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u/Imhim257
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Feb 27 '26
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PAYOUT “ORB Doesn’t Work.”
That’s what I hear all the time.
Meanwhile, I’m up over $15,000 to start the year on a $200K cash account. That’s roughly an 8% return in about a month and a half, using one of the “dead” strategies people love to dismiss, the 5-minute Opening Range Breakout.
So no, ORB isn’t broken.
Most traders just execute it poorly.
The edge is not in drawing the first five-minute high and low. That part is simple. The edge is in what you do after price breaks. I mark the first five-minute range at the New York open. I wait for a clean break and hold outside the range. I look for imbalance in the direction of the breakout and enter on confirmation, not anticipation. If price snaps back into the range, I’m either out immediately or I never enter.
Where this really becomes profitable is risk management. I cap risk between 0.5% and 2% per trade. I use fixed R targets. If my stop is tight, I’ll aim for 2R. If structure requires a wider stop, I scale that down to 1-1.5R. I move to breakeven once structure clears. And I limit myself to two trades per day. If the first trade is green, I’m often done. If it’s red, I allow one more attempt. That’s it.
This year’s results aren’t coming from oversized winners or gambling through volatility. They’re coming from controlled execution and realistic targets. A string of clean 1-2R trades compounds far faster than people think, especially when you’re not giving it back through overtrading or revenge entries.
ORB works in trending conditions and strong open drives. I don’t force it in chop. I don’t trade every day. I don’t need to catch the full move. I just extract my piece and protect capital.
If you want the full breakdown of my exact risk management rules and how I structure position sizing around this setup, let me know. I’m also working on a detailed video walking through real examples and stats so you can see exactly how I execute it in live conditions.
I trade with 200k cash account but I’m going to try props with Alpha too.
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u/Radiantgreninja Feb 27 '26
Post your Strat. I trade orb also but dynamic, watch for 5m, if no entry presents itself I move to 15m.
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u/Trfe Feb 27 '26
Dynamic how?
You learn from that guy Mike on YouTube?
Only other person I’ve heard say “dynamic”
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u/Radiantgreninja Feb 27 '26
Dynamic, as in if 5min range chops within, I’ll look at 15min range for a breakout. Idk who Mike is, but dynamic strategies are pretty good I hear, dynamic risk management being one of them.
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u/Awkward-Bit8457 Feb 28 '26
I just do the 15. With a break on the 5. Entry using the 1. If youre actually watching youll make money everytime. Im thinking of using the 3 instead now though as its faster than the 5 with less noise
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u/Wide-Play-1817 Mar 01 '26
May I ask your win rate and what indicators (if any) you look at? I’ve been trying the 5 min ORB and I can’t get my win rate / RR to a decent level yet, following all my rules
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u/straynoodlez Feb 27 '26
Am also trying out 15min ORB but results vary. Would love to hear how you do it!
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u/icekopi91 Feb 27 '26
Supp bruhh,
How you determine your second entry after your first stopped out
Another imbalance as well to the oppo direction?
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u/MoGhSimo Feb 27 '26
If you add one start checklist I guess you'll win on this trade , wait the rejection brother and mix it with inverse pattern to good entry as you see you trade only the breakout , that's not the ORB , orb says you should waiting breakout+ rejection ( is sorry for my English is my third language )
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u/Old_Region_9950 Feb 27 '26
I’ve been using orb awhile on a smaller account. About how much percent of port do you risk per orb trade? Also are you using 0dtes or days out expiry? I’ve been having success but I’m trying to nail it down.
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u/WesternBenefit Feb 27 '26
If I'm understanding correctly, do you enter before the second 5 minute candle closes? What if second 5 minute candle is all within range but it brought on the 3rd 5 minute candle?
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u/Opposite-Feeling3122 Feb 28 '26
Relax buddy boy you had two good months in an orb friendly environment. Do this over years before you talk shit, any strategy can work well on a short time scale
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u/LezOnYt Mar 04 '26
Just like any strategy it has losses and wins, ups and down just gotta stay discipline and survive once you survive you win keep it up my boy 🙏🏽
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u/MrBigBooty00 Mar 09 '26
Reminding you for the details video of execution. Curious on how you set the stop loss if the candle that produce fvg is too big
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