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1 Minute Scalping Strategy You Must Know!

By Scott Geekie
November 2, 2022
3:47 pm
Technical Analysis

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Search for a 1 minute scalping strategy, and you will be flooded with results for indicator-based strategies.

While they may claim to be profitable, and we aren’t here to dispute that, what is worth questioning is that indicators, in general, are lagging behind the market, and so, would combining a lagging indicator with one of the lowest timeframes available be a wise choice?

It’s based on probabilities, you might say. So does trading an indicator-based 1 minute scalping strategy amount to flipping a coin?

With this in mind, is there a smarter way to build a 1 minute scalping strategy? Maybe if we started by looking into liquidity and how this can affect short-term price movements, we might start to find a more reliable base for our 1 minute scalping strategy.

So instead of giving you a couple of indicators and sending you on your way with false promises of untold wealth, we will look into what makes the market move and how to trade from these areas where we could reasonably expect a market reaction.

By the end of this article, we should have the makings of a profitable 1 minute scalping strategy that doesn’t rely on moving averages or magical levels but rather an understanding of liquidity and the unchanging reaction of the market from areas of liquidity.

While indicator-based strategies are prone to drawdown periods, liquidity pools will always be there, and the price will always react in these areas.

As long as there is a market to trade, there will be liquidity pools.

These will continue to move price no matter the time of day, season or what your moving average crosses are saying.

Marking Up Liquidity in 1 Minute Scalping Strategy

A look at your charts on any time frame and with some thought into the number of strategies out there and where their orders (entries and stop losses) would be waiting to be triggered, as well as the most likely levels for market orders, we can very quickly start to build an understanding of where these orders would be grouped or would start to pool together, so we can now start to mark up liquidity pools which are usually present above old highs and below old lows.

These liquidity pools are orders present above old highs or lows that smart money targets. So our 1 minute scaling strategy will look to enter before the price reaches that old high when bullish or old low when bearish.

In the above chart, you will notice that most of the time, the price moves from a key level to above an old high where the liquidity pools are present.

For example, in a Bullish scenario, we look for an old high as a target, then work out our entry on the 1 minute timeframe at an Orderblock or below an old low on the 1 minute chart.

So, how can you time your entry for this 1 minute entry with tight stop loss?

If we were to scale down to the time frame we are looking to trade and transpose these lines marking liquidity pools; we should get our answer.

1 minute Scalping Strategy 1 Minute Chart

Entering Trades on the 1 Minute Chart

In the above 1 minute chart, we can see that price runs through an old low before offering a tradeable move higher.

So for us to find an entry to trade, we would need to look at what would make for a reasonable entry point on the 1 minute chart.

So, first, we let the price run an old low. Then, secondly, we wait for the price to go above the high that formed just before running the old low that we have outlined in step 1.

Once that happens, we have a break in Market Structure. This is like a signal for us to start looking for an entry when the price pulls back into a Fib below the 50% level, ideally between 50% and 88% Fib levels.

As a target, we would be looking to target the liquidity pool that is present above the highs.

If you would like help to have a full understanding of the market structure, then the Bank Level Trading Course is the right course for you. We will go into detail about all factors that will qualify market structure and how to identify key levels for entries.

1 Minute Scalping Strategy high reward trade

By using the previously mentioned criteria, we can enter a profitable trade. For this example, we will be closing at 2 times our risk. However, with a fuller understanding of liquidity, it would be possible to set targets in areas where liquidity pools have built up and, like smart money, close our position above those old highs, increasing our profit from 2 times our risk to a little over 10 times the risk taken on the trade.

So, understanding liquidity pools is essential for this 1 minute scalping strategy because it will help us understand what we should focus on and where the price will go. Should we buy or sell? Where should our target be?

However, this 1 minute strategy is not limited to trading with the trend. In fact, you can use it to enter when the price is about to reverse using The Most Powerful Reversal Patterns in Forex You Must Know concepts. This will give you a good idea of when the reversal in price structure is a high probability.

The 1 minute Scalping Strategy Results

By Testing this model over 1 week, Monday to Thursday, trading only 1 asset, the results are as follows:

A total of 13 trades were taken, keeping to the target of 2 times risk, 10 trades ran to the profit target of 2 times risk, and 3 trades closed as a loss. So the week closed at 20R – 3R = 17R in total gained in four days. Actual profit value is dependent on your risk profile. If as an example for this model, the risk was 0.5% per trade, which means our week closed out at 8.5% in profit.

To put that kind of profit in context, If you were to join a funding program, like the 2-step challenge The Day Trading Funding Program, you probably would have achieve the profit target in just 2 weeks, even if the this funding program gives you a max of 45 calendar days to pass its challenge.

Are Scalping Strategies Worth it?

The above results speak for themselves, but one must remember this 1 minute scalping strategy has been built around Liquidity Pools, a concept that has its foundations in Smart Money Concepts, so this is not some hit-and-miss indicator-based strategy but rather one built on the trader having a solid understanding of Market Structure & Liquidity Pools.

So while this strategy is profitable and, on the surface, looks fairly simple, it would be considered too advanced for most traders as trading, firstly, such low time frames and secondly, you need to build experience to identify high probability setups.

So the results will vary based on the trader’s application of this 1 minute scalping strategy.

So if you would like to look further into how you can learn this 1 minute strategy, then join the Bank Level Trading Course.

Improving your knowledge by studying the 1 minute strategy in depth is the best way to build your knowledge of the Market Structure and, therefore, your ability to build and trade strategies like this.

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