The strategies page covers setups by name and idea: momentum, VWAP reversion, order flow. A system is narrower and more useful once you're actually trading: one instrument, one chart timeframe, one indicator, a fixed list of setups, and the exact stop and target math for every single one. No judgment calls about "does this feel right." Either the bar matches the rule or it doesn't.
“No judgment calls. Either the bar matches the system's exact stop and target math, or you don't take the trade.”Jason Parker · Founder, TradeScalping.com
Seven setups, all built around one question: what's the next bar going to do? Interactive charts walk through every setup, from the pullback and the crossover to the bounce, the reversal, the breakout, and the channel. Entry, stop, and target compute live from the signal bar.
Open the system →Four setups built around one idea: price stretched away from VWAP and is coming back. Interactive charts walk through the band tag, the failed breakout, the weaker second tag, and the one setup that trades with the trend instead of against it.
Open the system →Four setups built around the first fifteen minutes of the session: the range breakout, the range breakdown, the failed breakout that fades back the other way, and the retest that holds a broken level. No moving average, no VWAP, just the box and what price does at its edges.
Open the system →Four setups built around a single rule: the 15-minute chart picks the direction, the 2-minute chart only times the entry. A trend pullback, a range breakout, a broken-level retest, and a failed reversal that traps the countertrend crowd. Every trigger checked against the bigger chart before it counts.
Open the system →Four setups built around one question the other four systems never ask: did enough volume actually show up behind this bar? The confirmed breakout, the light-volume fade, the climax reversal, and the quiet dry-up continuation, all judged against the bar's own average volume instead of a line on the price chart.
Open the system →Four setups built around one question the other five systems never ask: how long has momentum actually been stretched? The threshold reversal, the failure swing, the divergence fade, and the one setup that trades with the trend instead of against it, all judged against a 7-period RSI plotted under the price chart.
Open the system →The first futures system on this site. Four setups built on the E-mini S&P 500's overnight session instead of a stock's cash-hours range: the globex high breakout, the globex low breakdown, the open-drive failed break, and a reversion play that only shows up when the overnight range runs unusually wide. Priced in 0.25-point ticks, not cents.
Open the system →The site's second futures system. Four setups built on the E-mini Nasdaq-100's regular-session opening range instead of the overnight session ES trades: the range breakout, the range breakdown, the failed breakout that fades back the other way, and the retest that holds a broken level. Same 0.25-point tick as ES, a smaller dollar value riding on it.
Open the system →The site's third futures system, and the first one that isn't built around a fixed session window. Four setups built on a coil instead: a run of bars overlapping inside a narrow box, and what happens on the bar that finally breaks out of it. The coil breakout, the coil breakdown, the failed breakout that fades back inside, and the continuation bar that skips the retest entirely. Priced in 0.10-point ticks, the finest on this site.
Open the system →The site's second volume-based system, same relative-volume filter as NVDA, on a stock that gaps and spikes harder off headlines than almost anything else here. The confirmed breakout, the light-volume fade, the climax reversal, and the quiet dry-up continuation, all judged against the bar's own average volume instead of a line on the price chart.
Open the system →The site's second RSI-based system, same reversion approach as AMD, tuned for a name that moves a lot faster: a 9-period RSI instead of 7, built to filter out the extra chop. The threshold reversal, the failure swing, the divergence fade, and the one setup that trades with the trend instead of against it.
Open the system →The site's second VWAP band system, same fade-back-to-average approach as SPY, rescaled for a stock that moves far more than an index ETF: a slower 10-minute chart, bands set much wider, and a deeper minimum pierce before a tag counts as a signal instead of noise.
Open the system →Four setups built around 20-period Bollinger Bands: a band walk, a squeeze release breakout, a band tag reversion, and a midline reclaim. Interactive charts show the midline and both outer bands, with entry, stop, and target computed live from the signal bar.
Open the system →Four setups built around a single session VWAP line instead of a band: a cross trend bar, a touch continuation, a two-bar push, and a fade exhaustion. Interactive charts show the VWAP line plotted live, with entry, stop, and target computed from the signal bar.
Open the system →The site's first channel system built on pure price extremes instead of a moving average or a standard deviation: a 20-bar Donchian Channel that only moves when price sets a fresh high or low. A breakout, a band ride, a false break fade, and a midline reclaim. Interactive charts show the channel's midline and both bands, with entry, stop, and target computed live from the signal bar.
Open the system →Every future system on this page follows the same format as the fifteen above: a fixed instrument, a fixed timeframe, a short list of setups, and interactive charts instead of a wall of text. Check back as new ones get added.
Not sure which one fits you? Take the two-minute system quiz and get a straight answer instead of guessing off eight ticker names.
Common questions about picking and running one of these ticker-specific systems.
A setup is a pattern that works the same way across instruments and timeframes. A system takes one setup, or a short list of them, and locks it down to one ticker, one chart timeframe, one indicator, and exact stop and target math. There's no judgment call left, only whether the bar matches the rule.
There's no universal answer, which is the point of the two-minute system quiz linked below: it matches your answers to one of these systems instead of guessing off a ticker name. In general, a system built on a single, visible indicator (VWAP, an EMA, an opening range) is easier to learn than one built on order flow or delta.
The underlying setup, sure. The exact numbers, no. Each system's stop and target math is calibrated to that instrument's typical range and tick size; the ES 1-minute Globex system's point math doesn't transfer to TQQQ, and TQQQ's cent-based targets don't transfer to a futures contract. Treat a system as a template for building your own on a new ticker, not a plug-and-play swap.
This site doesn't set a minimum, since it depends on the instrument, your position size, and your broker's margin requirements, especially for the futures systems (ES, NQ, RTY). Work out position size from your own account and risk tolerance using the calculator on the Tools page before assuming any number here applies to you.
Yes; three of the fifteen systems on this page are built specifically for futures contracts, priced in exact ticks and points instead of cents, since a futures contract's minimum price movement doesn't work the same way a stock's does.
The SPY system here is built on a 5-minute VWAP reversion, entering when price stretches too far from VWAP's standard deviation bands and reverts back. The QQQ system is built on a 5-minute opening range breakout instead, trading whichever side of the first 15 minutes' range breaks. Same market, two different approaches, since VWAP reversion and opening range breakout answer different questions about the same instrument.
Mechanically, in the units: a stock or ETF system prices its stop and target in cents, a futures system prices them in ticks and points, and each futures contract has its own tick size and point value. Conceptually, the setups themselves (VWAP reversion, opening range breakout, RSI reversion) work the same either way; only the math underneath changes.
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