Trend Following, Fibonacci Retracement, Order Blocks Strategy

Decoded trend-following strategy for Bitcoin, gold and Nasdaq on 5- and 1-minute charts, combining Fibonacci retracements with order blocks.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Order Blocks

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: 5 minutes, 1 minute, 15 minutes, Higher timeframes (implied for trend identification)
  • Markets: Bitcoin, Gold, Nasdaq, S&P500, Forex (implied by Metatrader mention)

Indicators used

  • Fibonacci Retracement
  • Order Block
  • Imbalances
  • Liquidity Zones

Source video

Decoded from: La Única Estrategia de Trading que he Usado Durante 9 Años (Sencilla pero Rentable) by ABAD TRADER — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:44 - Introduction to the strategy
  • 3:00 - Importance of trend following
  • 4:50 - Waiting for corrections/rebounds
  • 5:00 - Using Fibonacci and institutional zones
  • 6:30 - Fibonacci settings explained
  • 8:00 - Fibonacci levels for entry (50%, 61.8%, 75%)
  • 9:00 - Institutional zones (Order Blocks, Imbalances, Liquidity)
  • 10:00 - Combining Fibonacci with Order Blocks
  • 11:00 - Example of a trade with structural change

Strategy overview

An order block is the zone a large, absorbing move leaves behind on the chart — but in this entry the order block is not the protagonist. It arrives as one item in a bundle of "institutional zones" alongside imbalances and liquidity areas, all serving the same subordinate job: confirming a location that a Fibonacci retracement has already picked out inside an established trend. The sequence the video teaches runs trend first, correction second, confluence third, which inverts the usual smart-money framing where the block itself starts the analysis.

The source is a Spanish-language video from ABAD TRADER, "La Única Estrategia de Trading que he Usado Durante 9 Años (Sencilla pero Rentable)" — a title that stakes its credibility on longevity rather than on accuracy or filtering. That framing shapes the outline: an early stretch is spent arguing why trend direction has to be settled before anything else, followed by the discipline of waiting for a pullback instead of chasing the move. Notably, the video's precision budget goes almost entirely to the retracement tool, which gets its own configuration chapter, while the institutional zones are introduced descriptively — candles that absorbed order flow, areas left by larger participants — rather than defined mechanically.

The declared timeframes are intraday (1-minute, 5-minute and 15-minute), with the trend read taken from above them; how a viewer bridges that higher-timeframe direction down to a minute-level entry is left to the presenter's on-chart demonstration. No structured rule set has been extracted for this entry, so this page covers the concept and how the source frames it — the role each component plays and the order they are applied in — rather than a step-by-step reconstruction. The nine-year claim is the presenter's own, stated in the title.

Topics

trading strategy · pine script · tradingview strategy · price action · trend following strategy · fibonacci retracement strategy · order block strategy · bitcoin trading strategy · gold trading strategy · forex strategy · nasdaq strategy · s&p500 strategy · scalping strategy · 1 minute strategy · 15 minute strategy

Frequently asked questions

What role do order blocks play in a Fibonacci retracement strategy?

They act as confluence rather than as the trigger. The retracement narrows where a pullback might end; the order block answers whether that price has a structural reason to matter. In this video, order blocks are grouped with imbalances and liquidity zones as interchangeable examples of the same idea — an area where larger participants previously transacted.

Why does this strategy insist on identifying the trend before anything else?

Because it is a continuation approach, not a reversal one. The retracement and the institutional zone are only used to time re-entry in the direction already established, which is why the source video spends its opening section on trend identification before introducing any tool.

What timeframes does this strategy use?

The material decoded here references 1-minute, 5-minute and 15-minute charts for execution, with trend direction taken from higher timeframes. The source does not declare a specific market or instrument as a restriction.

Is the "9 years" claim in the video title verified?

No. It is the presenter's own statement about how long they have traded the approach, quoted from the video title — not a measured track record, and not a substitute for testing. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies from video sources so you can see how different presenters define the same building blocks and evaluate them yourself on historical data.

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