The One Candle Trading Strategy
2 Jan 2026 · 2 min

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Jesse Rogers teaches the first candle rule: mark the high and low of the 9:30-9:35am EST candle, wait for a break confirmed by a fair value gap on the one-minute chart, then enter on an engulfing candle. He uses a 3:1 risk-to-reward ratio and says the strategy made over $100,000 in one month.
Questions this video answers
Between 9:30 and 9:35am EST (New York Standard Time).
One-minute chart.
A fair value gap.
An engulfing candle that engulfs the retest candle which traded into the fair value gap.
One tick below the low (of the reference structure).











