Quick Start
Get Valhalla SMC on your chart and running in under two minutes.
Step 1: Add the Indicator
Open TradingView, click Indicators at the top of your chart, search for Valhalla SMC, and add it to your chart. You'll immediately see structure lines, the trend band, and the dashboard.
Step 2: Choose Your Signal Mode
Open Settings → Signals → Signals Mode. Pick the mode that matches your style:
CHOCH Entry
Reversal traders, signals fire on structure shifts
Continuation Entry
Trend-followers, signals fire on pullbacks to the band
Both
See all setups, CHOCH entries + continuation entries together
Step 3: Set Your Time Horizon
The Time Horizon setting (under Market Structure) is the most important setting in the SMC Indicator, it controls how many bars the algorithm uses to analyze previous price action.
Lower values (5–8) react faster with more frequent CHOCH structure events:
Higher values (12–40+) produce cleaner, more significant structure. The default of 10 is a solid middle ground:
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If you want to receive a higher amount of pullback signals, we recommend setting the Time Horizon setting to a higher value.
Step 4: Configure Targets
Under Bull / Bear Signals and Continuation Signals, you can choose between Smart targets (structure-anchored TP1/TP2/TP3) or Fixed R Multiples.
Smart mode is recommended, it automatically finds structural swing targets, opposing order blocks, and HTF liquidity pools.
Smart mode sources each TP level from a different structural element, creating a three-tier target system anchored to real market levels rather than arbitrary R multiples.
Smart Mode Structural Targets:
TP1
Nearest structural swing
Pullback-origin swing
The closest swing high (for longs) or swing low (for shorts) above/below entry that price hasn't reached yet
TP2
Nearest opposing order block
Nearest opposing order block
The closest unmitigated OB in the opposing direction, the first "wall" side of the OB zone
TP3
HTF liquidity pool
HTF liquidity pool
The nearest active (unpurged) HTF session high/low beyond the trade's existing targets
Missing Levels
Smart mode skips any level that doesn't have a valid structural target. If no opposing swing exists above entry, TP1 simply won't be drawn. If all three sources are missing, the indicator falls back to fixed R multiples.
Labels indicate the source: TP1 Swing, TP2 OB, TP3 Liq.
It's Important to note that each TP Target in Smart Mode is Independent from each other, meaning in some cases the TP3 could appear before the TP2 and so on.
Fixed R Mode
When Target Mode is set to Fixed R Multiples, all three targets are computed as simple multiples of the risk (distance from entry to SL). Defaults: TP1 = 0.5R, TP2 = 1R, TP3 = 1.5R. These are fully configurable in settings.
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Start with the defaults and observe 20–30 signals before tweaking. The grade filter (Minimum Grade to Show Signal) is one of the most impactful settings, setting it to B removes the lowest-conviction setups.
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