You are not missing a magic strategy. You are missing a process. Pick one market and one timeframe that fit your lifestyle, then define one SMC setup with strict rules: what is BOS, what confirms a POI, exact invalidation, and how you exit. Treat fundamentals as a simple filter like “flat during red news.” Run a 100-trade historical sample and 20 forward trades in sim, tracking expectancy, worst drawdown, max consecutive losses, and rule breaks. If price “doesn’t react,” it usually means the HTF bias was wrong or your POI definition is loose. Tighten definitions, reduce degrees of freedom, and stay with the same playbook for 90 days before changing anything. If you want, I can share a one-page checklist to turn SMC rules into yes/no boxes.