Jesse RogersFounder and CEO of Smart Trading Blueprint

Trading This One Candle Every Single Day (Simple Method)

20 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Trade the first five-minute candle of the day: mark its high and low at 9:30-9:35am, switch to a one-minute chart, and take a breakout when price breaks that level. You need a fair value gap between the first and third candle wicks, enter on the next candle, stop at the candle that broke the range, and target 2:1 reward-to-risk.

Questions this video answers

Between 9:30 and 9:35am.

One-minute chart.

Price breaking the high or low of the first five-minute candle, confirmed by a fair value gap (non-overlapping wicks between the first and third candles); enter on the very next candle.

At the first candle that broke out of the range (the breakout candle).

Two times the stop-loss distance (2:1 reward-to-risk).

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Trading this one candle every day is so simple that even a fifth grader could do it. And I know that sounds silly, but you'll see what I mean in a second. Because to trade this, you don't need any complicated concepts. All you need is one pattern that repeats itself every single day. Here is what it is. I've come to call it the first candle rule. And it removes every single point of doubt from your trading day. Every morning you know exactly what you're looking for. You mark out the high and the low of the first five minute candle that forms between 9:30 and 9:35am and then you drop down to the one minute chart and wait for the high or the low to break. Now, when price breaks this level, you're not guessing if it's a good breakout. You've clearly defined what a breakout actually is. Here are the rules. It can't just be a candle closure and it definitely can't just be a wick. What you're looking for is known as a fair value gap. This is when you have a literal gap between the candles wicks, more specifically between the first candles wick and the third. Like this. See how they don't overlap? That is a fair value gap. Now the reason you need this is because it shows you the big players are pushing the market in that direction and we want to be on the same side of the market as them. You enter on the very next candle and place your stop at the first candle that broke out of the range. And your target is always the same, just twice the distance of your stop loss, meaning it's a two to one risk to reward. Now comment the word join if you want to learn more about trading for free and I'll send you an invite to my community.