ICT Concepts, Candle Ranges, Order Blocks Strategy

A multi-timeframe ICT strategy for Forex, using daily bias, 4-hour candle ranges, and 15-minute order block entries with a 1:3 risk-reward ratio.

Published · Updated · Methodology: ICT

Part of: Candle Range Theory (CRT)

  • Methodology: ICT
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: Daily, 4-hour, 15-minute
  • Markets: Forex (EU, GU mentioned)

Indicators used

  • Order Block
  • Fair Value Gap
  • Smart Money Concepts (SMC)
  • ICT Concepts
  • Candle Ranges (CRT)
  • Market Structure
  • Dealing Range
  • Liquidity Purge
  • Breaker Block
  • SMT Divergence (Smart Money Tool Divergence)

Source video

Decoded from: My Simple 15 Minute Trading Strategy for 2026 (Verified Results) by Sham — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Intro + $32k profits in 1 month.
  • 1:08 - Step by step framework.
  • 1:49 - 1st component (Daily Bias).
  • 3:30 - 2nd component (Candle Range).
  • 5:23 - 3rd component (Entry Model).
  • 6:32 - Trade example - 1.
  • 11:53 - Trade example - 2.
  • 19:16 - Trade example - 3.
  • 23:20 - Verified trade results.

Strategy overview

Candle Range Theory treats a completed higher-timeframe candle as a range whose high and low hold the liquidity that later price action goes looking for. On this page, CRT is not the whole method — it is one component in a wider ICT stack decoded from Sham's video "My Simple 15 Minute Trading Strategy for 2026 (Verified Results)", where the candle range sits between a daily directional bias and an entry model executed on the 15-minute chart.

What stands out is how much ICT vocabulary the video carries behind the word "simple": order blocks, fair value gaps, breaker blocks, the dealing range, liquidity purges, market structure and SMT divergence all appear alongside the candle range. For an ICT-style trader, simple rarely means few ideas — it means each idea has one job, and none of them has a numeric setting to tune, because these are chart reads rather than indicator outputs. The least CRT-native element here is SMT divergence, which steps off the traded chart entirely and compares correlated instruments — EUR/USD against GBP/USD, for instance — to check whether a sweep on one is confirmed or contradicted by the other.

No structured rule set was extracted from this video, so this page does not reproduce entry, exit or risk instructions; it documents which concepts the source works with and how they relate to each other. The profit figure and "Verified Results" claim in the title and intro are the creator's own, and are best treated as a reason to test the concepts yourself rather than as measured performance.

Topics

ict trading · forex strategy · tradingview strategy · order block strategy · smart money concepts · multi timeframe strategy · candle ranges · 15 minute strategy · ict concepts forex · swing trading

Frequently asked questions

How does Candle Range Theory fit together with ICT order blocks and fair value gaps?

They operate at different scales. The candle range frames where liquidity sits and which side of it price has taken, while order blocks, fair value gaps and breaker blocks are the finer levels an ICT trader marks inside that context for execution. In this video they are used as parts of the same stack rather than as competing methods.

What is SMT divergence and why compare two different pairs?

SMT (Smart Money Tool/Technique) divergence compares correlated instruments — such as EUR/USD and GBP/USD — and looks for moments when one makes a new high or low and the other fails to follow. The disagreement is read as a sign that the move lacks broad participation, which is why it is used as a cross-asset check rather than a signal on its own.

Do ICT concepts like order blocks or candle ranges have settings to configure?

Not in the way a moving average or RSI does. They are identified visually on the chart, which is why two traders using the same named concept can mark different levels — and why comparing several versions of the same idea is often more informative than adopting the first one you see.

Does this page contain the exact rules from the video?

No. Strategy Decoder did not extract a structured rule set from this source, so this entry covers the concepts involved and the video that presents them, without entry, exit or risk instructions. For the specifics you would need to watch the original video and test the ideas on historical data yourself.

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