Best SMT Divergence Indicators on TradingView (2026), Code-Read.

Short answer: the popular open-source SMT divergence scripts agree on the idea, one market makes a new high or low and its partner doesn't, and disagree on almost everything else: which highs and lows count, how close in time they must be, what to do with an inverse pair, and when to decide. The most boosted, SMT Divergences by LuxAlgo, finds 3-candle swings on both markets and pairs only swings on the same candle, but marks on the live bar with no alerts. For swings on both markets, paired within 2 candles, decided on a closed candle, with alerts, SMT Divergence ICT 02 by TradingFinder is the closest in our read. For DXY, SMT (DXY) DIVERGENCES by Algoryze is the one that flips the dollar index correctly.

Most lists name SMT indicators.

This one reads them.

What we checked

SMT divergence is two markets that usually move together disagreeing at the same swing: one makes a lower low and the other doesn't (bullish), or one makes a higher high and the other doesn't (bearish). The guides quoted there name pairs such as ES and NQ futures, EURUSD and GBPUSD, and gold and silver, plus inverse pairs such as a dollar index (DXY) against EURUSD. None of them, as we checked them on 4 October 2026, says how close in time the two swings must be, so each script has to choose.

We searched TradingView's scripts for four terms on 31 October 2026 ("smt divergence", "smt", "ict smt" and "smart money technique"), which returned 84 scripts with SMT or smart money technique in the name: 45 open source, 33 protected and 6 invite-only. We took the 12 most-boosted open-source scripts built to find SMT divergence and read every line that decides when one is drawn. Four questions:

• The pair: which symbols does it compare, and are they fixed or yours to choose?
• The swings: how does it find the highs and lows (pivots of what length, or candle by candle), and does it match the two markets' swings in time?
• An inverse pair: does it flip DXY before comparing it with a dollar pair?
• When it decides: how many candles after the swing, and on a closed candle or the live one?

The replay below, from our SMT divergence explainer, reads one simulated pair close by close with that page's rule: swings confirmed 3 candles on each side, on both markets, at most 2 candles apart. Its tabs show the three cases the scripts below treat differently: one new low, two new lows, and two swings too far apart to be the same swing.

The table

Boosts as TradingView's search showed them on 31 October 2026.

Eight more have closed code, so they aren't in the table: SMT Divergence by TFO (6,656 boosts), ICT SMT by fadi (5,161), SMT Divergences V2 by OutOfOptions (5,042), SMT by joshuuu (3,278), SMT Divergence 2 by Nephew_Sam_ (2,319), SMT (ICT Concepts) by unlimitedmoneyprinter (2,208), Milana Trades' SMT Divergence PSP&PCP (1,395) and TakingProphets' SMT Pro+ (1,283) are protected, free to add with the code hidden. Four open scripts with similar boosts aren't SMT divergence tools: TradingFinder's Twitter Model (1,839) draws SMT with the SMT 01 engine, on 4-candle pivots, as one step of a larger model; [SMT] Buy & Sell Renko Based (2,132), where SMT is the author's name, and veegee82's Order-Block Detector ICT/SMT (1,750) read no second market; and SMT-Fill by buckotrades (1,086) compares how NQ, ES and YM fill fair value gaps, not their swings.

What the code says

LuxAlgo's is the popular one, and it pairs swings strictly. It finds 3-candle pivots on your chart and on each comparison market, and compares two pivots only when both print on the same candle; a new chart high (or low) with no partner pivot on that candle resets the comparison. A divergence is one pivot higher and the other lower than the pair before, so equal highs don't count. It has no inverse setting, so DXY in one of its slots would be read as a market that moves with yours. It marks on the live bar 3 candles after the swing, has no alerts, and is shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. TakingProphets' pivot mode is the same pairing, run at three lengths at once.

TradingFinder's SMT 02 is the closest to the guides' two-swing rule, with its own twist. It finds 3-candle pivots on both markets and pairs them when they're within 2 candles of each other (its "Pivot Sync Threshold"). Then it waits, on closed candles, for a candle up to 32 candles after the swing that takes one market's paired pivot and not the other's. That reads the sweep on one chart as it happens, rather than waiting for the next swing on both. Its alerts go through TradingFinder's alert library, and you pick the second symbol yourself: none is set by default.

TradingFinder's SMT 01 and Hidden SMT find swings on your chart only. Each takes 2-candle pivots on your chart and reads the second market's high or low (its close, in the Hidden version) on those same candles, whether or not the second market made a swing there. Both mark on the live bar and have no alerts.

The Sniper waits for the close and skips pivots. It compares each candle with the 12 before it on both markets, so it can call an SMT on the candle that makes it, with no confirmation lag. It then filters hard: the market that took its level must close back, the sweep must be deep enough in ATR, the candle must point the right way, and the two markets' 50-candle correlation must be at least 0.55 in its default Sniper preset. That correlation is fixed to "Positive", so a pair that moves against your chart, like DXY against EURUSD, can't pass. After an SMT it waits up to 8 candles for a displacement candle and a fair value gap or a structure break before an UP or DOWN signal, and draws a stop 2 ATR away and a 2R target for each; those are drawings, not a test.

OutOfOptions' reads sweeps of earlier pivots. It finds 1-candle pivots on your chart and its partner (ES for an NQ chart, NQ for ES, or the symbol you set) and counts an SMT when one market's new pivot takes out its earlier ones while the other market, on that candle, stays short of its own price at the time of the swept pivot. By default the pivot candle must also point the SMT's way on both markets. It decides on closed candles, alerts when an SMT forms and when price breaks it, and carries a copyright line but no licence.

Inverse pairs: two flip, one doesn't. A dollar index moves against EURUSD, so EURUSD's lower low lines up with DXY's higher high. Algoryze's turns DXY into 1 ÷ price and, at your highs, reads its lows, flipped: the flip done right. Nephew_Sam_'s SMT Pair also uses 1 ÷ price, but at your low it reads the dollar index's low, flipped, where an inverse pair calls for its high. Nephew_Sam_'s 1 Candle SMT compares DXY unflipped with the same test as GBPUSD, so the ordinary inverse move, EURUSD up and DXY down, counts as a divergence. The other nine have no inverse setting.

Which market has to make the new extreme differs. LuxAlgo's, all three TradingFinder scripts, the Sniper, Algoryze's, OutOfOptions' and 1 Candle SMT count either market making it. Nephew_Sam_'s SMT Pair, GatisA's and TakingProphets' candle mode count only a new extreme on your chart, and SwiftEdge's only on NQ, its first symbol.

The wait is the pivot length. A pivot is known only when the candles on its right have closed: 1 candle for SMT Pair and OutOfOptions, 3 for LuxAlgo's and GatisA's, and 14 on Algoryze's 15-minute chart, three and a half hours. Most of these scripts check on the live bar, so a pivot, and the SMT it makes, can appear while the right-hand candle is still trading and vanish if that candle trades beyond the swing. TradingFinder's SMT 02, the Sniper and OutOfOptions decide on closed candles; GatisA's reads only opens, which don't change once a candle starts.

Two details the charts don't show. None of the twelve checks that the second market's candle has your chart candle's time: each requests it without gaps (TradingView's default, which the Sniper also sets), so when the second market has no candle, its last one repeats and is compared as if it traded. And SwiftEdge's OTE zones, which its entry boxes use, come from 5- and 15-minute pivots requested with lookahead on, so on the history of a faster chart a pivot can appear before the candle that confirms it has closed. Its SMT itself reads NQ and ES at your chart's timeframe, where lookahead reads nothing ahead.

Ours

None of our tools draws an SMT divergence. IFVG Desk has one as a gate: turn on "Require synchronized SMT" and an IFVG entry needs the candle before it to make a new low (or high) against the 10 before that, while the comparison market's candle with the same open time doesn't. It compares with ES futures (CME_MINI:ES1!) by default, its Inverse setting compares the comparison's other side, and a missing or out-of-step candle on the second market fails the check rather than passing it. Everything is decided on closed candles; its panel lists the check as "SMT vs ES1!", and its entry alert reports whether it passed. It reads single candles, not two confirmed swings, so it doesn't do what the swing columns above check. Its full Pine v6 source comes in Pine Pro Library, $49 once.

Sweep Desk, in the same library, has the same idea before a sweep plan: "Require paired-market SMT", BTCUSDT by default, a window of 10 aligned closed candles, an inverse switch, and a check that stays valid for 6 candles. Both checks are off by default.

We haven't tested SMT divergence as a standalone rule, and we won't quote anyone's win rate for it. How we read it, with a written rule and four replays: SMT divergence, explained. The IFVG scripts IFVG Desk competes with: best IFVG indicators, code-read.

Check one yourself

• The pair: find input.symbol; its default is the market it compares with. Without 1 / on the second market's prices, or an inverse switch, don't use it on DXY against a dollar pair.
• The swings: ta.pivothigh(n, n) on both markets means swings on both, known n candles late; on your chart only, the second market is read on your swing's candle, swing or not.
• The time: look for what pairs the two swings: the same candle, a window such as TradingFinder's threshold, or nothing at all.
• The close: look for barstate.isconfirmed before the label and the alert. Without it, a divergence you see live may not be there when the candle closes.
• The gap: look for gaps = barmerge.gaps_on, or a check on the second market's candle time. Without one, a market that's closed repeats its last candle.

By hand: a two-chart layout on the same timeframe, both markets' swings marked, each compared with its own last swing. None of the scripts here, ours included, runs on MT5 or MT4: Pine Script runs only on TradingView.

Limits

One code read, on 31 October 2026, of the versions TradingView served that day. Scripts change, and boosts measure popularity, not quality. We build and sell IFVG Desk and Sweep Desk, and we have no relationship with any author named here. Nothing here is financial advice.

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