✨ Only Beginners Trading Strategy to Help You Become a Pro Trader in Less Than 1 Hour

A scalping strategy used daily to capitalize on opportunities that emerge in the first few hours after the market opens. This strategy is simple, easy to repeat, and has been tested on futures markets such as MES and MNQ, but in this article, I will focus specifically on the crypto market.

This strategy consists of three simple steps, focused on identifying high-liquidity areas that large institutions commonly use:

📍 Step 1: Start Off On 1 Day Timeframe

On the Daily timeframe, the only 2 lines you actually need to know:

• Previous Day High (PDH)

• Previous Day Low (PDL)

These levels form the foundation for all intraday trading decisions later in the session.

In this article, I will use Solana $SOL ( ▲ 1.28% ) as an example to employ my strategy.

Why do these levels matter so much in intraday trading?

Because retail traders place stop losses there. Breakout traders chase those levels, and institutions know that liquidity is sitting here. Hence, you’re marking them to understand where stop orders are stacked.

When price approaches PDH or PDL during the New York session, price may sweep liquidity and reverse, or it accelerates after a grab. Both scenarios are tradable if you wait for confirmation later.

Now you drop to the 15-minute chart:

Now, you’re only interested in FVGs formed during the NY opening window, roughly 8:00–9:30 AM New York time, which is the most active period for intraday trading.

An FVG forms when:

• Candle 1 high does not overlap with candle 3 low in a bullish sequence

• Or candle 1 low does not overlap with candle 3 high in a bearish sequence

This imbalance tells you which orders were left unfilled

What you care about most is the midpoint of that FVG, also called the consequential encroachment.

That midpoint is where price often retraces to rebalance. You’ll see it again and again if you replay charts.

🕯️ Step 2: Find General Signals To Enter Into The Market

Now comes the part everyone loves: Execution!

But notice something important. You gotta drop to the 1-minute chart after price has reacted to one of your key levels.

Zoom in and identify the nearest trend in the price pattern, making sure you mark at least 2 key touchpoints that form this trendline.

Why? You can go back and review my 3 Steps for Beginners Day Trading Strategy article to learn more.

This is what separates a scalping strategy from random clicking.

Trendline Break and Change of Character

On the 1-minute chart, you draw a simple trendline following the short-term structure.

Everything you gotta do now is wait.

Eventually, you need see a strong displacement candle break that trendline. Not a weak overlap candle. I mean a real push.

Then you look for Change of Character (CHoCH):

In simple terms:

• It fails to make a new low

• It breaks above a prior swing high

Furthermore, the CHoCH must also create a new Fair Value Gap on the 1-minute chart because this confirms that the change in structure is driven by strong and urgent order flow, not random noise. When price breaks structure with a large, fast-moving candle and leaves an FVG behind, it shows that price moved too quickly for orders to be filled evenly, creating an imbalance between buyers and sellers.

This kind of displacement is typically associated with institutional activity, as large players need to execute size quickly and are willing to push price to do so. In short, CHoCH tells you structure has shifted, but CHoCH plus a newly formed FVG confirms that real institutional momentum is behind the move.

Entry Point, Stop Loss, and Initial Target:

• Entry at the 50% of the new FVG

• Stop loss outside the candle that created the FVG

• Initial risk-to-reward set at 1:4

Here is how it look in 15-min chart:

The reason this strategy often produces a 1:4 or higher risk-to-reward ratio is simple: the natural take-profit level usually aligns with the origin of a previous Fair Value Gap. After price creates a new FVG through displacement, it commonly retraces to the 50% level for entry, then continues moving in the same direction to rebalance an older FVG left behind earlier.

Since the stop loss is placed very tight, just outside the candle that formed the new FVG, the risk is small. Meanwhile, the distance from the entry point to the start of the prior FVG is much larger, which naturally creates a high R:R without forcing unrealistic targets.

🎯 Step 3. Managing the Trade

Once you’re in the trade, your mindset gotta change. It is critical for survival in intraday trading, where capital protection matters more than prediction.

You should stop focusing on profit and start thinking about risk removal.

Identify break of structure - Your risk-off signal:

After entry, you need to wait for a Break of Structure (BOS):

That means:

• Price pushes away from your entry

• Pulls back, often close to your entry level

• Then pushes again and closes above the previous pivot

Once that happens, you move your stop loss to the First Entry Point - aka Break Even Point.

Now the trade is risk-free, and when price reaches the target level, you should take partial profits of around 50 - 70% to lock in gains while allowing the remaining position to continue running.

For the remaining position, leave it open.

This time, move the target price to the next higher historical Fair Value Gap, and adjust the stop loss to the most recent Break of Structure that has just formed above.

Open-Ended Targets:

I will stop here and fully close the position if there are no additional Fair Value Gaps ahead or if the daily target is reached with the desired leverage.

However, if you choose to continue holding the trade, simply repeat the same process as above:

• Identify an older Fair Value Gap

• Confirm a new Break of Structure

• Move the Stop Loss up to the newly formed BoS

And that’s the real edge of this scalping strategy. Small predefined risk, unlimited upside when conditions align.

If you look closely, you’ll realize that even with leverage, the profits are far from small. With 10x leverage, we’re already looking at a minimum return of around 35% in just over one hour of trading. If you consistently apply this approach to intraday trading 20 days a month, the compounding effect becomes significant.

I’ve actually mentioned this strategy many times before, and you can read those previous breakdowns here. If you want more content like this and deeper explanations around intraday trading and scalping strategies, make sure you follow along and stay updated.

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