Price Action, Market Structure Strategy

A price action and market structure strategy focusing on identifying liquidity sweeps and Choch breaks on 1M and 15M charts for prop firm challenges. Uses stric

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Market Structure

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: 15 minutes (for range identification), 1 minute (for Choch and entry)
  • Markets: Not specified (implied Forex/indices as it's for prop firms)

Source video

Decoded from: La Mejor Estrategia para Pasar una Prueba de Fondeo en 2025 by Titanes del Trading — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:28 - Introduction to the strategy and its effectiveness for prop firm challenges
  • 0:52 - Rule 1: Marking highs and lows within a specific time range
  • 2:08 - Rule 2: Waiting for liquidity sweep between 9:30 AM and 2 PM UTC-3
  • 2:44 - Rule 3: Waiting for a Choch (Change of Character) on a 1-minute timeframe
  • 3:45 - Rule 4: Entry on the penultimate candle before retracement
  • 5:40 - Stop loss and take profit rules
  • 6:10 - Risk management: 1% risk per operation
  • 6:35 - Example 1: Long trade setup
  • 10:48 - Example 2: Long trade setup

Strategy overview

Market structure is the running record of highs and lows that tells you which side of the market currently has control, and a Change of Character (CHoCH) is the moment that record flips. What makes this entry distinct is not the concept but the brief it was built against: the video is aimed squarely at passing a proprietary-firm evaluation, so the setup is shaped by a challenge's constraints — a limited number of trading days, a hard drawdown ceiling, a fixed profit target — rather than by open-ended discretion. That reframes what "best" means here; a prop-firm strategy is optimized for surviving a rule set, not for extracting the most from a move.

The clock does most of the filtering. The chapter list shows the setup bounded by a defined intraday window quoted in UTC-3 — a South American time reference, matching the Spanish-language channel Titanes del Trading — with the 15-minute chart used only to draw the boundaries of the range and the 1-minute chart used to look for the CHoCH inside them. That division of labour is the practical core: the higher timeframe never generates a signal, it only defines where a signal is allowed to count, and the lower one carries all of the timing. It is a structure read compressed into a session window, which is exactly what an evaluation account's day-count pressure tends to produce.

The source is a six-minute Spanish-language walkthrough that numbers its rules one through four and closes with a chapter on risk placement. No rule set has been extracted for this page, so what follows is the concept and the source's own outline rather than a decoded breakdown — the video itself remains the reference for how each of those numbered steps is defined.

Topics

price action · market structure · trading strategy · prop firm strategy · liquidity sweep · choch trading · 15 minute strategy · 1 minute strategy · forex strategy · scalping strategy · tradingview strategy · smart money concept · ict trading · price action market structure strategy

Frequently asked questions

What is a Change of Character (CHoCH) in market structure?

A CHoCH is the point where the sequence of highs and lows reverses its pattern — for example, an uptrend making higher highs and higher lows that instead breaks below its prior higher low. Traders read it as the first structural evidence that control has shifted from one side to the other.

Why do prop-firm strategies use a fixed time window?

Evaluation accounts impose drawdown limits and minimum trading days, which pushes traders toward setups that occur predictably and can be walked away from. Restricting entries to a defined session window — here quoted in UTC-3 — bounds exposure to the hours the trader has actually studied, instead of leaving the account open to conditions the setup was never built for.

Why use a 15-minute and a 1-minute chart together?

In this approach the two charts do different jobs: the 15-minute is used to identify the range and mark its boundaries, while the 1-minute is where the change of character and the entry are located. The higher timeframe supplies context and the lower one supplies timing — a common pairing when a trader wants intraday precision without losing the larger structural read.

How can I evaluate a prop-firm strategy like this one before using it in a challenge?

Backtest it on historical intraday data covering the specific session window it depends on, then forward-test it on a demo or a low-cost evaluation before committing to a paid challenge. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies like this one from their video sources so you can locate the original explanation and test the concept on TradingView yourself.

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