Jesse RogersFounder and CEO of Smart Trading Blueprint

This boring strategy works every day

1 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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YouTube video by Jesse Rogers presenting a concise day-trading strategy centered on one specific 5-minute candle that forms between 9:30–9:35am. The speaker claims this single-candle setup has been the most profitable in their nine-year career and delivered over $100,000 in the past month. Steps: mark the high/low of the 5-minute candle, switch to a 1-minute chart and wait for a break characterized by a "fair value gap" (not merely a close or wick), enter on that break, place stop loss at the first candle that closed outside the 5-minute range, and use a fixed 2:1 risk-to-reward target. The presenter advises repeating daily and saving the video for testing.

Questions this video answers

The 5-minute candle that forms between 9:30 and 9:35am.

The 1-minute chart.

A break showing a 'fair value gap' (not just a candle close or a wick).

At the first candle that closed outside the 5-minute range.

A fixed 2:1 risk-to-reward.

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I only trade this one candle every single day. And I know that sounds crazy, but I ignore everything else because this one candle made me more money than anything I've tested in my nine year career. And in the last month it made me over $100,000. But enough said. Here is my stupid simple approach. First, you're going to mark the high and the low of the 5 minute candle that forms between 9:30 and 9:35am Then drop down to the 1 minute chart and look for a break. Now, to confirm a good break, you need a specific type of behavior. And no, it is not just a candle closure and it's most certainly not just a wick. What you're looking for is called a fair value gap. And this shows us that either buyers or sellers are taking control and we want to be on the right side of the market. Once this happens, you enter the trade and you put your stop loss at the first candle that closed outside the range. And as for our target, you just use a fixed 2 to 1 risk to reward. Then repeat this every single day. Now save this video for when you're testing it. That way you can ensure that you get it right.