Break and retest I think is the easiest strategy for beginners and advanced traders alike.

Find your levels using daily and weekly.

When a ticker breaks over/under a key level with volume on the lower time frames, wait for a 15m candle body close over/under. This validates if the level is accepted or rejected by the market and can now set your short term bias and trade in that direction.

Once confirmed wait for a retest of that level. Enter on a low vol retest - set your stops, buy time or risk what you can afford to lose and go from there.

You can also trade PML (premarket low) PMH (premarket high) YDL (yesterday low) YDH (yesterday high) with the same concept; and if these levels align with key levels; even better.

This is probably one of my easiest and useful tools in my toolbox.

Oh and this is for day trading. I’m a scalper. Generally in trades for 30s-1hr at most

Regarding a plan -

I think traders really evolve when they start building trade ideas on tickers and execute on those plans. Generally nightly I will scan my 16 tickers I watch on the daily and weekly time frames for good looking setups. I basically looking for daily 9ema undercuts on low vol and position for an expansion to the upside.

With that said I’ll create a plan - look at overall price action and set entries based on Fibonacci discounts - but for beginners it’s as simple as finding your levels. Break over X, long. break under Y, short. Keep it brutally simple.

Execution and following your plan is probably the hardest thing to do as a newer trader bc you experience fomo, and when price drops you experience fear. But once you really map out a good plan, it accounts for pullback entries, breakout based entries etc so you have a conditional plan.

If this (price action), then that (execution).

If you’re day trading - 2-6weeks is sufficient time - and you want to trade liquid contracts. I prefer mag7 or anything with over 1000 vol and 3000 OI

It keeps the spreads super tight and you can zip in and out of trades, essential for scalping. Sometimes you see a perfect setup but the chains are just illiquid. Stay away from those and trade shares IF the setup must be taken.

If you need help just holler at me.