The short answer
This page gives you a free Smart Money Concepts PDF that summarises the whole ICT method on one sheet, and every term on it links back to a full standalone guide on this site for the depth. It is a study aid, not a trading system, and I built it to be the index I wished I had when I was learning the vocabulary.
The cheat sheet covers the core ideas in the order you actually use them, from the top-down market structure read down to the order block entry. Smart Money Concepts is the framework of trader Michael Huddleston, known as The Inner Circle Trader, and it is a labelled reading of a chart rather than a peer-validated system.
I am honest about that framing on the sheet itself, because a method sold as certainty sets you up to lose money. The part with real evidence is the clustering of orders at obvious levels, documented in Carol Osler's research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the rest is doctrine you should test yourself.
Smart Money Concepts cheat sheet
The full ICT method on one page
Market structure, liquidity, order blocks, fair value gaps, and the top-down setup sequence, with the honest framing built in.
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A study reference, not financial advice.
What the PDF contains
The cheat sheet is organised the way the method actually flows, top-down, so you can read it from the macro layer to the entry without jumping around. Each block names the concept, gives the one-line definition an ICT trader would use, and points to the full page for the mechanics.
I kept the sheet to the concepts that matter for the core setup, deliberately leaving out the dozens of lesser labels that crowd most ICT pages. A short vocabulary list is more useful than a long one, because the method is built on a handful of ideas used well.
The sheet also carries the honesty notes, so you do not have to read the full site to know which parts are documented and which are doctrine. That separation is the single most useful thing on it.
The core concepts, summarised
These are the ideas I put on the cheat sheet, and each one links to its own full guide. Read them in roughly this order, because each builds on the one before.
Market structure is the foundation, the sequence of swing highs and lows that defines the trend, and the market structure trading page owns it with the Dow Theory lineage.
Break of structure and CHoCH are how structure confirms or reverses, covered on the BOS and CHoCH page, which is where most of the method's signals live.
Liquidity, the buy-side and sell-side pools of resting stops, is the fuel the method trades around, and the BSL and SSL page maps where those pools form.
Order blocks are the entry zones, and there is a definitional order blocks explained page plus a practical order block trading strategy page for the full procedure.
Fair value gaps and the broader liquidity void and imbalance family are the inefficiencies price comes back to rebalance, with the fair value gap page owning the three-candle gap itself.
The top-down read ties it together, with the ICT macro layer above and the daily bias layer below, and the SMC trading strategy page showing how the pieces stack into one setup.
How to use the cheat sheet
I use a cheat sheet as a reference, not a playbook, and the right way to use this one is to learn the vocabulary first and the setups second. Print it, keep it next to the chart, and reach for it when a term slips your mind rather than reading it front to back.
The sheet is also a map of the site. Each concept on it is a hyperlink in the digital version, and the printed version lists the page names, so you can go from the one-line summary to the full guide the moment a concept needs more than a reminder.
I would resist the urge to trade straight off the sheet. The definitions are correct but compressed, and the edge in this method lives in the confluence and the context the full pages explain, not in the one-liners.
The honest framing on the sheet
I gave the cheat sheet a section dedicated to what is proven and what is doctrine, because that distinction is the most valuable thing a beginner can take from the ICT space. The clustering of orders at obvious levels is documented, and the rest is interpretive.
The documented anchor is Carol Osler's research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which found that stop-loss and take-profit orders cluster at round numbers and prior swing points and that triggering them produces the sharp moves the method calls sweeps and displacements. That is the real engine under the vocabulary.
What is not proven is any specific win rate for the ICT setups. The confident percentages floating around the trading web trace to unsourced claims, so the sheet deliberately carries no win-rate number, and the only honest way to size the edge is to test the method yourself.
Where to start if you are new
If the whole framework is new, the cheat sheet works best alongside the Smart Money Concepts hub, which lays out the method as a course. Begin with market structure, then liquidity, then the order block entry, in that order.
The single biggest mistake beginners make is jumping to the entry patterns before the structure and the liquidity are clear. The entries only pay inside a correct structural read, so the sheet puts structure and liquidity first for a reason.
I recommend reading one full page a day alongside the sheet rather than bingeing the lot. The method compounds when each concept settles before the next one is added, and a week of paced reading beats a single rushed session.
