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The Only 1 Minute Scalping Strategy You Need (Works Everyday) — Transcript

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  1. 0:00Most traders think scalping means
  2. 0:01predicting where the next big move
  3. 0:03starts. That's a recipe for getting
  4. 0:06chopped up. The truth is, scalping is
  5. 0:08about catching a tiny predictable piece
  6. 0:11of a move that's already happening.
  7. 0:13You're not the hero of the story, you're
  8. 0:15the pickpocket. You take a small slice
  9. 0:18and you walk away. So, here's what you
  10. 0:20actually need: the one-minute chart, a
  11. 0:23basic read on trend structure, which
  12. 0:25just means knowing what a higher high
  13. 0:27and a lower low look like, and the
  14. 0:29Fibonacci retracement tool. That's it.
  15. 0:31No moving averages, no oscillators, no
  16. 0:34paid signal group. Now, let me tell you
  17. 0:37why Fibonacci works so well on the one
  18. 0:39minute. The ratios, the .382, the .5,
  19. 0:43the .618, show up everywhere in nature.
  20. 0:47Seashells, galaxies, sunflowers, even
  21. 0:50the human face. And for whatever reason,
  22. 0:52the market respects them, too. Price
  23. 0:55pulls back into these zones like they're
  24. 0:56magnetic, then continues the trend. Now,
  25. 1:00you might be wondering, why not just
  26. 1:01take the .382? It's closer to entry.
  27. 1:05It's a tighter pullback. You get in
  28. 1:06faster. Sure, but the tradeoff is
  29. 1:09brutal. Your stop is wider relative to
  30. 1:12your target, and price tends to
  31. 1:14overshoot the .382 just enough to make
  32. 1:16it the worst level of the three. After
  33. 1:19enough backtesting, the truth is
  34. 1:21consistent. The cleanest setups, the
  35. 1:23highest hit rate, and the best risk to
  36. 1:26reward all live in the same place: the
  37. 1:29range between the .5 and the
  38. 1:31.618. That's the gold zone. That's where
  39. 1:35we hunt. Here's how the setup works.
  40. 1:37Step one, find the microtrend on the one
  41. 1:40minute. In a downtrend, you want to see
  42. 1:43lower highs forming. In an uptrend,
  43. 1:45higher lows. Not philosophical lower
  44. 1:48highs, visible ones. If you can't see
  45. 1:50the trend, there is no trade. Step two,
  46. 1:54wait for a break of structure. That's
  47. 1:56the moment snaps the most recent swing
  48. 1:59point and signals that the trend is
  49. 2:01paused, not over. The break is your
  50. 2:04green light to start looking for a
  51. 2:05retracement entry.
  52. 2:07Step three, pull up your Fibonacci tool.
  53. 2:11In a downtrend, draw from the last lower
  54. 2:13high all the way through the break down
  55. 2:16to the start of the retracement. Same
  56. 2:18logic flipped in an uptrend.
  57. 2:20Step four,
  58. 2:21wait. Don't chase. Let price come back
  59. 2:25into the gold zone, the area between the
  60. 2:27.5 and the .618.
  61. 2:29Step five, enter in the direction of the
  62. 2:32original trend.
  63. 2:34Short in a downtrend, long in an
  64. 2:36uptrend.
  65. 2:37You can even split the difference and
  66. 2:39drop a limit order between the two
  67. 2:40levels so you don't have to baby sit the
  68. 2:42chart. Stop loss goes at the 1.0 level.
  69. 2:45Take profit goes at the previous swing
  70. 2:47low if you're short, previous swing high
  71. 2:49if you're long. That structure alone
  72. 2:51gives you at least a one to one risk to
  73. 2:53reward and most of the time it lands you
  74. 2:56closer to one to 1.5. The .618 entry is
  75. 3:00the sweet spot. Tighter stop, better
  76. 3:02reward, cleaner setups.
  77. 3:05Pause the video right here. Six rules,
  78. 3:07screenshot them. That's the entire
  79. 3:09setup.
  80. 3:10One,
  81. 3:11one minute chart.
  82. 3:13Two,
  83. 3:14trade with the current micro trend.
  84. 3:16Three, wait for break of structure.
  85. 3:19Four, enter on the .5 or the .618.
  86. 3:24Five, enter at the previous swing low or
  87. 3:27high.
  88. 3:28Six, and if momentum stalls or the
  89. 3:30market is dead, walk away. The setup
  90. 3:33needs movement.
  91. 3:35Now, here's the secret. But first, I
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  128. 4:52When you set your take profit at the
  129. 4:53previous swing low or high, don't be
  130. 4:56greedy. Don't try to ride the move in
  131. 4:58the next week. The market doesn't care
  132. 5:01about your dreams. Watch this. When
  133. 5:03price comes down and taps the previous
  134. 5:05low, there's a really good chance it's
  135. 5:07going to bounce and form a double
  136. 5:09bottom. That's just how the 1-minute
  137. 5:11behaves. Aggressive traders try to
  138. 5:13squeeze another 20 pips out of it and
  139. 5:16end up watching the trade reverse all
  140. 5:17the way back to entry, sometimes past
  141. 5:20entry. So, you do the opposite. You go
  142. 5:23in already assuming a double bottom is
  143. 5:25going to form. You set your target a
  144. 5:27hair before the previous low. You let
  145. 5:29the trade close on its own. You collect
  146. 5:32your 1 and 1/2 R, and you stop staring
  147. 5:34at the screen.
  148. 5:36Think about what that actually means in
  149. 5:37numbers. A 1.5 R trade that closes 90%
  150. 5:41of the time crushes a 2 R trade that
  151. 5:44closes 60% of the time, every time. The
  152. 5:48math isn't close. Yet, most traders
  153. 5:51chase the bigger number because it feels
  154. 5:53braver. There's nothing brave about
  155. 5:55giving back a winner. The bravest thing
  156. 5:57on the 1-minute is taking profit while
  157. 5:59the market still wants to give it to
  158. 6:01you.
  159. 6:02This one mental shift will save you more
  160. 6:04trades than any indicator ever will.
  161. 6:07>> [music]
  162. 6:07>> You're not trying to be right about how
  163. 6:09far the move goes. You're trying to be
  164. 6:11right about taking profit before the
  165. 6:13market changes its mind. That's secret
  166. 6:16number one.
  167. 6:17Let me show you how this looks in
  168. 6:18practice on this pair.
  169. 6:20You see price rejecting a level. You
  170. 6:22mark it. You see another rejection and a
  171. 6:24clean break of the trend line. That's
  172. 6:26your break of structure. You pull your
  173. 6:28fib from the top of the move to the
  174. 6:30bottom. You drop a limit order at the
  175. 6:32point 618, stop at the 1.0, take profit
  176. 6:36just above the previous low. Trade
  177. 6:38fills. 7 minutes later, you're done. And
  178. 6:42if you want to keep going, you can. As
  179. 6:44long as that trade is alive, you repeat
  180. 6:46the process. Every new break of
  181. 6:48structure gets its own Fibonacci. Every
  182. 6:50retrace into the gold zone is a new
  183. 6:52opportunity. Some of these trades close
  184. 6:55in 2 minutes. You stack them up. A
  185. 6:57handful of clean wins in a row. Nothing
  186. 7:00crazy, just clean execution. But
  187. 7:02eventually, the market turns. And that's
  188. 7:05where most scalpers blow up. They keep
  189. 7:07forcing the same direction even though
  190. 7:09the structure has flipped. Don't do
  191. 7:11that. Which brings us to secret number
  192. 7:14two.
  193. 7:15Your losing trade isn't just a loss,
  194. 7:17it's a signal.
  195. 7:19When you take a clean setup, perfect
  196. 7:21break of structure, perfect gold zone
  197. 7:23entry, and you still get stopped out,
  198. 7:25the market is telling you something.
  199. 7:27It's telling you the trend you were
  200. 7:29trading is done. The flip is happening.
  201. 7:32That stop loss is your invitation to
  202. 7:34start hunting in the opposite direction.
  203. 7:38If you were shorting all morning and the
  204. 7:39last trade stopped you out, stop looking
  205. 7:42for shorts, start looking for longs.
  206. 7:44Same setup, same rules, just flipped.
  207. 7:47This is how you stay on the right side
  208. 7:49of the market without trying to call the
  209. 7:51top or the bottom. You let the structure
  210. 7:53tell you when to switch sides. One
  211. 7:55losing trade ends the cycle. The next
  212. 7:58trend pays for it many times over.
  213. 8:00That's why even a losing day on this
  214. 8:02strategy can still finish green. Picture
  215. 8:05this. You take a series of shorts in a
  216. 8:07downtrend. The winners stack up to 6%.
  217. 8:11Then the trend flips. You take one
  218. 8:13losing trade. That's down 1%. You're
  219. 8:16still up 5% on the day. Some of those
  220. 8:19trades closed in 2 minutes, some in 10.
  221. 8:22None of them took more than 15. And you
  222. 8:25didn't predict a single big move.
  223. 8:28You just kept taking the small
  224. 8:29predictable pieces and you let the stop
  225. 8:31out tell you when to flip. That is
  226. 8:341-minute scalping at its finest.
  227. 8:37All right, that's the strategy. Two
  228. 8:39secrets, one tool, one timeframe.
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  244. 9:14Thanks for watching and I'll see you
  245. 9:15guys next time.

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