CRT Strategy - Tendential Mode

Automated trend-following strategy for Nasdaq. Uses daily bias and pre-market range manipulation for M5 entries, trading in the direction of the daily candle.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Candle Range Theory (CRT)

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: D1 (Daily), H4 (Pre-market range, inferred from '4 horas previas'), M5 (Entry)
  • Markets: Nasdaq

Source video

Decoded from: Bot CRT en Nasdaq — configuración tendencial #tradingbot # #innovacionfinanciera #tradingstrategy by José Martínez - GreaterWaves — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:17 - Daily bias explanation
  • 0:30 - M5 range identification (London session)
  • 0:59 - Phase 1: Breakout of lower level
  • 1:18 - Phase 2: Price reclaims the level
  • 1:32 - Phase 3: Price retrocedes and closes below level (entry trigger)
  • 1:49 - Stop loss placement
  • 1:59 - Take profit placement

Strategy overview

Candle Range Theory (CRT) treats a completed higher-timeframe candle as a range whose extremes become the reference levels a lower timeframe then works around. What this entry records is not a fresh explanation of that idea but a labelled setting: a CRT bot running on Nasdaq in what the channel calls its *configuración tendencial* — its tendential, or trend-aligned, mode.

A mode name is a claim about bias rather than about mechanics. "Tendential" only carries meaning against the counterparts it implies — the same bot presumably able to run in a posture that does not require agreement with the prevailing direction — and against whatever defines the direction it aligns with. On that point the video is more forthcoming than most: it declares a top-down hierarchy, with a daily read establishing bias, an intraday range supplying the levels, and execution stepping down to five minutes. It also names its instrument, which many CRT clips leave open. What stays unsettled is the load-bearing term itself: what makes a daily read bullish or bearish is the judgment the whole mode hangs on, and a mode label does not decide it — nor are the clock times and timezone that fix the intraday window on record.

The format matches the ambition: a Spanish-language short from José Martínez – GreaterWaves, trailing discovery hashtags (#tradingbot, #tradingstrategy, #innovacionfinanciera), chaptered into a compact numbered sequence that reaches risk placement inside two minutes. That is the anatomy of one configuration being demonstrated, not a course on the method. No rule set has been extracted for this entry, so the page stands as a record of the variant's framing — the mode, the instrument, and the timeframe stack it declares — with the concept itself covered on the CRT hub.

Topics

crt strategy · trend following strategy · nasdaq trading strategy · price action · pine script · tradingview strategy · day trading strategy · m5 strategy · daily timeframe strategy · pre-market trading · market manipulation · order block trading · technical analysis · trading strategy

Frequently asked questions

What is Candle Range Theory (CRT)?

CRT reads a completed higher-timeframe candle as a range, using its high and low as the reference levels that a lower timeframe then trades around — typically watching how price behaves once it interacts with one of those extremes.

What does "tendential mode" mean for a CRT bot?

It is a configuration label, not a separate method: the video presents this as the trend-aligned setting of a CRT bot on Nasdaq, meaning the setup is gated by a higher-timeframe directional read. The name implies the bot can run in other modes, though this video covers only the trend-aligned one.

What timeframes does this version work on?

It declares a top-down stack rather than a single chart: a daily timeframe for directional bias, an intraday range for the levels, and a five-minute chart for execution. The session window's clock times and timezone are not stated in the video.

Does automating CRT make it more reliable?

Automation does not validate a method, but it does force precision — a bot cannot run on "the range broke" without an exact definition of the range, the break and the bias filter. That is why automated variants are worth testing on historical data before any capital is involved; Strategy Decoder catalogues variants like this one so they can be compared and evaluated.

About this strategy page

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