Single-speaker YouTube tutorial (Jesse Rogers) presenting a "one candle" day-trading method built around the first 5-minute candle (9:30am EST). The method: wait for the first 5‑minute candle to close, mark its high and low as the day's key levels, switch to a 1‑minute chart for entries, require a gap (fair value gap) through a level to show momentum, enter after a retest confirmed by an engulfing candle, place the stop at the first candle of the fair value gap, and use a fixed 3:1 risk-to-reward target. The clip ends with a CTA to save the video.
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The first five minutes of the trading day have more volume than any other 5 minute period of the day. Yet most traders completely ignore this one candle. And that is exactly why I built my entire strategy around it. Here is what that one candle strategy looks like. First, get to your desk at the same time every single day. 9:30am Eastern Standard Time. Start out on the five minute chart and wait for the first candle to close. This one candle is going to give you everything that you need for your entire trading day. Because once it closes, you're going to mark out the high and the low and those are your only key levels that you need. Next, drop down to the one minute chart. Now this is where we're going to find our trade entry. And here is where most people mess this up. So pay very close attention. When price approaches one of these levels, you do not just jump in. You need to see a very specific behavior. What you want to see is price breaking through your level and creating a gap between the candle wicks. Not just a wick through the level and definitely not a candle close. That is not enough. You need that gap formation because this tells us that the market is moving with real force. And once we see this, we know who is in control of the market, whether its buyers or sellers. And after this gap forms, we need one more confirmation to enter our trade. This helps us avoid the losing trades and stay consistent. Once the market retests the fair value gap, we need to see a candle engulfing which completely covers the retest candle. And as soon as we get that, we enter the trade. Stop goes at the first candle of the fair value gap and our target is a fixed three to one risk to reward. This means that on your winning trades, you make three times as much as you lose when you're wrong. Trust me, when you follow this exactly as I'm showing you, the market does the heavy lifting for you. Now save this video so you can study this strategy again and again.
