Three-Step 9:30 Range Scalping

# Three-Step 9:30 Range Scalping Strategy Rules

## Step 1: Mark the Levels (9:30 AM)
- Wait for the **first 5-minute candle** starting at 9:30 AM EST to close
- Mark the **HIGH** and **LOW** of this candle
- Switch to **1-minute chart** for trading

## Step 2: Find Your Entry (Trade for 1 hour only: 9:30-10:30 AM)

### BREAK Entry
- Need: **Fair Value Gap (FVG)** + **ANY** of the 3 FVG candles closes outside the range
- FVG = Gap between candle wicks (3-candle pattern)

### TRAP Entry
- Need: Break outside range → Retest back inside → Close back outside again

### REVERSAL Entry
- Need: Failed break in one direction → Opposite FVG back into the range

## Step 3: Trade Management

### Stop Loss:
- **Break/Trap**: Low/High of first candle that closed outside the range
- **Reversal**: Low/High of first candle in the FVG pattern

### Take Profit:
- **Always 2:1 risk-to-reward ratio**
- If you risk $100, you make $200

## Key Rules:
- ✅ **Body close** outside range (not just wicks)
- ✅ Trade on **1-minute chart** only
- ✅ Only trade **first hour** (9:30-10:30 AM EST)
- ✅ **Fixed 2:1** take profit every time
- ✅ One strategy, stay consistent

**That's it. No complicated indicators, no higher timeframe bias, no guesswork.**