A practical guide to ICT and Smart Money Concepts on Hanzo AI — using Kill Zones, order block entry, fair value gaps, and Wyckoff confluence for precise institutional-style trade setups.
ICT (Inner Circle Trader) and Smart Money Concepts describe how institutional traders operate: sweeping retail liquidity, filling orders in fair value gaps, and distributing from order blocks. Hanzo AI's engines are built around these concepts — Kill Zones map to ICT session windows, Sweep Wall detects liquidity sweeps, and Chart Analysis identifies order blocks and FVGs.
1. Order Blocks: institutional order placement zones where price reverses sharply. 2. Fair Value Gaps (FVGs): imbalance zones that act as magnets for price return. 3. Break of Structure (BOS) and Change of Character (CHoCH): the transition from ranging to trending or from one trend direction to another. 4. Liquidity: stop clusters above highs and below lows that institutions sweep before reversing.
ICT methodology assigns specific time windows to institutional activity. In Hanzo AI, the Kill Zone panel shows real-time session status, pair bias within each window, and countdown to the next high-activity window. Enter setups that form during kill zone windows for better fill quality.
Use AI Chart Analysis (ICT/SMC Scan tab) to identify order blocks on your chart. Check whether the block sits within the current kill zone window. Confirm with Volume Intelligence IIS above 65. Set entry at the order block mitigation zone with stop below (for long) or above (for short) the order block body.
The most powerful setups combine Wyckoff and ICT: a Wyckoff Spring (sweep of support) in the London kill zone with a Volume IIS spike constitutes a high-confluence entry where three independent frameworks agree simultaneously.
The AI Chart Analysis tool has a dedicated ICT/SMC Scan tab that identifies order blocks, FVGs, BOS/CHoCH, equal highs/lows, and premium/discount zones in any uploaded chart. The Liquidity Sweep Wall automates sweep detection in real time.
Kill Zones and Chart Analysis (ICT/SMC tab) require Pro plan or above. The Liquidity Sweep Wall requires Elite. Free users can try Chart Analysis with welcome credits.