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Free CRT Indicator for TradingView: How to Use CRT Radar Lite

CRT Radar Lite is a free Candle Range Theory indicator for TradingView with the Classic 2-6-10 model. What it marks and how to trade it.

If you've been learning Candle Range Theory by drawing boxes by hand every session, CRT Radar Lite is for you. It's a free TradingView indicator that runs the same engine as the full CRT Radar, with one model preloaded — the Classic 2-6-10 — and no settings to configure. Add it to a chart and it starts marking setups.

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What "Classic 2-6-10" means

CRT always starts with a higher-timeframe candle that acts as the range (Candle 1). The Classic model uses the 4-hour candles that open at 2 AM, 6 AM and 10 AM New York time — the candles that frame the London open, the New York open and the New York mid-morning. Some brokers' H4 candles are shifted an hour, which is why you'll also hear this called 1-5-9.

Those three candles matter because they line up with the sessions where institutional volume actually arrives. A range set at one of them, then swept at the next, is the classic CRT setup.

What the indicator marks

Lite draws the full CRT sequence for you:

  1. The Candle 1 range — the high and low of the 4-hour candle.
  2. The sweep — when Candle 2 trades beyond one side of that range.
  3. The M15 turtle soup — a 15-minute candle that runs beyond the range and closes back inside. This is the confirmation that the sweep failed.
  4. Entry requirements — the order block, inverse FVG, balanced price range or CISD that prints after the turtle soup. Anything that formed before it is ignored.
  5. OTE and Kiss of Death — the optimal trade entry zone and the deeper pullback level, so you can see where price is likely to react.
  6. Alerts — so you don't have to watch every candle.

When Candle 3 closes back through Candle 1, the setup clears off the chart, so you're not staring at stale boxes.

How to read a setup

Here's the order I'd use it in:

  • Wait for the sweep. No sweep, no setup. A range sitting untouched isn't a trade.
  • Wait for the turtle soup. This is where most beginners jump in too early. The turtle soup is what tells you the run on liquidity failed.
  • Take the entry requirement on M15. Your stop goes beyond the purge — the high (or low) the turtle soup candle ran.
  • Target the other side of Candle 1. That's where Candle 3 tends to deliver price.

Risk first

Lite shows you structure — it doesn't size your position or decide whether a trade fits your plan. Keep risk per trade small, especially on a prop firm account with daily drawdown limits.

Lite vs the full CRT Radar 2.0

Lite isn't a cut-down rewrite — it's the same engine with one model and the settings hidden. The full CRT Radar 2.0 adds:

  • More models: Model 1 (H7), Model 2 (H6), the Asia model and the London model.
  • Manual mode, where you choose the CRT and entry timeframes and add up to five of your own key levels.
  • The companion indicators — Draw Engine, DOL Map, Quarterly Cycles, Highs and Lows and the Engulfing Bar Close — built to work together on one chart.

The full suite is invite-only on TradingView, and buying the CRT Handbook includes access.

Learn the theory behind it

An indicator speeds you up; it doesn't replace understanding why a setup works. If you're new to CRT, start with what Candle Range Theory is and when CRT works best. If you want the story of how the Radar was built, read Building the CRT Radar.