This 1 Minute Scalping Strategy Works Everyday (Stupid Simple and Proven)
Loses money
No edge after realistic trading costs
- trades tested
- 2,949
- per trade after costs
- -3.71bp
- winners
- 34%
- years of data
- 9.7
Opening range breakout: mark the high and low of the first 15-minute candle of the New York open (09:30), wait for a 5-minute candle to close outside it, then drop to the 1-minute chart and enter in the break direction. The breakout entry is taken on the close of the 1-minute candle that completes a fair value gap (displacement), stop beyond the gap's middle candle, fixed 1:2 target; a retest entry and a reversal entry are alternatives.
The exact rules we tested
- 01Instrument: NVDA | Signal timeframe: 1m | Direction: both
- 02Session: 09:30-16:00 (exchange tz), flat at session end
- 03No new entries after 11:30
- 04LONG sequence: 1. c5 crosses above or.high THEN 2. (gap.bull > 0) AND (close > or.high) (within 15 bars)
- 05SHORT sequence: 1. c5 crosses below or.low THEN 2. (gap.bear > 0) AND (close < or.low) (within 15 bars)
- 06Higher-timeframe inputs (closed-bar values only, no repaint): c5 on 5m
- 07Entry: market at the signal bar's close
- 08Stop: at the prevlow (longs) / prevhigh (shorts) level
- 09Target: 2.0R (risk-multiple of stop)
- 10Entry fills at the signal bar's close (market-on-close)