About
A training centre for smart money concepts
ForexLens is a free place to learn smart money concepts by playing. You read a simulated chart, mark what you think is there, and then the Lens shows what the concept says is there. No real money is involved at any point.
What it is
The training centre has 34 games in four tiers. The Core tier is 6 floors and 20 games. Each floor covers one part of the smart money way of reading a chart: Structure, Liquidity, Imbalance, Value, Time, and The Model, where the parts are put together into one sequence.
Three more tiers follow as you level up. Advanced (5 games) adds context: several timeframes, internal and external liquidity, failed order blocks and session profiles. Elite (5 games) is about execution and honest statistics. Institutional (4 games) shows how the market works behind the concepts: dealers, the 4pm fix and what the evidence does and does not support.
A game is a few short rounds. Each round shows a chart with one thing planted in it, such as a swing, a pool of resting stops or a three-candle gap, and asks you to find or judge it. Grading is exact, because the chart was built around the answer. A run takes three to six minutes.
- Floors: the six stages of the Core tier, opened in order as you level up.
- Tiers: Core, then Advanced, Elite and Institutional, which open at higher levels.
- The Desk: free practice on a simulated chart with play money, with the Lens available when you want it.
- The Briefing: your starting point each day, with objectives and the blind spots worth another look.
The first game on the Structure floor is open without an account: play it now. A free account saves your progress and opens the rest.
The Lens
Every chart can be viewed through the Lens: an overlay that reveals what smart money concepts claim is there. Resting liquidity above highs and below lows, imbalances, the dealing range.
The order matters. You find it first, then the Lens reveals it. Being shown an answer teaches little. Committing to a reading and then seeing where it differs is how the eye gets trained. What the Lens caught and you missed goes on your list of blind spots, and the games bring those back until they stop being missed.
Who makes it
ForexLens is made by TradingFuse and built in Toronto, Canada. It is free. We do not sell signals, courses or managed accounts here, we take no referral or affiliate money, and we do not link to brokers.
Contact: support@forexlens.com or forexlens.com.
What we will not pretend
- Education only. Nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell anything.
- Simulated prices. Every chart is generated by the site and scripted to teach one idea. None of it is market data, live or historical.
- Play money. Balances on the Desk are not real and can be reset at any time.
- A way of describing charts. Smart money concepts are widely used and also contested. Much of the vocabulary comes from a body of teaching known as ICT. The ideas are a language for what price did. They are not a proven account of who moved it or why, and we say "the idea is" and "SMC traders read this as" for that reason.
- No edge promised. Scoring well here does not mean you will make money. We promise no win rate and no income. Most retail traders lose money.
- Process, not profit. Games grade whether you read the chart and followed your plan, never whether a simulated trade happened to win.
Your data
An account needs an email address, a password, a first name and a country. Everything else you tell us is optional, and what we learn from your play is shown back to you on your trader profile. Training emails are sent only if you tick the box, and you can delete your account yourself. The privacy page lists every field. The terms are short.
Sister sites
ForexLens is one of several free education sites from TradingFuse. If smart money concepts are not where you should start, one of these may be.
- forexfitness.com: forex basics as games. Pips, lots, leverage and sessions, before any concepts.
- daytradegym.com: day trading practice on simulated stocks, graded on discipline.
- howdoesforexwork.com: a plain explainer of how the currency market works.
- whatareforexsignals.com: what trading signals are and how to judge the claims made for them.
- howdostockswork.com: how shares and stock markets work.
- howdooptionswork.com: how options work, from first principles.
- howdofutureswork.com: how futures contracts work.
- howdoescryptowork.com: how crypto assets and their markets work.
How the content is made
Every concept on ForexLens is first written as a rule in code: what counts as a swing, when a level is broken, where a gap begins and ends. The games generate charts around those rules, a set of detectors checks that the planted answer is the only defensible one, and charts that fail are discarded. The written guides are then written from the rules, not the other way round, which is why a guide and its game never disagree.
The worked examples in the guides are generated by the same engine. Every price in them is simulated. We never show a real market chart with zones drawn on afterwards, because hindsight makes any method look good.
Editorial policy
- No invented numbers. We do not publish win rates, success statistics or income figures, because we do not have reliable ones and neither does anyone else we could cite.
- Sources for facts. Where a guide states a fact about the market, such as how the 4pm London fix is calculated or what regulators found, it comes from a primary source: the regulator, the central bank or the benchmark administrator.
- Names. We name no trading educators, brokers or funded-account firms, favourably or otherwise.
- Independence. No advertising, no affiliate links, no sponsored content. Nothing on this site earns more if you trade.
- Both sides. Every concept guide ends with an honest note on what is and is not established, and the evidence page sets out the criticisms in full.
- Corrections. If something here is wrong, tell us at support@forexlens.com or forexlens.com and we will fix it and change the review date on the page.
Who writes it
Igor Komolov founded ForexLens in 2016 and has built every version of it since. He is a software engineer and operator in Toronto with more than 20 years in technology, and he has spent over a decade of that building for traders: a first trading platform in 2014 and 2015, then ForexLens, where he wrote the expert advisors, the AI market analysis, the 3D charting, the member portals and the teaching tools, working day to day with a team of traders across forex, crypto and commodities.
That is why this site teaches the way it does. Igor has seen smart money concepts explained a hundred ways and tested the rules in code, where "it depends" is not allowed: a swing either meets the rule or it does not. Every game here is built on that standard. The charts are generated with a known answer, the grading is exact, and the claims stop where the evidence stops.
Beyond ForexLens he publishes TradingFuse, CornUSD, How Does Forex Work and its sister explainer sites, and writes about AI, real-time market visualisation and software engineering at igorkomolov.com. He is an engineer, not a registered adviser, and nothing here is financial advice.
ForexLens is written and built by Igor Komolov and a small team in Toronto, Canada. It is operated by Canadian Intelligence Agency Inc., which also makes Forex Fitness and Day Trade Gym under the TradingFuse name. We build trading education software. We are not registered advisers or dealers, we do not manage money, and we do not present anyone's trading record as a reason to believe us. Judge the material by whether the rules are exact and the claims are modest.