Opening Range Breakout (ORB) with Auto Trendlines Strategy

1m/5m ORB strategy for stocks, forex, futures: enter when price clears the opening range high/low plus a trendline break; stop at the recent swing point.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Technical Indicators

Part of: Opening Range Breakout (ORB)

  • Methodology: Technical Indicators
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, Not higher than 15 minutes
  • Markets: Stock trading, Forex trading, Futures markets

Indicators used

  • Opening Range with Breakouts and Targets by LuxAlgo
  • Liquidity Trend Line with Signals by BigBeluga

Source video

Decoded from: No More False Breakouts: ORB with Auto Trendlines for Scalping & Day Trading by Trendline Project — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:09 - Indicator 1 (LuxAlgo ORB) description
  • 1:30 - Strategy 1 (ORB traditional approach) explained
  • 2:23 - Indicator 2 (BigBeluga Liquidity Trendline) description
  • 3:49 - Strategy 2 (Combined ORB and Auto Trendline) explained
  • 4:25 - Entry condition: 'wait for the price to break the trend line in the direction of the orb breakout'
  • 4:50 - Stop loss placement: 'below the recent swing just before the entry'
  • 4:55 - Scalping adjustment: 'consider lowering the auto trend line indicators period setting'

Strategy overview

An Opening Range Breakout uses the range built in the first minutes of the session as the reference line between indecision and direction. This entry, decoded from the Trendline Project channel, is not really about that range — it is about what happens immediately after it breaks. The video's subject is the false breakout, and its answer is to stop treating the range edge as sufficient evidence on its own and require a second, independently drawn line to agree before the move is taken seriously.

What makes this version distinct is that both halves of the setup come from community-published TradingView tools rather than from hand-drawn price action: LuxAlgo's "Opening Range with Breakouts and Targets" supplies the session range and its levels, and BigBeluga's "Liquidity Trend Line with Signals" supplies trendlines derived automatically from pivot structure. The video is built in two passes — it introduces each tool on its own, walks through the conventional ORB approach first, and only then presents the combined version as a separate, second strategy. That ordering is the teaching device: the baseline exists so the added layer has something to be compared against.

It is worth holding the title's "No More False Breakouts" as the video's framing rather than a measured outcome. Any confirmation layer trades away signals to gain selectivity, and it arrives late by construction — the second line can only confirm after the first has already broken. The auto-trendline side also carries its own sensitivity: how far back it looks for pivots changes where the lines are drawn, which changes what counts as confirmation. No complete rule set was extracted for this entry, so this page documents the concept and the video's structure rather than a step-by-step system; the source video and the two indicators' own documentation remain the reference for anyone reconstructing it.

Topics

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Frequently asked questions

What is an ORB with auto trendlines?

It is an Opening Range Breakout used together with an indicator that plots trendlines automatically from pivot points, so the session range provides the directional context and the trendline acts as a second, independently derived layer of confirmation before the breakout is acted on.

Do trendline filters really eliminate false breakouts?

No filter eliminates them — "No More False Breakouts" is the video's title and framing, not a measured result. What a confirmation layer realistically does is reduce how many breakouts qualify, at the cost of fewer signals and later entries. Whether that trade is favorable on your market and timeframe is an empirical question, not something the concept settles.

Which indicators does this version use?

Two community-published TradingView tools: LuxAlgo's "Opening Range with Breakouts and Targets" for the session range and its levels, and BigBeluga's "Liquidity Trend Line with Signals" for the automatically drawn trendlines. Both are publicly available on TradingView, and each is described separately in the source video before they are combined.

How should I evaluate a filtered ORB variant like this one?

Test the plain opening range breakout and the filtered version separately on the same data, so you can see what the added layer actually removes and whether the remaining trades justify the ones it skipped. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies like this one from their video sources so you can identify the components and evaluate them yourself on TradingView.

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