$37,849 With One Setup: Why Anita Trades Only Market Ranges
Welcome to this week’s HyroTrader Funded Trader article.
Today, we highlight Anita, who built her entire trading system based on Market Structure and Price Action. This whole system boils down to one notion: Ranges. Anita always says the price can predict major events that have not happened yet.
Why Ranges Instead of Trends
Q: Why did you choose to trade only market ranges?
A: Ranges have clear maximums and minimums. Even the tops and bottoms have their own extremes on lower time frames. This offers a lot of space for traders to fill their orders.
On the other hand, when markets trend, traders often improvise and expand risk when adding to positions. In ranges, rules are clearer. I have Fibonacci set for each range and clear rules on how to react if the price develops on certain levels.
Q: How do you define a tradable range?
A: When a new, significantly higher time frame low/high is created, the price needs to retest and grab the liquidity in front of the previous move. The next step is to create a range for the price to engineer liquidity on both sides.
You can get some high probability traders early in the range, from deviations and fake-outs. Obviously, these happen early within the first 2-4 moves and tests of the extreme levels. Doing this later on can invalidate your trade setup.
After that, just try to understand the existing trend, potential liquidity levels to aim towards to prepare for the movement away from the range.
Q: How do you execute trades inside a range?
A: I only trade near the extremes. I do not trade the middle. Entries are taken at range highs or lows with tight invalidation. If price reacts, I let the trade play out and take some partial profits. If it breaks, I exit immediately. Simple. Mechanical.
Can anyone do that? Not without the discipline to stick to it.
Q: How do you manage risk and frequency?
A: Risk is fixed at 0.75% per trade, with a maximum of two trades per range. If a structure fails twice, I stop trading it completely.
Q: How do you review your performance?
A: I strongly prefer limit orders over market orders, so my review starts there. I check whether trades were executed only at predefined levels. There is a big difference:
Market opens are often based on my emotions and “feelings” rather than strategy. Limit orders force my strategy to be used.
I reviewed how price reacted at the open, whether my levels were respected, and if risk was defined before entry. I do not judge the day by how much $ were made. The only metric I use is percentage.
Strategy Summary
This trader’s system is built around simplicity and repetition:
- Market ranges only
- Clearly defined highs and lows
- Entries at extremes only
- Immediate exit on structure failure
- Fixed risk per trade
- No trading outside valid ranges
What advice would you give to traders trying to get funded?
Most traders fail because they trade too many ideas at once.
One setup, executed the same way every time, with controlled risk, is enough to pass and scale. I read the book How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, by Nicolas Darvas, where the author built success by repeating one idea over and over.
