The course
A free forex trading course in smart money concepts
The ForexLens forex trading course is free, online and self-paced. It teaches smart money concepts through 34 short games in four tiers, starting with market structure and ending with a complete entry model, position sizing and the evidence. Every chart is simulated, all money is play money, and nothing is sold.
Course facts
- Price
- Free. No card, no trial, no paid tier.
- Format
- Online and self-paced: interactive games in the browser, with a written guide for every concept.
- Length
- 34 games. A run of one game is five to ten short rounds, three to six minutes. Most people repeat a game several times.
- Level
- Beginner to advanced. Core starts from zero chart reading; the higher tiers assume Core.
- You need
- A phone or a computer. No trading account, no software, no prior experience.
- Certificate
- None. There is nothing to certify: this is practice, not a qualification.
- Language
- English.
- Made by
- Igor Komolov and the TradingFuse team, Toronto, Canada. Operated by Canadian Intelligence Agency Inc.
Syllabus
The Core tier is six floors, opened in order as you level up. Three more tiers follow. Game names link to a page that explains how each one plays.
Core tier: six floors, 20 games
Floor 1: Structure
Swing highs and lows, HH / HL / LH / LL, break of structure and change of character.
Guides: Market structure, Swing highs and lows, Break of structure (BOS), Change of character (CHoCH)
Floor 2: Liquidity
Equal highs and lows, session extremes, sweeps versus real breaks, inducement.
Guides: Liquidity, Liquidity sweep, Inducement
Floor 3: Imbalance
Fair value gaps, order blocks and telling displacement from noise.
Guides: Fair value gap, Order block, Displacement
Floor 4: Value
The dealing range, premium and discount, the 62 to 79% retracement, draw on liquidity.
Guides: Premium and discount, Optimal trade entry, Draw on liquidity
Floor 5: Time
Session windows in your own time zone, power of three, the opening fake-out.
Guides: Kill zones and sessions, Power of three (AMD), Judas swing
Floor 6: The Model
The full sequence, a written checklist, position sizing, and what 200 traders with the same model go through.
Guides: The entry model, Risk and position sizing
Advanced tier: multi-timeframe and context
Five games. You line up three timeframes, separate internal from external liquidity, classify a tested order block as a breaker, a mitigation block or neither, read the New York session from Asia and London, and wait out a boss built to bait an early entry. Opens at level 5, with a free account. Levels come from accuracy and process.
Guides: Breaker and mitigation blocks, Internal and external liquidity, Multi-timeframe alignment
Elite tier: execution under pressure and honest statistics
Five games. A stop slips through a news release, trade management is tested over 500 simulated trades, a backtest hides planted flaws, a simulated funded evaluation shows its pass-rate maths plainly, and a boss offers revenge trades after planned losses. Opens at level 8, with a free account. Levels come from accuracy and process.
Institutional tier: how the market works behind the concepts
Four games. You quote two-way prices as a dealer, net and work benchmark orders around the 4pm London fix, weigh the SMC story against plainer explanations with a book and a tape, and answer a risk committee with what the numbers show. Opens at level 11, with a free account. Levels come from accuracy and process.
Guides: FX dealers and the 4pm fix, Does SMC work?
Who it is for
- Beginners who want a structured way into chart reading. If pips and lots are new, spend an hour on Forex Fitness or the forex FAQ first.
- Traders who already use SMC terms and want to find out whether they apply them consistently. The games are exact, and most people are less consistent than they think.
- Sceptics. The fastest way to judge a method is to learn its rules precisely and then test them. The last tier is built for that.
What you will be able to do
- Mark swing highs and lows by a fixed rule and name the structure of any chart.
- Tell a break of structure from a change of character, and a liquidity sweep from a real breakout, by the close.
- Mark a fair value gap and an order block to the pip.
- Frame a dealing range, find premium and discount, and choose a target pool.
- Convert the London, New York and Asia windows to your own time zone.
- Run the full entry model as a written checklist, and size a position from the stop distance and a fixed risk.
- Explain the main criticisms of SMC, and say what evidence would change your mind.
What it is not
It is not financial advice, a signal service or a path to a funded account, and finishing it does not mean you will make money. Scores here measure whether you read a simulated chart by the rule and followed your process. They say nothing about your results in a live market, where spreads, slippage, news and your own nerves all take part.
Smart money concepts are a way of describing charts: widely used, and also contested. Most retail traders lose money. Read the evidence and the criticisms before you risk anything real.
A forex trading course in Canada, from Toronto
ForexLens is built in Toronto, and people looking for a forex course in Toronto or a forex trading course in Canada often land here. To be plain about what this is: an online course anyone can take from anywhere, free, with no classroom, no instructor-led sessions and no certificate. If you want to learn forex trading in Toronto, you can start tonight on your phone.
If you later open a live account, check that the dealer is registered to serve Canadian residents: the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) and the provincial securities regulators keep public lists. We have no relationship with any dealer, and nothing on this site depends on you trading.
About the course
Is the forex trading course really free?
Yes. Every game and every guide is free. There is no card, no trial period and no paid tier, and we take no referral or affiliate money from brokers or funded-account firms. The first game needs no account. A free account, with a verified email address, saves your progress and opens the rest.
Do I need any experience to start?
No. The first floor starts with the smallest building block, a swing high or low, and each game explains its rule before the first round. It helps to know what a currency pair and a pip are. If you do not, the forex FAQ covers them in a few minutes.
How long does the course take?
A single run of a game is three to six minutes. There are 34 games, and you will want several runs of each before the rule feels automatic, so think in weeks of short daily sessions, not hours. Floors and tiers open as you level up, and levels come from accuracy and consistency, so the pace is yours.
Will this course make me a profitable trader?
No course can promise that, and this one does not. It teaches you to read a chart by exact rules, to size a position and to follow a checklist. Those are necessary skills. They are not sufficient, and most retail traders lose money. The Reality Lab game shows why identical traders with the same model get very different results.
Is there a certificate?
No. A certificate would suggest a qualification, and there is none to give: nobody licenses retail chart reading. What you get is a record of your own accuracy by concept, which is more useful.
Lesson one is a chart
Play the first game now, without an account. Create a free account when you want your progress kept.