Globex Session Range, Trendlines Scalping Strategy

Master scalping US Indices (Nasdaq, S&P 500) using Globex session ranges and trendline breaks. Identify liquidity zones for high-probability entries.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Trendline Trading

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: Not explicitly stated for entry, but implied to be small for scalping. Speaker mentions 'temporadas más pequeñas' [8:00] for patience.
  • Markets: US Indices, Nasdaq 100, S&P 500

Indicators used

  • Futuros Glob Excessio
  • Trendlines

Source video

Decoded from: 👑La mejor ESTRATEGIA SCALPING para New York👑! FACIL Y CLARA (PASA PRUEBAS DE FONDEO) by Ant Finances — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:40 - Introduction to the scalping methodology
  • 2:40 - Correlation between Nasdaq and S&P500
  • 3:20 - Globex indicator explanation
  • 4:20 - Identifying liquidity zones (above/below Globex range)
  • 5:00 - Condition for valid zones (created in US session)
  • 6:00 - Importance of untouched zones
  • 7:00 - Waiting for price to reach the zone
  • 8:00 - Patience and not executing early
  • 9:00 - Entry trigger: trendline break with rejection
  • 9:40 - Execution example and profit taking

Strategy overview

In most trendline material the line *is* the strategy — it marks the level, the entry and the invalidation all at once. This entry reverses that hierarchy: the location comes from the Globex session range, and the trendline is demoted to a timing tool, the thing that says *now* once price has already arrived somewhere the trader considers interesting. That division of labour is the part worth noticing, because it changes what a broken line means: it is no longer a signal on its own, only a trigger inside a zone that was chosen for other reasons.

That is also where the source video spends its runtime. Ant Finances' "La mejor ESTRATEGIA SCALPING para New York" gives comparatively little attention to how to draw the line and considerably more to which zones deserve one — the video works through conditions that separate a qualifying zone from a coincidental level, including when the zone was formed and whether price has already traded back through it. A further stretch is given to the Nasdaq–S&P 500 relationship, treating the second index as a corroborating read rather than trading the instrument as if it were self-contained. Both are filters on *where*, not on *how* — which is consistent with a framework that has already outsourced the trigger to a hand-drawn line.

The video is in Spanish and aimed at New York-session scalpers, and no machine-readable rule set was extracted for this entry, so what this page offers is the shape of the approach rather than a reconstructed rulebook. The gap that leaves is worth stating plainly: a zone-first framework tells you where to pay attention, but the entry still rests on a discretionary line, and the definition of a valid break — closes versus wicks, how many touches, how much slope — is precisely the part a reader would need to take from the source itself.

Topics

scalping strategy · us indices trading · price action · tradingview strategy · globex session · trendline break · nasdaq 100 strategy · s&p 500 trading · trading strategy · pine script

Frequently asked questions

What role does a trendline play in a session-range scalping strategy?

In this kind of framework the trendline is not the setup — the session range and the zones derived from it decide where a trade is worth considering, and the trendline break supplies the timing once price is already there. It answers *when*, not *where*.

Why would a Nasdaq scalping strategy also look at the S&P 500?

The two indices are strongly correlated, so traders use one as a cross-check on the other: agreement suggests a broad move, while divergence suggests something instrument-specific. The source video devotes a section to this relationship before discussing entries.

What makes a liquidity zone count as valid in this approach?

The video applies eligibility conditions rather than treating every level equally — it looks at where the zone sits relative to the session range, which session it formed in, and whether price has already traded into it. Untouched zones are treated as carrying more information than ones that have already been revisited.

Are the full rules of this strategy available here?

No structured rule set was extracted for this entry, so there is no decoded breakdown of entries, exits or filters on this page — the Spanish-language source video remains the reference. Strategy Decoder extracts machine-readable structure where a video's rules are stated explicitly enough to support it.

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