The 1 Minute Scalping Strategy (That Actually Works)

This one minute scalping strategy consistently gives me days like this, this and this. And I'm about to show you exactly how. And to prove that this isn't just theory, I'm going to walk you through real live examples over the past week and do a one month back test to prove to you that it works. By the end of this video, you will have a complete step by step system for finding consistent winning trades in under 90 minutes per day. And this works in any market, whether you trade futures, stocks, forex or crypto. And this isn't some complicated strategy that needs dozens of indic. This is one simple approach that is so easy to learn that even a beginner couldn't mess it up. But before we get into it, I have to ask you something and I need you to be honest with yourself. Do you jump from strategy to strategy without ever giving anything enough time to actually work? If the answer was yes, then you know what you need isn't more information. It's just a simpler way to trade one proven plan that you can actually stick to that works in any market condition and and is so simple that even a complete beginner could execute it consistently. And that is exactly what I'm going to give you today. We're going to cover three things. First, I'm going to show you the foundation, the one daily signal that happens at the same time every single day. And this contains all the information you need. That way you can stop drowning in complicated analysis. Second, you're going to learn how to read the market's true intentions. That way you can confidently know which direction the market will go. And last, but definitely not least, I'm going to give you the exact entry system that tells you when to get in, where to put your stop loss and most importantly, when to take profit. That way there's no guesswork and you have a clear mechanical process to finding consistent winning trades. And after that, I'm going to walk you through multiple real live examples. That way you see exactly how this plays out in the market and feel confident applying it yourself. And by the end of today, you won't just have a strategy, you'll have one simple approach that helps you finally become a consistent trader. And if you've been struggling up until this point is then it's most likely because of one simple reason. You overcomplicate everything. You have dozens of strategies, dozens of indicators, multiple time frames and conflicting signals all over the place and the result is paralysis. You freeze up, miss opportunities and ultimately lose money and fail at trading. And that is exactly what makes this strategy so powerful, because it's the cure to overthinking. All you need is one signal at one specific time of day. And, and you have everything that you need in order to find consistent winning trades. And when trading this strategy, you want to get to your desk right at 9:30am Eastern Standard Time, also known as New York Time. Now, most people don't realize this, but the first five minutes after 9:30am consistently have more volume than any other five minute period of the entire day. And I want you to think about what that means. If more trading happened in the first five minutes, then everything, any other five minute period of the day, then the high of that candle represents the exact price where the maximum selling pressure hit the market and the low represents where the maximum buying pressure stepped in. These two price levels are where the most intense battle between buyers and sellers took place during the highest volume period of the day. And that's why they're so important for everything that happens through the rest of the day. But let me be clear, these levels are completely useless if you don't know how to execute using them. And what I'm about to show you next is what separates profitable traders from everyone else. Now that you have your two key levels from the five minute chart, how do we know which way the market is going to go? This is where we're going to drill down for more precision. After this first five minute candle closes and you have your two levels, you're going to switch to the one minute chart. Now, we do this because we are scalpers. We need to see the market's intention in real time. What you're looking for is a clear and aggressive move through either the high or the low of your initial 5 minute range. But not just any move. You need to see a fair value gap. A fair value gap is simply a three candle pattern where the middle candle moves with such force that it leaves a gap between the wick of the first candle and the wick of the third. And this isn't just a pattern. It is a sign of what direction the big players are pushing the market. And it shows that one side, whether it's buyers or sellers, is in control. And what we're looking for is at least one of the three candles that form the fair value gap to close beyond the initial 5 minute high or the low. And this is your confirmation that the breakout is real. It's the market telling you who is in control, whether it's buyers or sellers. And in this example, it's buyers because they were able to push price with force outside of this initial high volume range that's formed in the first five minutes of the day, which blasts through the high, which was the area where we had the most selling pressure up to this point. And this is how we find our direction for the day. But knowing the direction alone isn't how we get paid as traders. In order to make money as a trader, you have to be able to consistently execute and know how to avoid the losing trades, which is exactly what we're about to go over next. So you have your levels, you've seen the aggressive move and the fair value gap is confirming the direction. Now the real question is how do we find a high quality entry and filter out the losing trades? After most, most explosive moves, the market almost always pulls back to retest the area that it just broke. Now a lot of newer traders are going to see this pullback and start panicking. But professional traders see this as a gift, a second chance to get in at a much better price. And in this retest there is one simple trick to avoid the losing trades. So yes, you're going to wait for price to pull back into the fair value gap, but you do not enter trades just because it touches the gap. You need one more final confirmation. The first part of your trade entry is this engulfing candle. Now if you didn't know already, an engulfing candle is just a candlestick pattern where the body of a candle completely engulfs or covers the body of the previous candle. Now in this example and for this strategy, the candle that needs to be engulfed is the retest candle, the one that traded into the fair value gap. And as soon as you get this engulfing candle, you are good to enter the trade. Your stop loss would go one tick below the low since this is a buy or a long trade since we broke out of the high. Now if it were a sell trade, you would put your stop one tick above the retest candle. Now I'm going to show you some examples here on a chart here in a second. But just remember that for now and then for your target, you're just going to set a 3 to 1 risk to reward target. This is a purely mechanical system. You don't have to look on the higher time frames for key levels. There is no room for emotion, no room for guesswork. And this is why this strategy is so powerful, because it is clear cut, one simple approach that you can take into the markets every day. But even if I give you this proven strategy, are you the Type of trader who is going to stick to this plan day in and day out. Well, I hope the answer is yes, because without that, no strategy in the world will make you a successful trader. Now I've given you the rules, but as they say, knowledge without implementation is worthless and most traders freeze whenever they get in front of the live market. And that's exactly why we are about to walk through multiple recent examples over the last week, both bullish and bearish. And we're going to back test this over the last month to prove to you that it works. Now let's go ahead and hop over to Trading View so we can take these trades together in real time. But before we jump over to the examples, make sure to join my free trading community. Using the link down in the description inside, I post the trades that I'm taking, my outlook on the market and I even have a full free course inside. So click the link in the description and join my free trading community. As you can see here it is September 30, 2025 and we are on gold. Now I'm going to show you some examples on indices like NASDAQ and es. But for this example we're going to be using gold. As I told you at the beginning of this video, this strategy works across all markets. So the first step is always to get to our desk right at 9:30am Eastern Standard Time. As you can see with this candle, that is what time it is in this example. So step number one is to mark out our levels and build the foundation of the trade. Now in order to mark out our levels, we're going to go over here to the left on Trading View and you're going to select this trend line tool and then we're going to mark out the high and the low of that first five minute candle. After that we're going to head down to the 1 minute time frame to look to confirm our direction with a fair value gap. Now we want to be patient for this and don't ever just rush into trades because what a lot of traders will do is they'll see this wick or maybe even a candle closure and they start to get FOMO and this is what will kill you and cause you to take bad trades. So as you can see here, we just have to wait for another minute and we get our fair value gap. But still we're not going to enter the trade. What we are looking for again is a dig back down into this fair value gap which you only had to wait one minute. Now I know for, for a lot of traders it seems like that can be an eternity sometimes. But you only had to wait for one minute in this example and then as you can see very, very quickly we start to get a move out of this gap. Now a lot of traders again are going to FOMO in through here. You have to be patient and you have to wait for this engulfing candle, which is that first candle that traded into the fair value gap to get engulfed. So look right here, this line is where we need a candle closure above. As you can see, we got our engulfing because this candle closed above that retest candle's body. So at that time you're good to enter the trade and you're going to take your stop loss and put it one tick below the candles that dug into the fair value gap. Now for our target, it is very simple. We are just going to target a fixed 3 to 1 risk reward. Now if you're wondering how I got this tool, I went over here to the left, clicked long position which is for buys, short position. I'll show you in the bearish example. But this tool will actually show you the risk to reward and calculate it for you. So we've got our level set for this trade. As you can see, we have $800 at risk to make $2,400. And at this time you can sit back and, and let the market do the heavy lifting for you with confidence, knowing that you're in a high probability trade. Now this trade took a couple minutes to play out before it hit the target. So it took about 24 minutes, which isn't a bad workday if you ask me, especially making it $2,400 in. Oh, it actually is $2,400 in 24 minutes. I promise you I did not pre plan that. Now let's take a look at example number two. Right here we have NASDAQ on the five minute time frame and the date was September 24, 2025. So remember, the first step is just to wait for that 9:30am candle. Then we're going to take our trendline tool, we're going to mark out our trading levels for the day. Yes, it is literally that simple. You don't have to worry about anything other than these two levels. Then we're going to go down to the one minute chart and we are going to wait for our break with a fair value gap. Now guys, I know this kind of seems boring, but if there's one thing that I've learned over the last nine years that I've been a trader. It is that boring. Trading is profitable trading. And yes, it may not be the, you know, wild exciting times that you might have dreamt of when you first got into trading, but this is what's actually going to turn you into a profitable trader. So as we can see here, we've got our fair value gap, but now we need to wait. Remember, no FOMO over this way. So we've got our trade into the fair value gap, but now we need to wait for an engulfing. So as you can see, the market prints another candle higher. Prints another candle and this one was not higher and this was our engulfing candle. So at this time we want to enter a short position. So you go over here on trading view, you click short position and then go ahead and enter the trade. You put your stop one tick above, remember, one tick above the candle that dug deepest into the fair value gap. And then from there we are going to target our fixed 3 to 1 risk to reward. So at this time you're good to sit back and let the market do the heavy lifting for you. Now this trade took a little while to get to the target, but that's okay because for this strategy you don't need to micromanage your trades. You don't have to be managing anything or really watching. You just set your levels and you can let the market do its thing. As you can see, the market hit its target. And again, while some of these times can feel like an eternity to newer traders, an hour and a half or a little less than 90 minute workday is not bad, especially when you're walking away with a thousand bucks. So you've learned the strategy, you've seen live trade examples, but it's time to put this to the test to see how it performed over the last month. Now, really quick guys, before we go into the backtest, I need you to pause and read read this disclaimer in full. So now that we got that out of the way, let's look at the backtest results. As you can see here, we had a total p L of 10, $950. But that's not even the best part. The best part is it only had the max drawdown of $1330. And this makes this strategy perfect for prop firms. I'll leave a link down in the description where you can get an 80% off discount to win prop firm challenges by using code casper@apextraderfunding.com and over the course of a month, this netted 17 trades with a win rate of 70.5%. You now have everything you need to scout profitably in less than 90 minutes per day. But if you're anything like I was whenever I first started trading, you watch this video and go back into the market and start making the same mistakes that brought you here in the first place. Which is why I am opening up some slots to my mentorship inside. I trade live with you, sharing my screen, calling out executions and correcting your mistakes. Every single trade that you take is reviewed to make sure that you're doing things correctly and we get you on the right track. And you get access to Enigma, which is our proprietary prop firm risk management software. And then of course you get access to our trading community that has a ton of funded traders and many of them were in the same exact boat you are in right now. If you haven't figured out already, this is not your average trading discord. In fact, I'm so confident in my process that if you do everything I tell you to do and you still can get funded, I will personally sit down and trade with you until you do. Now, due to this intensive nature, I only open up limited slots for each enrollment. So if the link at the top of the description that says Join Mentorship is still working, then enrollment is open. If it doesn't work, then slots are taken and you'll have to wait for the next enrollment. So click the mentorship link at the top of the description. That way you can hop in the next live trading stream and execute with me when the market is open. Thanks for watching guys. Make sure to subscribe to the channel if this video is helpful. 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