CRT (Candle Range Theory) Strategy

Swing trade Crude Oil using the CRT strategy across daily, 4-hour, and 15-minute timeframes. Spot bearish bias from high sweeps & candle rejection, then refine

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Candle Range Theory (CRT)

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: Daily, 4-hour, 15-minute
  • Markets: Crude Oil

Indicators used

  • CRT (Candle Range Theory)
  • Turtle Soup
  • Structure Break

Source video

Decoded from: Así Gané 1080€ con el Modelo CRT en Diario (Candle Range Theory) by Trading Forex TV — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:40 - Introduction to CRT on Daily
  • 1:20 - Identifying the context and previous high sweep
  • 2:00 - Defining the operating range
  • 2:40 - Interpreting candle rejection for bearish bias
  • 3:30 - Moving to 4-hour for Turtle Soup
  • 4:00 - Identifying Turtle Soup at London Open
  • 4:30 - Dropping to 15-minute for entry confirmation
  • 4:50 - Identifying structure break on 15-minute
  • 5:20 - Entry and Stop Loss placement
  • 5:40 - Take Profit and Risk-Reward Ratio

Strategy overview

Candle Range Theory reads a single candle as a self-contained map — its high and low as the liquidity boundaries, its body and close as the verdict on which side lost. What sets this entry apart is that it is not a lesson in that idea but a narrated account of one trade taken with it: the title, "Así Gané 1080€ con el Modelo CRT en Diario (Candle Range Theory)", puts a euro figure and a specific timeframe up front, and the video from Trading Forex TV follows a single setup from context to entry.

The published chapter markers behave like the trade's own chronology rather than a syllabus. They run from CRT on the daily chart, to reading the context and a sweep of a previous high, to defining the operating range, to interpreting the candle's rejection as a bearish bias — and only then drop to the 4-hour chart to look for a Turtle Soup at the London Open. That ordering is the interesting part: the daily candle is asked to supply the frame and the direction, while the actual trigger is borrowed from a neighbouring vocabulary — a failed break back through a swept level — and pinned to a session open. The daily range decides where; the London Open decides when.

Worth keeping in view is what a headline result of this kind can and cannot establish. A euro amount describes one outcome, not a distribution: without position size, risk per trade, account size and how many similar setups were passed over or lost, it says nothing about whether the sequence repeats. The instrument is not declared, and although the strategy record lists a 15-minute chart alongside the daily and 4-hour, the visible chapter markers stop before reaching it. This page catalogues the concepts the walkthrough leans on — CRT, the liquidity sweep, the Turtle Soup and the structure break — and where they sit relative to other CRT material; the video itself remains the record of how this particular trade was called.

Topics

crt strategy · candle range theory · price action · trading strategy · crude oil strategy · oil trading strategy · swing trading · daily timeframe strategy · 4-hour strategy · 15-minute strategy · turtle soup strategy · structure break strategy · pine script · tradingview strategy

Frequently asked questions

What is Candle Range Theory (CRT)?

CRT treats a single candle's range as the unit of analysis: its high and low mark where liquidity rests, and the way price sweeps one side and then closes back inside is read as a signal about which direction has control. It is usually applied top-down, with a higher-timeframe candle framing the range and a lower timeframe used for entry.

What is a Turtle Soup, and how does it relate to CRT?

Turtle Soup describes a failed breakout — price runs through an obvious high or low, takes the orders resting there, and then reverses back through the level instead of continuing. In this walkthrough it is used on the 4-hour chart as the entry trigger after the daily CRT read has set the directional bias, with the London Open as the timing reference.

Which timeframes does this version use?

The strategy record lists daily, 4-hour and 15-minute charts. The video's chapter markers show the daily used to define the range and bias and the 4-hour used to locate the Turtle Soup at the London Open; the visible outline does not reach the 15-minute step.

Does a single €1,080 result show that CRT works?

No. One trade is a single observation, and a currency figure carries no information about position size, risk taken, or how many comparable setups did not work. Judging any price-action model requires a defined instrument, period and sample — which is why Strategy Decoder catalogues the structure of strategies extracted from video sources, so the same concept can be compared across creators and tested rather than taken on a headline number.

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