Trendline Strategy

Learn a simple trendline trading strategy based on price action for identifying trends and potential reversals, suitable for prop firm challenges.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Trendline Trading

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy

Source video

Decoded from: Simple Trendline Strategy to Pass Any Prop Firm Challenge (Before Christmas) by Learn Forex with Dapo Willis — watch the original

Strategy overview

A trendline strategy trades the diagonal levels drawn across a sequence of higher lows or lower highs, treating those lines as moving support and resistance rather than fixed horizontal prices. What distinguishes this entry is less the tool than the context it is pitched in: passing a prop firm evaluation.

The source video, "Simple Trendline Strategy to Pass Any Prop Firm Challenge (Before Christmas)", comes from Learn Forex with Dapo Willis and frames the setup around funded-account challenges rather than open-ended discretionary trading. That framing changes what matters. An evaluation account is judged on daily and overall drawdown limits, minimum trading days, and a profit target inside a window — constraints that reward a small number of clearly defined setups over constant activity. Trendlines fit that brief because the level is drawn in advance, which makes the invalidation point visible before entry.

The deadline in the title is a seasonal hook, but the underlying question it raises is a real one for anyone on a challenge clock: whether a time-pressured target changes how a setup should be sized and selected. This page catalogs the strategy as presented in the source video; a structured rule breakdown has not been extracted for this entry, so the video itself remains the primary reference for how the author applies it.

Topics

trendline strategy · price action · trading strategy · prop firm strategy · pine script · tradingview strategy · scalping strategy · swing trading

Frequently asked questions

What is a trendline strategy?

It is an approach that draws a diagonal line connecting successive higher lows in an uptrend or lower highs in a downtrend, then uses that line as a dynamic support or resistance reference for entries and for placing invalidation levels.

Why are trendline setups often recommended for prop firm challenges?

Because the level is defined before the trade is taken, the point at which the idea is wrong is visible in advance. That makes risk easier to size against the fixed daily and maximum drawdown limits that funded-account evaluations impose.

Does this strategy only apply to forex?

Trendlines are a price action tool and are not instrument-specific, though this particular version comes from a forex-focused channel and is presented in the context of prop firm evaluation accounts, which most commonly trade forex and index futures.

How should I evaluate a trendline strategy before using it on a funded challenge?

Test it on historical data first and, if possible, on a demo account under the same drawdown and time constraints the challenge imposes, since a rule set that works without limits can still breach an evaluation. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies like this one from video sources so you can find and assess them in one place.

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