Pure price action is the whole engine behind the 1 Minute Scalping Indicator. Every buy and sell arrow comes from checking each candle against the candles before it, so no lagging indicator sits inside the signals.
It was built for quick in-and-out trades on the 1-minute chart, and it runs on any market and timeframe, even symbols with no volume data. Along with the arrows you get three trade modes, candles that color by signal direction, an automatic trailing stop loss, three take profit levels, built-in trend filtering, filtering with up to 3 of your other indicators, and warnings that tell you when to be careful.
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WHAT IT DOES
Each candle gets tested against a set of custom price action setups. The setups look at a mix of candle direction, body and wick size compared to average candle sizes, breaks of recent highs and lows, where the candle sits in recent market structure, patterns that take more than one candle to form, and how price gaps at the start of a new trading day.
Those average sizes come from recent candles and adjust to the market you are on, so the same settings work on quiet and fast tickers. Signals also take turns. After a buy the next arrow can only be a sell, and after a sell it can only be a buy, which keeps the chart clean and makes each arrow a clear turning point.
In Smooth But Fast, the Number Of Previous Candles To Analyze For Signals setting (default 3) controls how quickly it reacts. Lower numbers react faster, and higher numbers hold positions longer. It only changes some of the setups, so major moves still come through either way, and it has no effect in Fast or Medium.
Green arrows print under the candle for buys and red arrows print over the candle for sells, in small, medium or large. While a candle is still open the arrow shows see-through as a preview, and once the candle closes with the arrow still there, it turns solid and locks in. If you only want locked-in arrows, open the unconfirmed arrow colors and slide the bar at the bottom of the color picker down to 0.
Both are on by default, and either one can be turned off.
Candles paint teal from a buy until the next sell, and orange from a sell until the next buy, so you can hold a trade without second guessing every small candle that goes against you. When a filter is on, candles paint gray any time the filters do not line up with the signal direction, so you can see at a glance when to stay flat. All three colors can be changed, and the coloring can be turned off.
The stop starts from the lowest low or highest high of the last few candles, set by Stoploss Candle Trail Length (default 3), then adds padding equal to the average candle size times your Stoploss Avg Candle Multiple (default 1). It only trails in your trade direction and flips to the other side when a new signal confirms. When price hits the stop, the line and label switch to the hit color so you see it right away, and a candle that gaps all the way past the stop still counts as a hit.
Trailing Stoploss Exit From Here: after you enter a trade, turn this on to stop all new signals and just trail your stop, so you can hold the move with no conflicting arrows coming in. The trail line starts from the candle where you turn it on and locks to the signal direction at that moment, the stop label shows which side you are holding, and the take profit lines hide while it is on. Once you exit, turn it back off to see signals again.
Three targets are drawn at multiples of the average candle size, 3, 6 and 9 by default, measured from the price where the latest signal locked in. They stay put until an opposite signal confirms, so your targets do not drift during the trade, and a candle that gaps past a level still counts as a hit.
This is on by default. It blocks signals on candles that are too small to count as a real move, which filters out some of the false signals small candles create. The trade-off is that it can hold back an early signal now and then, so turn it off if you want signals no matter how small the candle is.
HOW TO TRADE WITH IT
Start with Smooth But Fast on the default settings. Turn on the auto moving average filter or an outside filter so you only see arrows that go with the trend, then pay the most attention to arrows that print as price bounces off a support or resistance level you already have marked. Wait for the candle to close if you want confirmed entries, and if a yellow dot prints, let the next candle confirm first.
Take a confirmed arrow, then turn on Trailing Stoploss Exit From Here. New arrows stop coming in and the stop trails behind price, so you can hold until it gets hit instead of reacting to every small pullback. Turn it off when you are out.
If you would rather take profits along the way, use the three take profit levels instead of doing chart math in your head, or treat the opposite arrow as your exit cue. If a yellow X shows up, the market flipped fast, so get out or tighten your stop.
Turn on the Higher Timeframe Candle Filter and new arrows wait until price closes above the previous higher timeframe candle’s high for buys, or below its low for sells. Pick any timeframe from 30 seconds up to 1 week (2 minutes by default), and set it higher than your chart. The normal signal checks still have to pass too, so you get fewer signals and hold trades longer, and the level lines show the exact high and low price needs to pass. During big volatility it can make entries late, so turn it off when you want the earliest entries and exits.
TRADE WITH THE TREND
Two built-in moving averages that scale to your chart timeframe handle the trend for you. There are four modes:
This filter works on the 15-second, 30-second, 1-minute, 2-minute, 3-minute and 5-minute charts. On any other timeframe the moving averages do not show and the filter turns itself off. You can show the short and long moving average lines whether the filter is on or not, and each line paints your bullish color when price is above it and your bearish color when price is below it.
In the External Indicator Filters settings you can pick up to 3 other indicators on your chart as filters. Each one reads a value from the other indicator: 1 means bullish, -1 means bearish and 0 means no trades. With filters on, an arrow only prints when every filter you turned on agrees with its direction.
The Trend Trading Indicator, Scalper Ribbon and Higher Timeframe Price Action Scanner each send out a value named Trend Direction To Send To External Indicators that is built for this, and any indicator that sends 1, -1 or 0 will work. If a filter points at a source that does not send those values, a message shows at the top of your chart and signals stay blocked until you fix it. On the 15-second through 5-minute charts, the auto moving average filter can run together with these filters. On other timeframes, set the auto filter to Off when you use these, or no arrows will print.
This indicator sends out its own direction value, 1 after a buy signal and -1 after a sell signal, so other indicators with filter inputs can use it as a filter. That lets you chain tools together so you only get signals when they agree.
CONFIGURATION
Every setting has a tooltip. Hover over the i icon next to any setting for a full explanation.
STAY NOTIFIED
Set these up in TradingView’s alert menu so you do not have to watch the chart all session.
SIGNAL CONFIRMATION
Every signal check runs on the live candle that is still forming, which is what makes early entries possible. While that candle is open, a preview arrow can show up and then go away if conditions change before the close. Once the candle closes with an arrow showing, that arrow is locked in and never moves, changes or disappears, so every solid arrow you see on a closed candle printed in real time and stayed there.
The only higher timeframe data the script asks for is the high and low of the last fully closed higher timeframe candle, used by the Higher Timeframe Candle Filter and its lines. That data is already final, so those levels never repaint, and the script never reads future data. Candle colors, moving averages, the stop trail and labels update live on the open candle like any standard indicator, and once a candle closes, its values are final.
MARKETS & TIMEFRAMES
The 1 Minute Scalping Indicator runs on stocks, crypto, forex and futures, on every timeframe. It is built for scalping the 1-minute chart, but since the signals come from price action alone, they work the same way on whatever timeframe you trade. It uses no volume data, so it also runs on symbols that have no volume, like indices.
The one limit is the auto moving average filter, which only works on the 15-second through 5-minute charts. On higher timeframes, use your other indicators as filters instead.
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CHANGELOG
When the Premium Suite moved into TradingView's Paid Space, the 1 Minute Scalping Indicator's description got a full rewrite to match the current version and the old release notes were removed to avoid confusion. This page reflects the current version of the indicator, so everything above matches what you get on your chart.
Fixed issues with alerts firing too often.
Major overhaul of signal parameters with new auto trend filtering using built-in moving averages, updated stop loss and take profit calculations, and a candle coloring bug fix.
Major update with Pine Script v6, 40% faster loading, redesigned trade modes, Higher Timeframe Candle Filter, and external indicator trend filtering.
Added Super Scalp/Swing/Long Swing modes, automatic trailing stop loss, 3 take profit levels, candle size rejection, false signal warnings, and extensive customization options.
EXPLORE THE SUITE
Premium Suite
Uses the same price action algorithm on multiple higher timeframes. Use the scanner for overall trend direction and the 1 Minute Scalping Indicator for entries in that trend.
Premium Suite
Draws adaptive support and resistance levels from heavy volume, ranked Large, Huge or Massive, with a scanner across several tickers. Mark those levels first, then watch for a 1 Minute Scalping arrow when price reacts there, with a clear spot for your stop loss.
Premium Suite
Multi-timeframe trend detection with master trend and trend strength scoring. Use its trend direction output as an external filter for the 1 Minute Scalping Indicator to only get signals in the direction of the established trend.
