I have been working on something for the past 14 days. Not posting — experimenting.
After the trading contest I wrote about in the previous post, something stayed with me. The contest required 50 trades in a week. My strategy produces maybe 10 quality trades in a good month. That gap made me ask an honest question: is my strategy more complicated than it needs to be?
So I started removing things to find out.
My Grandmother's Noodles
A few days ago my sister was making dinner — and I am not trying to make you jealous, but in my opinion my sister cooks the best food. She turned to me and asked: "Do you remember how grandma used to make us noodles?"
The moment she asked, I remembered the taste as if I had eaten it just now. Years have passed but the memory is still vivid.
You might think the recipe must be complicated. But the ingredients are just noodles, onions, oil, salt, and water. Boil the noodles, fry them with onions in oil, add salt, make them crispy. That is everything.
What I Changed — And What I Kept
I am not claiming simpler automatically means better. What I am actually testing is whether I can remove unnecessary complexity without removing something that matters.
What I kept: the same core principles. HTF bias, FVG as the point of interest, liquidity sweep before entry, BOS as the trigger.
What I changed: the timeframes. Instead of the 1-hour as HTF I am using the 15-minute. Instead of the 15-minute as LTF I am using the 5-minute.
I created a new journal specifically for this. I deliberately selected 12 trades that met the new rules — not trades I stumbled into, but setups that passed the same checklist applied to smaller timeframes.
Where the Journal Currently Stands
12 trades. 50% win rate. Average planned R:R of 1.75.
At 12 trades these numbers are extremely unstable. One additional win or loss changes everything substantially. This is where the journal currently stands — not evidence that anything works, just an early observation worth tracking.
If I reach 100 trades and the numbers remain reasonable, I will have something more worth discussing. Even then, 100 trades will not prove the strategy works. It will simply be enough to say whether it is worth continuing to test.
You can follow along in real time in the new Scalping Journal.
I am not claiming I have found a better recipe. I am just starting to remove ingredients to see which ones actually matter.
Bye for now, take care.
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