Trendlines Strategy

Master the Trendlines Strategy with Price Action. Learn effective entry/exit criteria, multi-timeframe analysis, and avoid common mistakes for consistent tradin

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Trendline Trading

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: Monthly, Weekly, Daily, 4 hour, 1 minute
  • Markets: Futures

Indicators used

  • Trendlines

Source video

Decoded from: How I’m profitable with ONLY Trendlines by Tori Trades — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:44 - Importance of clear entry and exit criteria
  • 1:00 - Entry criteria options mentioned
  • 1:25 - Mistake: not having set entry/exit criteria
  • 1:50 - Mistake: only drawing trendlines on lower timeframes
  • 2:00 - Top-down analysis explained (monthly to lower TFs)
  • 3:00 - Connecting higher timeframe trendlines to lower timeframe trendlines
  • 3:45 - Patience and confirmation for entries

Strategy overview

A trendline is simply a sloped line connecting successive highs or lows, used as a moving reference for trend direction and invalidation. What makes this entry worth its own page is the word ONLY in the video's title: Tori Trades frames the video, "How I'm profitable with ONLY Trendlines", as a single-tool workflow — no oscillator confirmation, no indicator stack — which shifts the entire burden of the method onto how the lines are drawn and where they are drawn from.

The answer the video gives is top-down analysis. Its timeframe list runs from Monthly and Weekly through Daily and 4-hour down to the 1-minute chart, and the walkthrough is explicitly sequential: establish the higher-timeframe lines first, then descend, then connect those higher-timeframe trendlines to the ones visible on the lower timeframes. The mistake it calls out by name is the inverse habit — drawing trendlines only on lower timeframes — where a line looks clean in isolation but has no relationship to any structure a larger participant is trading against. In that framing, a 1-minute trendline is not a signal in itself; it is only meaningful as the fine-grained expression of a level that already exists higher up.

The video's opening minutes are spent not on drawing at all but on criteria: having entry and exit conditions defined in advance, and the failure mode of trading a trendline without them. That ordering is the tell — with a single discretionary tool, the rules around the tool are what separate a method from freehand line-drawing. No rule extraction is available for this entry, so this page covers the concept and the structure of the video's approach rather than a reconstructed rule set; the source video remains the reference for the specifics.

Topics

trendlines strategy · price action · trading strategy · pine script · tradingview strategy · futures trading strategy · multi timeframe analysis · swing trading · daily trading strategy · 4 hour strategy · 1 minute strategy · technical analysis · market analysis

Frequently asked questions

What is top-down analysis in trendline trading?

Top-down analysis means establishing trendlines on the highest timeframes first — monthly and weekly — and then working down through daily, 4-hour and intraday charts, so that lower-timeframe lines are drawn in the context of structure that already exists above them rather than in isolation.

Why is drawing trendlines only on lower timeframes considered a mistake?

Because a line that looks clean on a short timeframe may have no relationship to any higher-timeframe structure. The source video identifies this as a common error and argues that lower-timeframe trendlines should connect back to levels established on larger charts.

Can trendlines be traded without any indicators?

That is the premise of this video — a workflow built on trendlines alone. The trade-off is that with no confirming tool, everything depends on consistent line placement and on entry and exit criteria being defined before the trade, which is where the video spends its opening minutes.

What timeframes does this approach cover?

The entry spans monthly, weekly, daily, 4-hour and 1-minute charts. The higher timeframes set the trend context and the lower ones are used for execution once the higher-timeframe lines are in place.

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