Every setup below comes down to one question: what's the next bar going to do? Not where the day ends up. Not a measured move three hours out. Just the candle in front of you, and whether the next one is likely to keep going or turn around. That's the whole job. Charts here are interactive. Click Play on any setup and watch the signal bar fire, then the entry, stop, and target draw themselves, computed live from the actual candle.
“A setup is invalid when either check fails: the signal bar itself is too small to trade, or the path to the target is blocked by a level price would have to fight through first. Both checks run before the trade is placed, not after.”Jason Parker · Founder
A handful of terms show up again and again below. Click one to see what it means.
Wait for the signal bar to close, then buy if price on the next bar trades one tick above the signal bar's high. The close confirms the signal. It isn't your entry price.
Wait for the signal bar to close, then sell if price on the next bar trades one tick below the signal bar's low. The close confirms the signal. It isn't your entry price.
The stop goes one tick past the far side of the signal bar: below its low on a long, above its high on a short. The target is half the size of the signal bar: if the signal bar spans 20 cents low to high, the target is 10 cents from your entry. That's risking two dollars to make one, on purpose. This system leans on a high win rate, not big winners.
Risking $1 to make $0.50 is a losing equation until your win rate clears a specific line. Play with the numbers below. The default is this system's own 1:0.5 risk to reward.
≈70% is the honest break-even line once spread and slippage are priced in, not the raw 67% the math alone gives you. ≈80% is doing well. ≈90% is among the best scalpers running this.
For a long, the candle closes at or very near its own high. For a short, it closes at or very near its own low. Every setup on this page is a different situation for spotting one of these candles.
Two checks can rule out a trade before it's ever placed. Click through the examples below. Same setup, different outcome.
Illustrative examples built to show the rule. Not historical TQQQ prices.
Each chart shows the setup forming. Hit Play and the signal bar fires, then the entry, stop, and target draw in, computed the same way you'd compute them live, straight from the signal bar's own high, low, and close.
The pattern: a trend bar sitting right against the 10 EMA, touching it or very close to it, that closes near its own high (long) or low (short).
Long: a green trend bar sitting on or just above the 10 EMA, closing near its high. Buy the close.
Short: a red trend bar sitting on or just below the 10 EMA, closing near its low. Sell the close.
The pattern: price crosses from one side of the 10 EMA to the other, and the candle doing the crossing closes on the new side.
Long: price has been below the 10 EMA, then a green trend bar crosses up through it and closes above. Buy the close.
Short: price has been above the 10 EMA, then a red trend bar crosses down through it and closes below. Sell the close.
The pattern: price comes from a distance away, touches the 10 EMA, and bounces off it without crossing through.
Long: price pulls back down to the EMA from above, touches it, then bounces and closes as a green trend bar near its high. Buy the close.
Short: price pulls back up to the EMA from below, touches it, then bounces down and closes as a red trend bar near its low. Sell the close.
The pattern: two trend bars, same color, back to back, both on the same side of the 10 EMA.
Long: two green trend bars in a row, both above the 10 EMA. Buy the close of the second one.
Short: two red trend bars in a row, both below the 10 EMA. Sell the close of the second one.
The pattern: price moves away from the 10 EMA in three separate pushes, then runs out of steam and turns. It shows up as a wedge, a triple top or bottom, a double top plus one extra push, or a fast parabolic run. It doesn't need to be a clean zig-zag.
Short: price pushed up three times, then the reversal candle has a long wick sticking up above its body (a pin bar / upthrust). Sell the close of that candle.
Long: price pushed down three times, then the reversal candle has a long wick sticking down below its body. Buy the close of that candle.
The pattern: one big trend bar that closes near its own high or low, and in doing so breaks past more than one earlier pivot, an old high or low the chart already bounced off. The pivots don't need to line up exactly. You just want the close clearly past more than one of them, not barely past one.
Long: a large green bar closes near its high, above more than one recent pivot. Buy the close.
Short: a large red bar closes near its low, below more than one recent pivot. Sell the close.
The pattern: price moving in an obvious, narrow, tilted channel, with small pullbacks and a clear direction. This one isn't about distance to the 10 EMA. It's about the shape of the move itself.
Rule: trade with the channel's direction. A tight channel moving up means longs only. Moving down means shorts only.
Exception: if what looks like a three-push reversal (Setup 05) forms inside a tight channel, ignore it. Stay with the channel instead.
Loosening any of this is how a 70%+ system turns into a losing one. Forcing a trade that doesn't match the signal-bar rule, ignoring a level sitting in the way, sizing up because a setup "feels" strong. That's the gap between the math above and an account that survives. Run your own numbers in the position-size calculator, or head back to risk management for the account-level rules that sit underneath every system on this site.
Common questions about trading this specific system, answered straight.
It's a 2-minute TQQQ system built around a single 10-period EMA: seven setups, from a simple pullback trend bar to a three-push exhaustion reversal, that all share the same entry, stop, and target math once a signal bar closes. Entry is one tick past that bar's own high or low, the stop is one tick past the far side, and the target is half the bar's range away.
Because the stop sits one tick past the far side of the signal bar while the target is only half the bar's range, so a typical trade risks about two dollars to make one, on purpose. That ratio only works if the win rate clears a specific line, which is what the win-rate calculator on this page is built to show. This system leans on a high win rate, not big winners.
When either of two checks fails: the signal bar itself is too small to trade, or the path to the target is blocked by a level price would have to fight through first. Both checks run before a trade is placed, not after, using the invalid-trade checker shown on this page. Loosening either check because a setup feels strong is exactly how this system's edge disappears.
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