CRT, Smart Money Concepts, Order Blocks

Learn about the CRT (Concepto de Rango de Trading) method for market direction using Smart Money Concepts and Order Blocks. Ideal for ICT trading.

Published · Updated · Methodology: ICT

Part of: Candle Range Theory (CRT)

  • Methodology: ICT
  • Content type: educational

Indicators used

  • Smart Money Concepts
  • Order Block

Source video

Decoded from: CRT la forma mas facil para determinar la dirección by STREETPIPS — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Introduction to CRT
  • 0:05 - Mention of Smart Money Concepts and Order Blocks

Strategy overview

Candle Range Theory (CRT) reads a completed candle's range as the reference frame for what price does next. What separates this entry from most CRT material is the job it assigns the concept: the source video is titled "CRT la forma mas facil para determinar la dirección" — CRT as a way of *determining direction*, not as an entry pattern. Those are different products. A directional read tells you which side of the market to be looking for; an entry tells you where to act and where you are wrong. A method can be serviceable at the first and useless at the second, and framing a concept as a bias tool sets a lower and more testable bar than framing it as a complete setup.

The accompanying tags — Smart Money Concepts and order blocks — suggest a division of labour rather than a stack of confirmations. Order blocks are location claims: they mark a zone and say *here*. CRT, in the framing this video adopts, supplies the *which way*. When a directional read is paired with a location tool, the read only has to be right about bias, because the order block is carrying the precision; that is a coherent way to combine them, and it also means the CRT portion cannot be judged by entry accuracy. The published chapter markers cover only the first five seconds of the video — an intro and the mention of Smart Money Concepts and order blocks — so how the rest of the runtime is allocated between the three ideas is not visible from the outside.

One thing worth separating before watching: "la forma más fácil" is a claim about cognitive cost, not about accuracy. Easiest means least to track, fewest conditions to hold in mind, fastest to apply on a live chart — all real benefits, and none of them evidence that the resulting direction call is more often right. Simplicity and reliability get read as one property far more often than they behave like one. No trading rules were extracted from this source, and neither timeframe nor instrument is declared, so this page covers the concept and how the video positions it rather than a rule set you can implement from here.

Topics

smart money concepts · order blocks · ict trading · pine script · trading strategy · tradingview strategy · market direction · price action · ict strategy

Frequently asked questions

What does it mean to use CRT to determine direction?

It means using the concept as a bias filter rather than a trade trigger: the candle range is read to decide which side of the market to favour, leaving the questions of exact entry, stop and target to be answered by something else. It is a narrower job than a full setup, and a correspondingly narrower claim.

How do Smart Money Concepts and order blocks relate to CRT here?

They tend to divide the work. Order blocks are location markers — they identify a zone of interest — while CRT in this framing supplies the directional read. Smart Money Concepts is the broader vocabulary both sit inside. The video introduces all three in its opening seconds, which suggests they are used together rather than as alternatives.

Does the "easiest way" framing mean CRT is the most reliable way to read direction?

No. Ease refers to how much a trader has to track and how quickly the read can be applied — a genuine advantage for learning and for live decisions, but a separate property from accuracy. A simple rule can be simple and still wrong; the video's title makes a claim about the first, not the second.

What timeframe and market is this intended for?

Neither is stated in the source. Since CRT is a range-based read, the timeframe materially changes what the range represents and how often a directional call refreshes, so that omission is worth resolving on your own charts before relying on it. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies like this one from video sources so you can see what a source actually specifies and what it leaves open.

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