Opening Range Breakout, Institutional Liquidity, Body Candle Filter Strategy

A 1-minute scalping strategy for the New York session focusing on opening range breakouts, institutional liquidity, and a body candle filter for EURUSD.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Opening Range Breakout (ORB)

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: 1 Minute
  • Markets: Eurodollar (EURUSD), Any market (implied)

Indicators used

  • Price Action
  • Candle Size / Volume (implied)

Source video

Decoded from: Estrategia Scalping de 1 Vela: +25% con una Sola Regla (Tutorial Paso a Paso) by Ignacio Ayago | Trading con Bots — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Intro
  • 3:49 - El Marco Diario (Daily Framework)
  • 5:16 - Construimos Bot 1 (Building Bot 1)
  • 8:18 - Backtesting Bot 1
  • 12:21 - Filtrado de Rupturas (Breakout Filtering)
  • 13:34 - Construimos Bot 2 (con Filtro) (Building Bot 2 with Filter)
  • 17:50 - Backtesting Bot 1 (re-run)
  • 20:34 - Backtesting Bot 2 (con Filtro) (re-run)
  • 24:46 - Resultados Backtest 1 Año (1 Year Backtest Results)

Strategy overview

An opening range breakout takes the high and low formed at the start of a session and treats a break of that range as the first directional signal of the day. What makes this entry different from a standard ORB write-up is that the breakout is only the skeleton: the video that it was decoded from is a bot-building tutorial in which the ORB provides the entry trigger, and the actual subject of the lesson is the single filter rule layered on top of it — a check on the size of the candle body driving the break, used to separate a real expansion from a thin, low-conviction poke through the level.

The source is Ignacio Ayago's Spanish-language video "Estrategia Scalping de 1 Vela: +25% con una Sola Regla (Tutorial Paso a Paso)", from the channel Trading con Bots, and its structure is unusually explicit about method. It opens with a daily framework — where the higher-timeframe liquidity sits before you ever drop to the 1-minute chart — then builds a first bot on the raw breakout, backtests it, diagnoses what goes wrong (false breakouts), and only then builds a second bot with the body-size filter added. That before-and-after pairing is the pedagogical point: you see the unfiltered baseline and the filtered variant as two separate automated versions of the same idea, rather than a finished rule set handed over at the end.

Two honest caveats belong on this page. The percentage in the title is the creator's own figure from his own backtest of his own build; it is not an independently verified result, and it is not carried over here as a claim about the strategy. And no complete mechanical rule set was extracted for this entry — what this page offers is the concept, the video's angle, and the chapter structure that shows where each step of the build happens, not a specification you could hand to a coder unchanged. Anyone rebuilding it will also want to account for the fact that 1-minute scalping is where spread and commission costs weigh most heavily on any edge.

Topics

opening range breakout · institutional liquidity · price action · scalping strategy · 1 minute strategy · eurusd strategy · forex strategy · tradingview strategy · pine script strategy · trading strategy · body candle filter · new york session

Frequently asked questions

Why filter an opening range breakout by candle body size?

Because most of the damage in breakout trading comes from breaks that barely clear the level and reverse. Looking at how large the body of the breaking candle is — relative to what recent candles have been doing — is one of the simplest ways to ask whether the move carries real participation or is just noise brushing the range edge.

What does this video add compared with a basic ORB tutorial?

It is framed as an automation build rather than a chart lesson. The video constructs a first bot on the plain breakout, backtests it to expose false breakouts, and then constructs a second bot with the filter added — so the filter's contribution is presented as a comparison between two versions, not asserted up front.

Does the video claim a specific return?

The title advertises "+25% with a single rule". That figure comes from the creator's own backtest of his own implementation and is presented here only as a description of the source material — it is not a verified result and should not be treated as an expected outcome.

Does this page contain the full rules for the strategy?

No. A complete mechanical rule set was not extracted for this entry, so this page covers the concept, the video's approach and its chapter structure rather than a full specification. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies like this one from video sources so you can find the underlying idea and test it yourself before committing capital.

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