CCT Turtle Soup Strategy

Discover the CCT Turtle Soup Strategy for day trading Gold and Silver. Learn to identify bias on higher timeframes and enter 1-minute trades with precise candle

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Liquidity Sweeps & Grabs

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: 1 hour, 15 minute, 1 minute
  • Markets: Gold, Silver

Source video

Decoded from: Trading My "3-Step" CCT Turtle Soup Strategy - Day 32 by Cramson Capital — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:40 - Introduction to the 3-step process
  • 1:20 - Step 1: Determine bias (1H/15M)
  • 2:05 - Step 2: Mark levels (1H/15M)
  • 2:50 - Step 3: Enter the trade (1M)
  • 3:30 - Three-step entry combo explained
  • 4:50 - Example of the strategy in action on Gold
  • 6:30 - Explanation of tracking candle ranges
  • 8:20 - Stop loss placement and trailing

Strategy overview

Turtle Soup names a family of reversal trades built on one observation: the most obvious highs and lows on a chart are where stop orders rest, so a break through them can be the start of a move or the end of one. This entry decodes Cramson Capital's house version of that idea — the "CCT" Turtle Soup — presented in the video as a three-step process that keeps deciding direction, finding the level, and taking the trade as separate jobs, running down a 1-hour to 15-minute to 1-minute cascade with no indicators in the picture.

The name is inherited, and that is worth sitting with. Turtle Soup entered trading vocabulary through 1990s swing-trading literature as a narrowly specified daily-bar rule — fade the breakout of a 20-day extreme, precisely the breakout the original Turtle trend-following system existed to buy. What tends to travel forward under the name is the idea (breaks through obvious levels fail often enough to be worth trading against) rather than the specification (which lookback, which bar interval, what counts as invalidation). Prefixing it with a channel's initials is an honest signal that this is a rebuild rather than the original, but it also means the recognition the name carries arrives without the original's parameters attached.

The three-step structure also makes the distance visible between the frame that forms the opinion and the frame that commits the money: an hourly bias, quarter-hour levels, and an entry taken sixty times finer than the timeframe that chose the direction. That span is where a top-down method either earns its precision or spends it, since the finest step defines the risk while the coarsest step supplies the conviction. This is a talked-through session with Gold as the demonstration instrument rather than a rules document, and no rule set was extracted for this entry — so what this page offers is the concept and the video's own structure, not a mechanical specification.

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Frequently asked questions

What is a Turtle Soup strategy in trading?

Turtle Soup describes a reversal trade taken against a failed breakout: price runs through an obvious prior high or low, fails to hold beyond it, and reverses back inside the range. The name comes from 1990s swing-trading literature, where it was defined as fading breakouts of a 20-day extreme — the counterpoint to trend-following breakout systems.

What does the "3-step" process refer to in this version?

The video organizes the method into three separated jobs: establishing directional bias, marking the levels that matter, and then executing the entry. Bias and levels are handled on the higher timeframes (1 hour and 15 minutes) while the entry is taken on the 1-minute chart.

Is Turtle Soup the same thing as a liquidity sweep?

They describe the same event from different angles. A liquidity sweep names what price does — running through a level where resting stop orders sit. Turtle Soup names the trade someone takes against that run once it fails to continue. The vocabularies come from different traditions but point at the same price behaviour.

How can I evaluate a multi-timeframe strategy like this one?

Multi-timeframe methods are harder to test than single-timeframe ones, because the bias step and the entry step each need defining before anything can be backtested. Strategy Decoder extracts the structure of strategies from video sources so you can see what is specified and what is left to judgement; for this entry no rule set was extracted, so the page covers the concept and the video's framing rather than a testable rule set.

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