Higher-low continuation
An uptrend is a series of higher highs and higher lows. This strategy waits for a new higher low to form, then enters as price turns up from it.
Watch it play out
Replay plays a setup this strategy already finished and stops so you can call it. Live watches for the next one on Bitcoin (BTC-USD, 1-minute candles). Either way a setup is marked only when a candle closes, then it's locked and plays out to its target or its stop. Nothing to trade here.
How the live chart applies the rules
- 1-minute candles. The chart runs every strategy on 1-minute Bitcoin candles from Coinbase, whatever timeframe the strategy page suggests. Times are New York time.
- Closed candles only. Levels, triggers and stops are read when a candle closes. Entry is that candle's close.
- One setup at a time. While a setup is playing out, the same strategy doesn't start another.
- Sensible risk only. A setup counts only if its stop is between a quarter and 6 times the average candle range (ATR 14) from entry (wider for session-range strategies), and its target is at least 0.75R away.
- How a setup ends. At its target or its stop. If one candle touches both, the stop counts. A setup also ends at any exit its page names, and after 120 candles (longer for trend and session strategies) if nothing is hit.
- Replays. A replay plays the latest setup this strategy finished on the live chart's recent history, sped up. It's the same setup the live chart confirmed, with the same entry, stop and result. If the strategy hasn't finished one recently, the replay uses example candles and says so.
- The trading day. A day runs 6:00 PM to 6:00 PM ET, like futures. VWAP restarts at 6:00 PM, and "yesterday" means the last full trading day.
How Higher-low continuation works
- 1Where's the level?
- The most recent confirmed higher low.
- 2What's the trigger?
- A candle closes above the high of the candle that made the higher low.
- 3Where is it wrong?
- Just below the higher low.
- 4Where does it end?
- The previous swing high if it is at least 1R away, otherwise 2R.
- Markets
- Futures, Stocks, Forex, Crypto
- Timeframes
- 5m to 4h
- Sessions
- Any
- Also called
- market structure trend, HH/HL
What it means
An uptrend is a series of higher highs and higher lows. This strategy waits for a new higher low to form, then enters as price turns up from it.
How it is confirmed without repainting
A swing low is confirmed only after 3 candles to its right have closed higher. It is drawn at that point, never earlier.
When it fails
A candle closes below the last higher low, which breaks the structure.
Education only. Prop Firm Duel does not provide trade signals or financial advice. This page explains how the strategy is commonly defined. Past results never guarantee future results.
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