CRT (Candle Range Theory) Strategy

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Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Candle Range Theory (CRT)

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: Not specified
  • Markets: Forex

Source video

Decoded from: Te doy la Estrategia CRT (Candle Range Theory) automatizada by Hobbiecode — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Introduction to CRT strategy

Strategy overview

Candle Range Theory (CRT) treats a single candle's range as the map for what follows — one side gets swept, price reverses back through the body, and the move delivers toward the opposite extreme. What distinguishes this entry from most CRT material is its framing: the title is not "how CRT works" but "Te doy la Estrategia CRT (Candle Range Theory) automatizada" — I'm giving you the automated CRT strategy. That is a handover, not a lesson. The Spanish-language channel Hobbiecode positions the video around a finished artifact rather than around teaching you to read the candle yourself.

That framing carries a consequence worth naming, because automating a range-reading pattern is not a neutral translation of it. Read manually, CRT leaves several decisions to the trader's eye: which candle is treated as the defining range, what counts as a genuine sweep of its edge rather than noise, and how long the read stays valid if the expansion never arrives. Code cannot leave any of those open — an automated CRT is necessarily one author's committed answer to each of them. What is handed over, then, is not CRT in general but a specific resolution of its ambiguities, and whether that resolution is useful to you depends on whether it matches how you would have read the candle yourself.

No rule set was extracted for this entry, so this page does not reproduce the logic behind that automation. Two gaps are visible from the source itself. No timeframe is declared anywhere in the video's metadata, which costs more here than in a discretionary lesson: the range candle's timeframe is the clock of the entire system, and the same code applied to H4 and to M15 is not the same strategy. And the video carries a single chapter marker at 0:00, pointing to one continuous walkthrough rather than a segmented breakdown. For the pattern itself, the Candle Range Theory concept page is the better starting point.

Topics

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Frequently asked questions

What is Candle Range Theory (CRT)?

CRT reads a chosen candle's high-low range as a framework for the next move: one edge of the range is swept to take out resting orders, price reverses back inside, and the subsequent move targets the opposite edge.

Can a CRT strategy be automated?

In principle yes, but automation forces choices the discretionary version leaves open — which candle defines the range, what qualifies as a sweep, and when an unresolved setup expires. Any automated CRT is one specific set of answers to those questions rather than the concept as a whole.

What timeframe does this automated CRT version use?

The source video does not declare one. That is a meaningful omission for an automated approach, since the timeframe of the range candle determines how often setups appear and how long each one takes to resolve.

How should I evaluate a ready-made automated strategy before using it?

Test it yourself on historical data across more than one instrument and period, and check that its built-in definitions match your own reading of the pattern. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies from video sources so you can compare them — note that for this particular video no rule set was extracted, so only the concept and the source are documented here.

About this strategy page

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