Introducing CRT

If you observe the market calmly, there is something that repeats constantly: after a strong movement, the price returns. It returns to the origin. It returns to the range. It returns to the point where it all began. No matter the asset, the timeframe, or the news of the day. The question is not if…

For years the same idea has been repeated: that the news moves the market. That a macro data point, an interest rate decision, or a press conference explains why the price goes up or down. But if you really trade, you know something doesn’t add up. “Good” news with violent drops. “Bad” news with aggressive…

If you have been trading for a while, this has surely happened to you: you see a clear, clean, “textbook” breakout. The price breaks an important level, you enter convinced… and minutes later the market reverses and takes you out. Once might seem like bad luck. But when it happens over and over again, it…

1. TraderSZ TraderSZ is one of the most respected price action traders in the English-speaking world, and although he does not label his methodology explicitly as Candle Range Theory (CRT), his entire framework is based on the same structural concepts: daily bias, manipulation of the initial range, liquidity grabs, and expansion out of engineered ranges….

The intraday truth nobody really talks about If you’ve been trading for a while, you’ve probably heard things like: All of that is true…but it’s only a small part of the story. Go to the CRT candle openings table The real engine behind intraday movement isn’t the sessions.It’s the opening of candles across all timeframes….

Most people overcomplicate Candle Range Theory the first time they hear about it. I did the same.But after years of studying the algorithmic behaviour of price, I realised something simple: CRT isn’t a system of 20 rules — it’s a way of reading how the market expands, liquidates, and returns to equilibrium. Below I’ll walk…