Jesse Rogers shares a day trading strategy called the first candle rule: mark the 9:30-9:35am EST candle's high and low on a 5-minute chart, then drop to 1-minute to find a fair value gap and enter after a retest gets engulfed. He says it made him over $100,000 in a month across nine years, with a 3:1 risk-to-reward ratio.
I only trade this one candle every single day. And I know it sounds crazy, but I ignore everything else because this one candle made me more than anything else that I've tested in my nine year career. In fact, it made me over $100,000 in a single month. But enough said, here is my boring but profitable approach. It's called the first candle rule and it does this in three simple steps. First, mark the high and the low of the five minute candle that forms between 9:30 and 9:35am EST or New York Standard Time. These two levels become your entire trading roadmap for the day. Step two, drop down to the one minute chart and wait for a break. Now, to confirm a real break, we need a specific type of behavior. And no, it's not a candle closure and it's definitely not just a wick. What we're looking for is a fair value gap. This shows us whether buyers or sellers are in control and we want to be on the right side of the market. Once this happens, we move to step number three, which is our trade entry. First, we're going to wait for price to dig into the fair value gap gap. But we're not going to enter just yet. We are waiting for one confirmation to filter out the losing trades. And that confirmation is an engulfing candle. Once the retest candle that traded into the fair value gap is engulfed, there is our entry. We place our stop one tick below the low and we target a fixed three to one risk to reward. Now I want you to save this so you can study this strategy whenever it comes time to trade. If you want me to walk you through this step by step on my upcoming live class, comment the word class and I'll send you a free ticket before they're gone.
