Market Cycle, Multiple Timeframe Analysis, Key Levels

Learn a price action trading strategy using multiple timeframe analysis (1H/15M) and key levels to identify high win-rate setups and optimal entry points.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Support & Resistance

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: educational
  • Timeframes: 1 hour, 15 minutes
  • Markets: Not specified

Source video

Decoded from: Market cycle | Define the BEST condition for Multiple Timeframe by Jayce PHAM trader - NCI's Market structure — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Introduction to market cycle and winrate setups
  • 0:10 - 1-hour timeframe as big timeframe uptrend
  • 0:20 - Identifying strongest buying zone on 15-minute timeframe
  • 0:40 - Condition for trading: first test of the zone
  • 1:00 - Avoiding trading after multiple tests of the zone
  • 1:15 - What to do after multiple tests: wait for breakout

Strategy overview

Key levels are the horizontal zones — prior highs, lows and reaction areas — that price action traders treat as the map on which everything else is read. What makes this entry unusual is its scale: the chapter map runs from 0:00 to 1:15, six markers inside seventy-five seconds, roughly one beat every twelve seconds. That is not a lesson with an introduction and a conclusion; it is a short-form clip built to deliver a single filter, and the record should be read as such.

The filter is about zone freshness rather than zone location. The two timeframes are role-split in the conventional way — the 1-hour supplies the directional context, the 15-minute is where the zone is identified — but the markers spend their second half not on how to find the zone at all. They move to how many times it has already been touched, and to what changes once it has been touched more than once. That is the video's actual subject, and it is worth noting that "market cycle", the first word of the title, appears at 0:00 and never returns to the map; the cycle is the framing, the testing count is the content.

Everything a rules-based reader would want to pin down is absent: no instrument, no session, no settings — expected, since a price-action approach with an empty indicator list draws its zones by eye — and no chapter for entry, exit or risk. The title's "BEST condition" and the opening marker's "winrate setups" are the channel's own framing, unaccompanied by any figure anywhere in the record, so treat them as emphasis rather than measurement; the channel name itself carries a school badge ("NCI's Market structure"), which places the vocabulary before the video starts. No rules were extracted from this source, so what is transferable here is the idea that a level's history is part of its quality — not a specification you could code.

Topics

trading strategy · pine script · tradingview strategy · price action · multiple timeframe analysis · key levels strategy · 1 hour strategy · 15 minute strategy · market cycle analysis · swing trading strategy · trading entry strategy · high win rate strategy

Frequently asked questions

What are key levels in price action trading?

Key levels are horizontal zones drawn from prior highs, lows and areas where price previously reacted. In a price-action approach they are marked by eye rather than calculated by an indicator, which is why this strategy record lists no indicators or settings.

Why does it matter how many times a support or resistance zone has been tested?

A zone's history is often treated as part of its quality: an untouched zone still holds the resting orders that gave it significance, while a repeatedly tested one has had that supply or demand consumed. This video's chapter map spends its second half on exactly that distinction rather than on how to locate the zone.

How are the 1-hour and 15-minute charts used together here?

They are role-split, which is the standard multiple-timeframe arrangement: the 1-hour establishes the broader directional context, and the 15-minute is where the zone itself is identified. Neither timeframe is presented as tradeable on its own.

Does this video give a complete set of trading rules?

No — it is a seventy-five-second clip covering one condition, with no entry, exit or risk segment in its chapter map, and no rules were extracted from it on Strategy Decoder. It is best treated as a single filter to add to an existing framework, not as a standalone method.

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