CRT (Candle Range Theory) Nasdaq Strategy

Day trade the Nasdaq and Nasdaq Futures using Candle Range Theory. This price action strategy identifies liquidity sweeps on 4-hour or 8-hour candles for 15-min

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Candle Range Theory (CRT)

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: 4-hour, 8-hour, 15-minute
  • Markets: Nasdaq, Nasdaq Futures

Source video

Decoded from: Vivo del trading dedicando solo 90 minutos al día | Estrategia Nasdaq CRT by Álvaro Barroso — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Estrategia de trading para el Nasdaq
  • 0:37 - Entiende que hace el Nasdaq gracias a CRT
  • 4:08 - Cómo utilizar CRT en el Nasdaq
  • 2:00 - Pre-10 AM entry explanation
  • 3:00 - Post-10 AM entry explanation
  • 5:00 - Practical case 1 (Post-10 AM)
  • 6:30 - Practical case 2 (Post-10 AM)
  • 7:30 - Practical case 3 (Pre-10 AM)

Strategy overview

Candle Range Theory reads a completed candle's range as a container that later price either sweeps or respects, and most CRT teaching stays deliberately instrument-agnostic. This entry does not. Álvaro Barroso builds it around the Nasdaq specifically, and treats the session clock as part of the setup rather than as background: the chapter list splits entry handling into two cases divided by a single time of day, one before 10 a.m. and one after. The title — "Vivo del trading dedicando solo 90 minutos al día" ("I live off trading dedicating only 90 minutes a day") — frames the whole thing as a time-budget question before it is a technique question.

That budget is what makes the declared timeframe ladder legible. The ranges here are read on 4-hour and 8-hour candles while execution drops to 15 minutes, and higher-timeframe range candles take hours to complete — so the container forms while the screen is off, and the attention window is spent on where the resolution happens rather than on watching the range build. The 10 a.m. fork sits at the same seam: it separates trades taken while the day's early structure is still unresolved from those taken once it has settled. What the video does not declare anywhere in its public metadata is the timezone that 10 a.m. belongs to, which matters more for a Nasdaq-specific method than it would for a generic one.

Two things are worth naming plainly. The headline is an income-and-lifestyle claim, not a performance claim: it describes the creator's routine and says nothing testable about the method itself. And no rule set has been extracted for this entry, so this page offers the concept, the declared instrument and timeframe ladder, and a pointer to the Spanish-language source, whose chapter markers are sparse and partly out of sequence, with a single worked case shown for the post-10 a.m. variant.

Topics

trading strategy · pine script · tradingview strategy · price action · nasdaq strategy · nasdaq futures · day trading strategy · 15 minute strategy · 4 hour strategy · 8 hour strategy · candle range theory · liquidity sweep strategy · nasdaq day trading · futures trading strategy

Frequently asked questions

What is Candle Range Theory (CRT)?

CRT treats a completed candle's range as a container that later price interacts with — sweeping one side of it before resolving, or respecting it as a boundary — and uses that relationship to read direction on lower timeframes.

Why does this Nasdaq version split entries at 10 a.m.?

The video's chapters divide entry handling into a pre-10 a.m. case and a post-10 a.m. case, separating trades taken while the session's early structure is still unresolved from those taken afterwards. The source does not state which timezone that 10 a.m. refers to, so anyone reproducing it should confirm that against the video itself.

What timeframes does this version use?

The timeframes attached to this entry are 4-hour and 8-hour for the range and 15-minute for execution — a higher-timeframe pattern with lower-timeframe entry, which is also why the ranges finish forming without the trader watching them.

Does "90 minutes a day" mean the strategy only needs 90 minutes of screen time?

That figure comes from the video title and describes the creator's stated routine, not a measured property of the method. Treat it as framing rather than a result, and backtest the underlying idea on Nasdaq data before assuming any particular time commitment is enough. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies like this one from video sources so you can evaluate them on TradingView.

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