Quantum STS: Session Fakeouts and Opening Range Breakouts

Explore the Quantum STS strategy for futures trading. This guide covers session fakeouts and opening range breakouts using Quantum STS and other indicators to i

Published · Updated · Methodology: Technical Indicators

Part of: Opening Range Breakout (ORB)

  • Methodology: Technical Indicators
  • Content type: both
  • Timeframes: Not explicitly mentioned for chart timeframe, but strategies are session-based (Asia, London, New York pre-open, AM, PM).
  • Markets: Futures, Micro E-mini Nasdaq

Indicators used

  • Quantum STS
  • Quantum Ribbon Pro
  • Trend Ribbon (EMA Trend Cloud)
  • VWAP
  • ATR

Source video

Decoded from: Session Fakeouts and ORB: How to Trade Them With Quantum STS by Trendline Project — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:17 - Introduction to Quantum STS and its core strategies
  • 1:27 - Session Fakeout strategy explanation
  • 2:45 - How the session cascade works
  • 3:40 - Entry levels for session fakeout (offset)
  • 4:50 - Risk to reward boxes for session fakeout
  • 5:40 - Opening Range Breakout strategy explanation
  • 7:20 - Filters for Opening Range Breakout (ribbon trend, volume)
  • 7:55 - Entry types for Opening Range Breakout (breakout, retest)
  • 8:40 - Ribbon Flip exit for Opening Range Breakout
  • 9:30 - Discretionary tools (key levels, dynamic S/R, VWAP, EMA trend cloud)
  • 11:00 - Importance of backtesting with QSTS Backtester
  • 12:20 - Backtester modes (Session Fakeout, Opening Range, Combined)
  • 13:30 - Backtester sizing (ATR vs. fixed points)
  • 14:00 - Recommended backtesting sequence

Strategy overview

An opening range breakout takes the high and low of a defined early window and trades the side that price resolves through. What separates this entry is that it does not treat the opening range as a once-a-day event: the video works through a session cascade — Asia, London, the New York pre-open, then the AM and PM sessions — where each block leaves behind its own range, and the boundary of one becomes reference for the next. The strategies here are anchored to the session clock rather than to a chart interval, which is an unusual way to frame a breakout and the main reason this entry is worth reading alongside the standard single-open ORB material.

The second reason is the pairing. "Session Fakeouts and ORB: How to Trade Them With Quantum STS", from the Trendline Project channel, presents the two setups as mirror images of the same event: a session boundary gets breached, and either the move holds — the breakout — or it reverses back inside, the fakeout. Same level, opposite resolution, and the video allocates most of its running time to the fakeout side before turning to the breakout, with trend and VWAP context used to separate the two readings. That ordering is telling: the failed break is treated as the primary play, and the breakout as its complement.

One thing to be clear about — this video is a walkthrough of Quantum STS, a proprietary indicator suite, not a standalone rule set, and no rules were extracted from it here. So this page cannot report the entry mechanics, the offsets used to place orders relative to each session boundary, or how risk is framed; those live inside the tool and its settings. Anyone drawn to the concept should treat the multi-session structure as the reusable idea and expect to define and test their own thresholds before it means anything.

Topics

trading strategy · pine script · tradingview strategy · futures trading strategy · micro e-mini nasdaq strategy · session fakeout strategy · opening range breakout · technical indicators · vwap trading strategy · atr strategy · mechanical trading strategy · day trading strategy · futures scalping

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between a session fakeout and a session breakout?

Both start with price breaking the high or low of a defined session range. In a breakout, the move continues in the direction of the break; in a fakeout, price pushes through the level and then reverses back inside the range, trapping the traders who entered on the break. The two are read from the same boundary and separated only by what happens after it is crossed.

Can an opening range breakout be applied to sessions other than the market open?

Yes — that is the premise of this video. Instead of one opening range per day, it works through a cascade of trading sessions (Asia, London, the New York pre-open, and the AM and PM blocks), each producing its own range whose boundaries carry into the sessions that follow. The setup is anchored to session times rather than to a fixed chart timeframe.

Does this approach depend on a paid indicator?

The video is built around Quantum STS and its companion tools from the same suite, which handle the session ranges, the EMA trend ribbon and the VWAP context. The underlying concepts — session ranges, a moving-average trend filter, VWAP as reference — are generic and can be built independently, but the version demonstrated in the source is tied to that specific toolset.

Are the exact entry and exit rules for this strategy available on this page?

No. No rule set was extracted from this source, so the specific entry offsets, filters and risk parameters are not reported here — the page covers the concept and the video's framing only. Strategy Decoder extracts structured rules from video sources where they are stated explicitly, and flags entries like this one where they are not.

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