. Fair Value Gaps mark what it left behind. The combined structure-and-imbalance engine ties the last two to the first, and only draws zones that qualify. Each tool is a standalone product; together they cover the methodology end to end.

Market Structure (BOS & CHoCH)

Full swing-sequence validation, strong and weak swings, threshold confirmation.

Liquidity Sweeps

Wick-Based, Break-and-Retest and Combined detection, 4 mitigation modes.

Order Block

Fixed range type, minimum size in ticks, threshold mitigation, 3 alerts.

Fair Value Gap

Imbalance detection, Shrink display, mitigation and expiry logic.

Structure + FVG

Imbalances found only in relation to a confirmed BOS or CHoCH.

NinjaTrader Market Structure (BOS & CHoCH) Indicator

Individual licence €175

What it is

A market-structure engine that tracks Break of Structure and Change of Character using the complete swing sequence, not isolated breakouts. A structural event is registered only when the preceding bullish or bearish context is intact.

How it works

The indicator builds swing points with a configurable Swing Strength — the number of bars that must sit on each side of a fractal for it to count. It then classifies each swing (HH, LH, EH, LL, HL, EL) and tests candidate breaks against a fixed sequence table. Confirmation uses either candle Close (conservative) or High/Low (faster). An optional Break Confirmation Threshold requires price to travel a stated distance past the level — in ticks, points or percentage — before the event is validated.

What it displays

Bullish and bearish BOS markers, and bullish and bearish CHoCH markers, each independently toggleable — some workflows watch continuation only, others watch character change only.
Strong swings and weak swings as two separate tiers, displayable together or independently. Strong swings are the major structural pivots; weak swings are the minor pullbacks inside them.
Swing point labels on the chart, switchable off when the indicator runs inside a larger toolset.
Configurable pop-up, sound and email alerts per event type.
Threshold distance applied to both BOS and CHoCH confirmation.

How it is used in analysis

The strong/weak split is what makes this tool usable at one setting instead of forcing a sensitivity compromise. Run structure reads off strong swings and use weak swings for the internal detail of a leg. Because the sequence is enforced, a chop range that would produce four “BOS” markers on a naive tool produces none here — the absence of markers is itself information.

Technical limitations

Swing confirmation is inherently delayed; a swing cannot exist until Swing Strength bars have closed on both sides, so the earliest possible BOS confirmation always comes after that. Strict sequence validation means fewer events than a naive breakout detector — if you are used to a marker every few bars, this chart will look quiet, and that is the intended trade-off. In a sustained range the engine may register no structural events at all for long stretches. Threshold filtering reduces noise further at the cost of later confirmation.

The sequence table the engine enforces
Event	Classic sequence	Allowable deviation
Bullish BOS	`HL → HH → break HH ↑`	`HL → HH → HL → break HH ↑`
Bearish BOS	`LH → LL → break LL ↓`	`LH → LL → LH → break LL ↓`
Bullish CHoCH	`LL → LH → break LH ↑`	`LL → LH → HL/LL → break LH ↑`
Bearish CHoCH	`HH → HL → break HL ↓`	`HH → HL → LH/HH → break HL ↓`

Exposed plots: Weak/Strong Long and Short conditions; Weak and Strong swing outputs HH, LH, EH, LL, HL, EL; Strong Leg High and Low pivots; Weak and Strong Bullish/Bearish BOS; Weak and Strong Bullish/Bearish CHoCH.

NinjaTrader Liquidity Sweeps Indicator

Individual licence €175

What it is

A detection tool for confirmed liquidity sweeps — moves that push beyond a swing high or low, fail to gain acceptance, and return into the prior range.

How it works

The indicator tracks confirmed swing highs and lows, then evaluates each violation against a chosen detection mode:

Wick-Based — fast rejections where price trades beyond the level and returns within the same bar structure.
Break-and-Retest — price breaks the level, fails to hold and returns back through it inside a configurable Retest Max Bars window.
Combined — both behaviours under one detection logic.

A Minimum Sweep Distance filter, in ticks or percentage, discards minor spikes. Swing Expiration limits how many bars may pass between the swing forming and the sweep, so stale levels are not used.

What it displays

Sweep zones with separate colours for sell-side sweeps above swing highs, buy-side sweeps below swing lows, and expired zones.
Swing points with labels and a configurable maximum displayed count.
Markers and alerts for two distinct events: a confirmed sweep, and the first valid interaction with the sweep zone.
Mitigation state per zone in one of four modes: Touch (High/Low), Full Fill (High/Low), Body Close Inside (Close), or % Fill.
Skip Immediate Mitigation (Bars) — ignores zone interactions in the first N bars after the sweep.
Sweep Zone Expiration for unmitigated zones.

How it is used in analysis

This is the tool that answers the question the structure engine deliberately does not: was the level taken and held, or taken and rejected. Run it on the same chart as Market Structure and the two readings separate cleanly — a sweep zone with no subsequent BOS is a raid; a BOS with no sweep zone underneath it is a straightforward structural break.

Technical limitations

Sweep confirmation carries the same swing-confirmation delay as the structure engine. Minimum Sweep Distance set too low produces noise on tick and range charts; set too high, it discards shallow sweeps entirely. The indicator describes what has already happened at a level and makes no statement about what follows.

Exposed plots: Bullish/Bearish Sweep High and Low, Zone First Touch, Sweep Mitigated, Sweep Expired, plus swing outputs HH, LH, EH, LL, HL, EL.

NinjaTrader Order Block Indicator

Individual licence €200

What it is

A detection and lifecycle-management tool for Order Blocks — the candle ranges preceding displacement, treated in Smart Money methodology as zones shaped by large-participant activity.

How it works

The indicator fixes the definition that hand-drawing leaves open. You choose the range type (High–Low, Open–Close, or combined), the minimum block size in ticks or percentage, and the minimum number of bars required to form a valid block. Only ranges satisfying all three conditions are drawn. Each block then carries a state machine: active → entered → mitigated → expired.

What it displays

Bullish and bearish blocks with separate colours for active, mitigated and expired states.
A configurable threshold line inside the block, set as a percentage of block size, with optional mitigation at threshold touch.
Display filters: active only, inactive only, or all; plus a maximum displayed block count.
Max OB Duration in bars or minutes, after which a block expires.
Three distinct event alerts: block formation, price entry into the block, and mitigation.

How it is used in analysis

Because range rule, minimum size and mitigation condition are all explicit parameters, the same chart produces the same blocks on every reload — and the same blocks in a backtest as in live. The threshold parameter is the practically useful one: it defines partial mitigation numerically instead of leaving “close enough” to the eye.

Technical limitations

Order Block validity is a definition, not a measurement. Practitioners define the origin candle differently, and the indicator faithfully reproduces whichever definition you configure — including a poor one. On low-volatility instruments a minimum size in ticks may filter out nearly every block; on high-volatility instruments the same value may filter almost nothing. The parameter set has to be tuned per instrument.

Exposed plots: OrderBlockCreated, FillPoint, MitigatedPoint.

NinjaTrader Fair Value Gap (FVG) Indicator

Individual licence €200

What it is

A detection tool for price imbalances — formations where price moved through a range without two-sided trade, leaving a gap in the auction.

How it works

The indicator scans for imbalance between candle ranges and validates each detected gap against filters: allowed direction (both, bullish only, bearish only), minimum gap size in ticks, points or percentage, minimum bar span, and maximum lifetime. Mitigation logic defines when the gap counts as filled — full fill, partial touch, or threshold-based — with the price reference set to High/Low or Close.

What it displays

Bullish and bearish gap zones with separate colours for active, mitigated and expired states.
Two display modes: Default, where the zone keeps its original boundaries, and Shrink, where the zone visually contracts as price fills it.
Display limit for the number of recent gaps kept on the chart.
Alerts for gap formation, price entry into the zone, and mitigation.

How it is used in analysis

A gap marks where the market moved fast enough that one side of the book was skipped. Shrink mode is the practically useful one intraday: it shows the remaining unfilled portion in real time rather than the historical footprint, which is what matters while price is trading back into the zone. Paired with Order Blocks you get both halves of the origin read — where the move started, and what it left behind.

Technical limitations

Gap detection is bar-construction dependent. The same market data on a 1-minute chart, a 500-tick chart and a Renko chart produces different gaps, because the candle boundaries that define the imbalance differ. Minimum gap size must be re-tuned when you change instrument or bar type. This tool detects every qualifying gap regardless of market context — if you want only the gaps tied to a structural event, that is what indicator 5 does.

Exposed plots: Bullish/Bearish FVG Detected, Upper and Lower Boundaries, FVG Touched, FVG Mitigated, FVG Expired.

NinjaTrader BOS & CHoCH and FVG Indicator

Individual licence €200

What it is

A conditional engine that ties imbalance detection to structural events. It does not look for every gap. It looks for gaps that exist in relation to a confirmed Break of Structure or Change of Character.

How it works

The indicator runs the same strict swing-sequence validation as indicator 1, then opens a search for imbalance under one of three modes — After BOS/CHoCH, BOS/CHoCH Impulse, or Combined. A Max Bars To Find FVG parameter bounds the search window, so a gap forming forty bars after a break is not retroactively attributed to it. All the standard imbalance filters still apply: gap size mode in ticks, points or percentage, minimum gap size, minimum bars, maximum duration in bars or minutes, mitigation mode (touch, full fill, or threshold percentage), and Standard or Shrink display.

What it displays

BOS and CHoCH markers with the same strict sequence validation as indicator 1.
Strong and weak swing points.
Only those bullish and bearish gaps that satisfy the selected structural relationship — everything else is not drawn at all.
The three market phases the engine models, visible in sequence on the chart: structure break → imbalance creation → price retracement into the zone.

How it is used in analysis

This is the filtered view. Where indicator 4 answers “where are all the imbalances”, this one answers “which imbalances belong to the last structural event”. On a session that produced eleven gaps, the conditional engine will typically draw two or three. Most traders run indicator 4 on an analysis chart and this one on the chart they actually watch.

Technical limitations

By design it draws far fewer zones, and on quiet sessions it may draw none — if your process needs something on screen at all times, this is the wrong tool. Its structure logic overlaps with indicator 1 and its gap logic overlaps with indicator 4; running all three on one chart duplicates markers unless you disable the overlapping layers. See FAQ Q2 for how the three are intended to be used together. Max Bars To Find FVG is a judgement call that must be tuned per instrument and bar type — set too wide, it re-introduces the noise it exists to remove.

The three search modes
Mode	What it searches
After BOS/CHoCH	Gaps forming after a confirmed structural event
BOS/CHoCH Impulse	Gaps inside the impulse that produced the structural event itself
Combined	Both at once

Exposed plots: Directional Long and Short conditions; Weak/Strong swing outputs HH, LH, EH, LL, HL, EL; leg pivot values; bullish and bearish FVG detection and boundary levels; FVG mitigation and expiration; BOS and CHoCH outputs.

Five products. One rule set. Every marker on your chart traces back to a named swing sequence and a numeric threshold you can read, change, backtest and hand to a strategy builder.

Interactive verification mode

Watch the sequence check do the work

Three scenarios on the same intraday chart. Every zone and marker comes from a stated numeric condition, and the interesting part is often what does not appear.

FrameMarket Structure
FilterLiquidity Sweeps
OriginOrder Block
ResidueFair Value Gap
ConfluenceStructure + FVG

Scenario 1

The BOS that did not happen

IMG-05 · 1Range, strong-swing high, one tick above it — no BOS marker anywhere
The breakout that isn’t one. Price cleared the high. The sequence behind it was never bullish, so nothing fires.
IMG-05 · 2Higher low labelled, then higher high labelled
Structure builds. HL, then HH. The engine now has a context to break.
IMG-05 · 3Bullish BOS marker with threshold distance visible
BOS confirmed. HL → HH → break HH, close-confirmed, past the threshold.

ContextEvery structure indicator will mark frame 1. Price made a new high — on a naive tool that is a break of structure, and you would have read it as continuation into a range that had none.

What the bundle doesThe Market Structure indicator classifies each swing before it tests anything. In frame 1 there is no preceding higher low, so the sequence HL → HH → break HH is not satisfied and no event is registered. In frame 3 it is satisfied, the confirmation price type is Close rather than the intrabar extreme, and the Break Confirmation Threshold has been cleared in ticks. Only then does the marker print.

The value of this block is the blank chart in frame 1. That is the failure mode you are paying to remove.

Scenario 2

Sweep first, character change second

IMG-06 · 1Long lower wick below a labelled swing low, buy-side sweep zone
The low is taken. Price traded below, failed to hold, closed back inside. Sweep zone marked.
IMG-06 · 2Rally, last lower high labelled
The level that matters. Bearish structure is still intact until that lower high goes.
IMG-06 · 3Bullish CHoCH marker, sweep zone still visible below
Character changes. LL → LH → break LH. Sweep below, CHoCH above — two independent conditions, both stated.

ContextOn a bare chart, frames 1 and 3 are the same story told twice, and you cannot tell in real time whether the low breaking down was the start of a move or the end of one.

What the bundle doesLiquidity Sweeps evaluates the violation of the swing low against your Minimum Sweep Distance and your chosen Mitigation Mode, and marks a confirmed buy-side sweep only when price fails to hold acceptance below the level. Market Structure separately asks whether directional control has changed, and requires the sequence LL → LH → break LH with a close beyond the level.

The software does not merge these into one conclusion. It shows two conditions, in the order they occurred, and leaves the read to you.

Scenario 3

The gap that qualified, and the nine that did not

IMG-07 · 1Standalone FVG alone — eleven gap zones across the session
Every imbalance. Indicator 4 marks all of them. Geometrically correct, contextually flat.
IMG-07 · 2Bullish BOS marker, shaded search window labelled with Max Bars To Find FVG
The window opens. A structural event starts a bounded search.
IMG-07 · 3One gap drawn inside the window, nothing else
One qualifies. The imbalance produced by the impulse that broke structure.
IMG-07 · 4Price retraces into the zone, band shrinks as it fills
Phase three. Break → imbalance → retracement, all three visible in sequence.

ContextEleven zones on a chart is not analysis, it is wallpaper. The problem is not that the gaps are wrong — they are all real imbalances. The problem is that nothing on the chart distinguishes the two that formed inside a structural impulse from the nine that formed during ordinary drift.

What the bundle doesThe BOS & CHoCH and FVG indicator only opens an imbalance search in relation to a confirmed structural event, under one of three modes — after the event, inside the impulse that produced it, or both. Max Bars To Find FVG bounds the window so a gap forming much later is not attributed to a break it had nothing to do with.

Frames 1 and 3 are the same market. The difference is a condition, not a filter on size.

Five indicators, one chart, and a structure engine that stays silent when the structure is not there. Request access and check the sequence logic against your own charts.

Building trading software since 2018

“A break of structure with no structure behind it is just a candle closing higher”

Most structure indicators are high-water-mark detectors wearing a Smart Money label.

I'm Alexei Kuntysh, founder of Nordman Algorithms. I've been building software for traders since 2008, and in 2018 we brought that work under Nordman Algorithms — designing custom indicators, cloud trade-copying systems and automation. Across those years we've delivered more than 3,000 projects for private traders and investment funds.

My path into algorithmic trading started in fintech and large-scale e-commerce operations, where I ran development teams of 10 to 50 people. Once I moved into financial markets, I quickly saw the core problem retail traders face: they're analyzing an empty chart. Geometric shapes, trendlines drawn off candle wicks, and repainting oscillators create an illusion of analysis — while the market obeys only one law: supply, demand and the volume of real money.

We built Nordman Indicators to do more than draw a pretty picture. Our goal is to give you reliable infrastructure that captures tick data from the exchange, structures it, and renders the clean physics of the market auction on your screen. Every product calculates on closed bars, follows NinjaTrader 8 mechanics strictly, and never repaints. We take our reputation seriously and build software you can rely on in live trading.

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They calculate on closed bars and do not repaint.

A marker plotted on historical data sits on the same bar where the condition was met in real time. We do not use retroactive redrawing. This is not a marketing claim — it is the reason the tools can be backtested at all.

They expose their data.

Every indicator publishes analytical plot outputs. The swing classifications, structural events, zones and boundaries on your chart are readable by NinjaTrader Strategy Builder, by BloodHound and BlackBird from SharkIndicators, and by your own C# code. Nothing is locked inside the drawing layer.

We are not selling a method. Smart Money Concepts is public and free. We are selling the engine that enforces its definitions on your screen.

Bundle value structure

Invest in professional software once — use it forever

Standalone catalogue prices versus what each tool costs inside the bundle. The bundle price applies only when the full suite is purchased together.

Standalone catalogue price versus in-bundle price
#	Indicator	What it covers	Standalone	In bundle
01	NinjaTrader Order Block Indicator	Fixed range type, full/partial mitigation, threshold tuning, 3 event alerts	€200	€160
02	NinjaTrader Fair Value Gap (FVG) Indicator	Imbalance detection, Shrink display mode, mitigation and expiry logic	€200	€160
03	NinjaTrader BOS & CHoCH and FVG Indicator	Structure-conditional imbalance search, 3 detection modes, bounded search window	€200	€160
04	NinjaTrader Market Structure (BOS & CHoCH) Indicator	Full swing-sequence validation, strong/weak swings, threshold confirmation	€175	€140
05	NinjaTrader Liquidity Sweeps Indicator	Wick-Based, Break-and-Retest and Combined detection, 4 mitigation modes	€175	€140
	Total for all 5 indicators		€950	€760

Bonus 01 · included

Ready-made chart templates

A configuration file with all five indicators pre-arranged on one chart — colours tuned so the overlays coexist without turning the chart into noise, minimum sizes set for liquid index futures, swing strength and threshold values pre-set. Import in two clicks instead of spending an evening on parameters.

IMG-08 · 1600×900Chart template preview — five indicators pre-arranged on one chart.

~~€99~~included in the bundle

Bonus 02 · included

Exposed plots for no-code automation

Every indicator in the bundle publishes analytical plot outputs. Connect them directly to BloodHound or BlackBird (SharkIndicators), to NinjaTrader Strategy Builder, or to your own C# code. Build automated logic on swing classification, BOS and CHoCH events, sweep confirmation or block mitigation without writing detection code yourself.

IMG-09 · 1200×800Exposed plots data flow — indicator outputs into Strategy Builder, BloodHound and BlackBird. Schematic SVG.

~~€199~~included in the bundle

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Lifetime bundle

€760one-time

20% off the €950 catalog total · pay once, own it forever

Access: Lifetime license for all 5 bundle indicators
Updates: All future software updates included
Templates: Ready-made chart templates
Automation: Exposed plots for BloodHound and BlackBird
Licence scope: License for 1 working PC
Support: Priority technical support

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Honest terms and what this software does not do

This bundle will not make you profitable. It will stop your chart from claiming structure that was not there.

Straight talk. No indicator predicts price, and anyone selling you one is selling you a story. What these five tools do is narrower and more useful: they enforce the definitions Smart Money Concepts already specifies, so a structural event on your chart means the same thing today, next month and in your backtest.

✕Who this software is NOT for

Traders who want more markers, not fewer. This is the honest headline. A structure engine that validates the full swing sequence fires less often than one that marks any breakout — sometimes much less often. If a quiet chart reads to you as a broken indicator, this bundle will frustrate you. Close the tab. Do not spend €760 with us.
Swing traders on daily charts. If you hold for weeks and mark two levels a month by hand, you do not have a reproducibility problem, and five NT8 overlays will not give you one worth solving.
Traders looking for a mechanical SMC system in a box. These are analytical tools. They detect and display structural conditions. They do not decide, do not manage positions and do not produce a trade plan. If you want the decision layer built for you, that is a custom development project, not a product purchase — and we will quote it honestly.
Traders not on NinjaTrader 8. All five indicators here are NT8 products. Individual SMC tools exist in our catalogue for cTrader and MT5, but neither platform has the full set of five. Buy the individual tools that exist for your platform instead of this bundle.
Anyone who already owns the ICT Bundle. Three products overlap — Order Block, Fair Value Gap and Liquidity Sweeps. Buying both bundles means paying twice for those three. Talk to us first and we will price the difference rather than sell you a duplicate.

✓Who this software IS for

If you trade intraday on NinjaTrader 8 — index futures, gold, oil, currency contracts — and your analysis runs on market structure, this bundle removes the interpretation layer from that work.

It enforces the sequence — BOS and CHoCH register only when the preceding structure is intact.
It separates a raid from a break — sweep detection and structure detection are independent conditions on the same chart.
It ties imbalance to context — the conditional engine draws only the gaps that belong to a structural event.
It exposes every condition to a strategy builder if you later want to automate part of the process.

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One-time purchase, lifetime license

One-time purchase, lifetime license for all 5 indicators — with ready-made chart templates, Exposed Plots for no-code automation, and priority support from the team that built them.

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Technical support during setup

The software ships with video documentation. If you run into trouble importing chart templates or configuring display settings, our support specialists will help you resolve it. Support hours: Monday–Friday, 08:00–18:00 EEST.

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No repainting, by design

Every marker on your historical chart sits on the bar where the condition was met in real time. Signals and markers shown on the historical chart are identical to what the software flagged in real time. We don't use repainting algorithms.

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Technical questions from NT8 traders

Frequently asked questions

Do these indicators repaint?

No. All five indicators in the SMC Bundle calculate on completed bars. Once a marker, zone or level is plotted, it stays on the bar where the condition was met. There is no retroactive redrawing.

One clarification that is often mistaken for repainting: every swing-based tool here — the structure engine, the sweep detector and the conditional engine — requires a configurable number of bars on each side of a swing point before that swing is confirmed. That is confirmation delay, not repainting. The marker appears later than the bar it refers to, but it never moves once it appears.

Why does the bundle contain BOS and CHoCH twice, and FVG twice?

Because they are two different resolutions of the same concepts, and traders use both.

The standalone Market Structure (BOS & CHoCH) indicator and the standalone Fair Value Gap indicator are complete, unconditional engines. Structure marks every validated BOS and CHoCH. FVG marks every qualifying imbalance. Full parameter control, everything on the chart.

The BOS & CHoCH and FVG indicator is a conditional engine. It only searches for imbalance in relation to a confirmed structural event, under one of three modes — after the event, inside the impulse that caused it, or both — inside a bounded window set by Max Bars To Find FVG. On a session where the standalone tool marks eleven gaps, the conditional engine typically draws two or three.

The common workflow is the analysis chart running the standalone pair, and the working chart running the conditional engine. If you prefer a single chart, disable the overlapping layers on one of them — every component is independently toggleable.

We would rather explain this here than have you discover the overlap after purchase.

I already own the ICT Bundle. Should I buy this one?

Not without talking to us first. Three products appear in both bundles: Order Block, Fair Value Gap and Liquidity Sweeps. Buying both at full price means paying twice for those three.

What the SMC Bundle adds over the ICT Bundle is the strict structure layer — BOS and CHoCH with full swing-sequence validation and a strong/weak swing split — plus the conditional structure-and-imbalance engine. What the ICT Bundle adds over this one is the time layer: Kill Zones sessions and pivots, SMT Divergence across correlated instruments, and Market Structure Shift.

BUILD NOTE — REPLACE BEFORE PUBLISHING: insert the approved cross-grade figure here (Team Notes B.3, item 1).

Do I need Tick Replay enabled?

These five indicators analyse price structure, not order flow distribution inside the bar, so they do not depend on tick-level volume splitting the way a Footprint or Volume Profile tool does. Chart data quality still matters: your bar series must be built on complete historical data.

BUILD NOTE — REMOVE BEFORE PUBLISHING: confirm with development, same open item as ICT Team Notes B.3 item 1.

Can I use the SMC Bundle on Forex, or is it futures-only?

Yes, it works on Forex. These five indicators are built on price structure — swings, ranges, imbalances — not on exchange volume, so they calculate identically on futures, Forex, indices and any other instrument with a clean price series. This is the practical difference between this bundle and our Volume Trader Bundle, whose tools require real exchange volume and lose precision on decentralised markets.

One parameter caveat: minimum size filters are set in ticks or percentage, and the right value differs by instrument and by bar type. Expect to re-tune Minimum Gap Size, Minimum Sweep Distance, the OB minimum size and the BOS threshold when you switch instrument.

What is the difference between a strong swing and a weak swing?

A strong swing is a major structural pivot. A weak swing is a minor pullback inside a leg. Most structure indicators have only one tier, which forces a choice: set sensitivity high and get noise, or set it low and get structural events confirmed long after they mattered.

Having both tiers means you can read structure off strong swings while still seeing the internal detail of each leg, at one setting. Both tiers can be displayed together or independently, and both are published as separate exposed plots, so automated logic can reference them separately too.

How does integration with BloodHound and BlackBird work?

Every indicator in the bundle publishes exposed analytical plot outputs. Added inside the BloodHound or BlackBird strategy builder from SharkIndicators, those outputs can be referenced directly as conditions — strong and weak swing classifications (HH, LH, EH, LL, HL, EL), bullish and bearish BOS and CHoCH, leg pivots, sweep confirmation and mitigation, order block created and mitigated, FVG boundaries and mitigation — without writing C# detection code. The same outputs are available to NinjaTrader Strategy Builder and to your own custom code.

Five indicators on one chart — does it become unreadable?

It can, and that is why the chart templates are included rather than sold. The template ships with colour opacity, zone display limits and expiry settings pre-tuned so the overlays coexist. Each indicator also carries its own display controls: maximum displayed zones, expiry in bars or minutes, show-active-only filters, and independent toggles for swing labels, BOS and CHoCH.

In practice most traders run the structure engine plus two zone tools on the working chart, with display limits set to the last 3–5 zones per tool, and keep the rest on a second chart.

There is no trial. What happens after I request access?

You send the form. We reply by email to the address you gave us, confirm the bundle and the license terms, and arrange payment. Once payment clears you receive the indicator files, your license key and the chart templates.

This is a one-time purchase with a lifetime license for one working PC, including all future updates to the five indicators. There is no subscription and nothing recurring. If you have questions before committing — about instrument suitability, about the overlap with another bundle, about whether the strict structure logic fits your process — ask them in the form or by email first. We would rather answer them than process a refund.