1 Minute Reversal Candle Scalping Strategy

Discover a 1-minute price action scalping strategy for NQ futures, focusing on reversal candles after higher timeframe liquidity sweeps. Learn entry and exit ru

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Scalping

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: 1 minute, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, Daily, Weekly
  • Markets: NQ (Nasdaq futures)

Source video

Decoded from: The Most Powerful 1 Minute Scalping Strategy — And It's Stupidly Simple! by The Spiritual Trader — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:30 - Strategy overview: 3 requirements
  • 1:55 - Directional bias explained
  • 4:15 - Liquidity sweeps on higher timeframes
  • 6:50 - 1-minute reversal candle entry criteria
  • 8:15 - Risk management: Stop loss
  • 9:00 - Target options: New high or 2R
  • 10:40 - NQ as ideal instrument
  • 11:50 - Sessions and pairs

Strategy overview

A reversal-candle scalp waits for a single candle to reject a level and enters against the move that just ran into it — on a 1-minute chart, about as small a trigger as trading offers. The video this entry decodes, The Spiritual Trader's "The Most Powerful 1 Minute Scalping Strategy — And It's Stupidly Simple!", advertises simplicity, and its own chapter order shows where that simplicity actually lives: in the trigger, and nowhere else. The overview at 0:30 announces three requirements, but the entry criteria do not arrive until 6:50 — the minutes in between are spent on directional bias and on liquidity sweeps read from higher timeframes.

That ordering is also why a strategy labelled "1 minute" carries six intervals, from 1 minute out to weekly. They are not interchangeable options; they are layers with separate jobs — the slower charts establish the bias and locate the sweep that decides whether a trade is permitted at all, while the 1-minute chart contributes only the moment of entry. It explains the empty indicator list too: this is a price-action method with nothing to configure, which shifts the burden from parameter selection onto the trader's own judgment of what counts as a valid sweep and a valid reversal candle.

The exit side is where the chapter list says the most while committing to the least. It names one stop-loss section and two target options — a new high, or 2R. In practice those are two different strategies: a fixed 2R target yields an expectancy you can test against a win rate, whereas running a position to a new high is a variable-R exit whose outcome depends on where that high happens to sit on the day. This record preserves the video's chapter markers, but no rule set was extracted from it — so what the three requirements are, how a candle qualifies as a reversal, and where the stop is placed remain with the source video.

Topics

pine script · trading strategy · tradingview strategy · price action · scalping strategy · 1 minute strategy · nq futures · futures trading · liquidity sweep · reversal candle · intraday trading · day trading · nq scalping strategy

Frequently asked questions

What is a 1-minute reversal candle scalping strategy?

It is a scalping approach that uses a single candle on the 1-minute chart — one that rejects a level and closes against the preceding move — as the entry trigger, typically after a directional bias has already been established on a higher timeframe.

Why would a 1-minute strategy also reference daily and weekly charts?

Because the timeframes do different jobs rather than substituting for one another. In this video's sequence, the higher timeframes carry the directional bias and the liquidity sweep that qualify the setup, and the 1-minute chart is used only to time the entry once those conditions are in place.

Does this strategy use indicators?

No indicators are attached to this record — it is filed under price action. That removes parameter tuning from the equation but moves the discretion elsewhere: what qualifies as a liquidity sweep and what qualifies as a reversal candle are judgment calls the trader has to define consistently.

Why does the choice between a 2R target and a new high matter?

A fixed 2R target gives every trade the same payoff ratio, so a win rate is enough to estimate expectancy. Targeting a new high makes the reward vary trade by trade, which means results have to be measured over a sample rather than inferred from a hit rate — worth settling before backtesting the setup on historical 1-minute data.

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