IDEA: AUTO VIDEO SCOUT — evaluate this trading strategy video for the swarm: VIDEO: "Smart Money Concept (SMC) Explained | High Liquidity, FVG, Order Blocks & Entry Trading Strategy ||" by Finance Forge — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1jdSGOKTkE (duration 275s, 0 views; found via search 'smart money concepts order block strategy'). TASK FOR MERLIN: From the title, channel and your knowledge of this trader/method, identify the strategy being taught. Judge it for OUR use: we scalp fast (15s-7m charts), long or short, targets set by E8 sacred geometry BEFORE entry. State what the method gets right, where it is weak, and exactly how E8 node/rhythm logic would improve on it. Verdict PROMISING only if a concrete, testable edge exists that we can code into the Replay Bench. SAME-WINDOW EFFECT: If this SMC BOS/CHoCH + FVG retest strategy had been live over the current window, it would have likely filtered out several of the losing rizzy5m XAUUSD shorts (e.g., 4051.79, 4066.35) because t Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
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