ERL ♻️ IRL, CRT Strategy

Shared by a BacktestingMax trader on 28 Oct 2026

• Profit factor: 8.17
• Win rate: 80.0%
• Trades: 5
• Backtests: 2

1H ERL ♻️ IRL for Direction and CRT for Confirmation & Entries

Entry rules

1. 1H ERL ♻️ IRL
2. 1H POIs (FVG, OB, H/L)
3. POI Retest -> CRT Pattern (15M OR 1H)
4. 15M CRT : 1M TBS OR 1H CRT : 5M TBS

Invalidation

1. CRT Pattern outside POI is not valid
2. CRT without TBS is not valid

Stop loss and take profit

1. SL : Above / Below CRT Pattern
2. TP : 2R

Inside the app

Opening this strategy in BacktestingMax shows the full record behind the numbers above, on a free account: every trade with entry, exit, size and P&L plus CSV and Excel export; a bar-by-bar replay of the author's own session on 1-minute history; Monte Carlo projections that reshuffle the trade sequence; the equity curve against buy-and-hold; advanced statistics including Sharpe and Sortino ratios, expectancy, payoff ratio, recovery factor, maximum drawdown and longest time underwater; a day-by-day P&L calendar; and behavioural analysis covering revenge trading, position-size chasing, long/short bias and the hours and days it actually made money.

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Figures come from backtests run by the author inside BacktestingMax. Past performance is not indicative of future results, and nothing here is financial advice.