Interview noteThis page restates a public interview in new words. Dollar results, win rates, and payouts are claims made by the speaker or the host. They are not this desk's record, and they are not a result to expect.
Harry Sharp says that the method behind his public track record is three steps, and that the last of them is the small one. Story and bias come first, then the zone, then the entry. He puts the button-press at about five percent of the work. The host frames him as someone who has traded live on YouTube for three years, with entries and exits left in a history anyone can check, and as someone the channel says has been making five figures a month. Harry says the win rate on that tracker is 70 percent and something, maybe 73 or 75, taken mostly at one-to-one. He also says the same process is what he would take to a trading world cup. Those are his figures and the host's framing of the public record, not a separate audit.
He trades inside a session, not across a whole day. Asia, London, New York, the New York Stock Exchange open, and the power hour are the windows. He is at the screen for about an hour to an hour and a half, then he leaves. Extra time, in his account, adds variance and is how a day gets ruined. The four-hour chart is the reason the distinction matters. A day contains more than one four-hour candle, and one four-hour candle is about the length of a session. He is an intraday scalper who renamed the job so the session, not the calendar day, is the unit.
Two candles set the session bias
Before the open he wants a direction. Without one he can sell the low, buy the high, and sell again, each time with a fresh story. With one, every pullback and every continuation is the same trade seen from one side.
The technical version is two closed candles. The previous day's daily candle, and the four-hour candle that closed before the session he is about to trade. The four-hour candle still forming is the session itself, so it does not count. If both closed bullish, he treats the session as more likely bullish. If both closed bearish, he treats it as more likely bearish. He uses those two candles because together they say what the previous day did and what the previous session did. A one-hour candle is too short to stand in for the pre-session.
When the daily and the four-hour disagree, he calls it a mixed bias. Both sides can be argued, so the story has to break the tie. The daily is the stronger of the two candles, and a bullish daily with sound structure makes the next daily close more likely to be bullish as well. That does not help him directly. He is not holding for the next daily candle. He needs the story so the next hour is accurate.
The weekly chart is the instruction manual
He starts the story on the weekly. He rejects the habit of saying the lower time frame builds the higher one, even though the lower candles do print first. He wants the higher time frame read as the instruction manual, and the lower time frame as the pieces that are supposed to follow it. So he asks whether the weekly structure is bullish before he looks at anything smaller.
His rule for structure is visual and plain. An uptrend is an upward staircase, higher highs and higher lows. A downtrend is the staircase inverted, lower highs and lower lows. If the zigzag will not resolve into either staircase, it is a box, and a box is chop. He does not ask a beginner to feel this. He asks them to compare the last high with the one before it, and the last low with the one before it.
From the weekly he drops to the daily and asks where price sits. A market that has already rallied hard is a more expensive place to buy, and continuation needs a reason: the strategy and the zone still to come, or a fundamental push he can name. On the Nasdaq he offers the kind of reason he means, such as earnings or a number that actually supports the move. If he cannot name one, he proceeds carefully. He marks horizontal levels as he walks down the time frames, once a week on the weekly and once a day on the daily, and only the levels near where he will actually trade. A market sitting on daily resistance at the start of the session is a question mark. Buying into that question is, in his words, silly. He knows other traders reach for gamma and related tools to guess whether the level will break. He does not. Each added confirmation is another probability, and stacking them adds variance. Fewer variables means fewer things that can be wrong.
The same map tells him which side of a level he is allowed to take. If the story is bullish and price is at daily resistance, he does not sell the level just because it might reject. Selling there bets against the bias. He waits for the fade and then looks for the buy, or he waits for a real breakout and trades that. Some days the bias is bullish, price is pinned to resistance, and the correct trade is no trade.
The zone is where the path is clean
The zone is market positioning. He scrolls the fifteen-minute, and he has already done the same pass on the four-hour, looking for a clean range: a stretch of candles that moved from one place to another without building support and resistance in between. Speed is optional. The absence of shelves is the point. A path that chopped, bounced, and chopped again is a messy zone, and selling or buying through it is how traders get trapped on every minor shelf. A path that was clean before has a better chance of being clean again. If the day is bullish and a clean zone sits under price, that zone is where he wants the entry to form.
Positioning inside the range is the second filter. For a long, the prime prices are the discounted ones, low in the range or in the middle. By the time the daily candle has closed he is often already in the middle, and he treats that as acceptable because the close itself is information. Buying the high of the range, with daily resistance overhead and little room left, is what he calls cowboy trading. On the Nasdaq he is trying to take something like 50 to 80 points, not an 800 or 1,000 point campaign, so he does not need to be filled at the absolute low. He still refuses to invent the break. An uptrend respects lows and breaks highs, and a level on the daily is only confirmed when the daily leaves it. A five-minute or one-minute poke through can be a fake. If the daily has not passed the level, he comes back tomorrow.
Mixed bias flips the use of that same high. If the larger story is a downtrend and the rally into resistance was only the retracement, the high is a place to sell again, with the range he just marked as room to cover. A fully bearish bias makes that high the prime short, the long diagram turned over.
Support and resistance, when he marks them, sit on the closes. The wick is the extreme. The close is where price settled. A resistance he trusts is a pivot he can see: a bullish close followed by a bearish close, with the line on the bodies. Support is the mirror, a red candle followed by a green close. He uses the most recent one. On the worked example he shows an older daily resistance that closed above, with clean candles to the left, and the next candle filling toward the following resistance. The same behavior he wants on the five-minute is already visible on the daily.
Liquidity, then a close, then a spring
The entry exists to answer one question: continuation, or pullback. Liquidity is the first ingredient. The market builds it by dipping through a prior level, the move other traders call a break of structure and sell. He calls it a liquidity grab, or trap trading. Bias is what keeps that dip from becoming his short. If the session is bullish, the dip is the opportunity. If the day then trends down, he was wrong about the bias and he has no position. He would rather find out he was wrong for free and go look for the speech or the headline that did it.
He also wants liquidity from structure. A balanced market is a range, in theory a fight between buyers and sellers who are roughly matched. A trend is imbalance, and imbalance is what he wants to be in. Balance is useful only because it is the accumulation that imbalance breaks out of. A small grab under that range is welcome. What he then needs is a close through the structure, on the fifteen-minute or the five-minute. He drops to the five when volume is high, and he stays on the fifteen when price is sluggish and he wants the extra confirmation. A beginner, he says, should start on the fifteen. The five is too easy to panic on until the pattern has been watched.
The structure itself should be more than a single opposing candle. One bearish candle is technically a structure. He wants two at a minimum, and he likes a range of them, sellers failing and getting absorbed, followed by one convincing candle that closes above. That close is the green light, and only inside the zone whose left side is clean.
He does not buy the close. He wants a spring. Think of liquidity as a rubber band: price pulls it back and lets go. After the candle closes above the range, the next candle has to print a high, a top wick. The candle after that has to trade down. It does not have to tag the range. A deeper bottom wick is a bigger spring, and it is the sellers' last attempt. If they win, his order never fills. If price then breaks the high of that pullback candle, that break is the entry, and he places it as a buy stop so the order is waiting. The stop goes under the candle that closed above the range. With experience he will tuck it under structure inside that candle to improve the payoff. The simple version is the low of the candle, with no fixed tick offset.
A tiny wick is not a spring. He calls it a nipple wick: price opens, barely dips, breaks the high, triggers the breakout buyers, and falls back into the range because the auction was not finished. He stands aside. If that fake then drives back to the bottom of the range, he can buy the low later, having skipped the trap. The difference between a real bottom wick and a nipple is mostly experience. He almost offers five points on the Nasdaq as a floor, then withdraws it, because the same picture on the Dow or on gold would be a different number, and he will not freeze one number for every market. There has to be a bottom wick. More is better.
The breakout candle has a shape. It should show conviction. A doji, or a close that sits weakly on the level, does not qualify. A close that is enormously far through the level does not qualify either. His mechanical cut for a newer trader is the range itself: if the breakout candle is more than about half the height of the range, it is too big, the stop is ridiculous, and the volume he wanted to be part of has already been spent. On a short example he measures a candle of about 51 points against a range of about 76. That candle is over half the range, the next candle pulls back before it continues, and the better entry is the pullback, not the chase.
One-to-one, then a choice
He targets one-to-one on purpose, and he argues with the reflex to demand more reward than risk. If the market is not offering more, asking for more is how the payout gets missed. His statistic for the one-to-one is the breakout candle. A lot of the time, he says about 70 percent, the next candle delivers about the same volume as the candle that broke the range. That is why a stop under the signal candle and a target one time that distance is the base case, and why he could tighten the stop and advertise a prettier ratio but mostly did not. The other target is the next level that ends the zone, usually the next fifteen-minute or one-hour resistance, whichever comes first. Five-minute levels are not worth marking in any quantity.
He still does not rest a take-gain on the book. A fixed target would cut him out of a candle that runs. The stop is non-negotiable. The target is a level he can see and a one-to-one he can take. At one-to-one, or sooner if a real level arrives first, the stop moves to break-even. Early in the week his default is to bank the one-to-one and be done. If the positioning is better, low in the range with room, he will let a piece run, sometimes as a second entry: one to pay him, one to see how far the imbalance goes. A nearby resistance does not automatically cancel a long when the story is bullish and an uptrend's job is to break highs and respect lows. If the space beyond that resistance is smaller than the stop and the story is strong, he will still try the break and scratch at break-even if it fails.
Speed changes the decision. A straight run of green candles, especially once he is near two times risk, is a reason to take the money, not to hold for more. His line is that fast movement is the moment before the pullback. The trained response is that the open gain is about to be lost, so it gets closed. Holding through that and watching a two-R trade fall back through one-R to the entry is the outcome he is avoiding. On the New York replay he moves the stop to break-even once one-to-one prints, points at open gain of about $4,000, and then closes into the acceleration rather than waiting for daily resistance.
Whether the day is a continuation or a pullback is also read from the session that just happened. Bullish bias with no real push yet, a London range and only a small lift, is a New York continuation: structure, close, spring, buy stop, including right at the 9:30 New York open when one candle can do the whole job. London already trended, and he waits for the pullback, because New York, most of the time, wants a better price. If price continues without him, he waits for the next structure and tries again. The failed version of the open is the one he uses as a tell. A single liquidity candle at the open, with no build, is not the setup. The long sideways-then-break version happens because that open spring did not. No close above the structure, and no real bottom wick, means the breakout buyers are the liquidity.
How a level stays valid
Session time is what makes a level eligible. He wants London open, New York open, the New York Stock Exchange open, power hour, or the Asian session. His own New York window is 9:30 a.m. Eastern, traded for about an hour. Inside that hour, if the pattern prints, it counts.
A level breaks on a close, on the time frame where the level was built. A wick through it does not break it. Repeated wicks make it stronger. Price can tap a New York high, fail, tap it again the next morning, and the level is more valid, not less. A five-minute close through a fifteen-minute level is not a break of the fifteen-minute level. He needs the fifteen-minute to leave a fifteen-minute level. The five-minute exists because the New York open often hides the whole structure inside one green fifteen-minute candle. When the fifteen-minute itself has the structure, he has to use the fifteen-minute.
Pre-session information changes the positioning. A push already completed before his session means the market is no longer at the cheap part of the range, so he looks for the pullback. No push, and a bullish bias, and he will take the continuation when the structure confirms it.
The two passes on the chart
The first replay is the New York trade he says he took the day before the interview, on the Nasdaq. Daily price is at resistance, so buying the high is already a poor location. The previous daily and the previous four-hour both closed bullish, which is a bullish session, and the four-hour has just wicked under a range and returned, the spring on a higher time frame. The four-hour resistance is still overhead, so if the market turns back up he has range. The one-hour and the thirty-minute agree that the path is clean. Into the open, price grabs the highs. There is no close above and no bottom wick, so the breakout traders are the ones who pay, and the drop that follows is discount, not a short. He will not sell a bullish session because the morning dumped. His rule is structure first, and there is no short structure there.
The thirty-minute then closes bullish off the support, which he reads as the lower time frame agreeing to follow the higher one. The fifteen-minute makes a smaller structure change, not a full two-candle version. The five-minute builds the range he wants. On the break he parks a buy stop at the high and waits for the bottom wick. The five-minute later closes red, and he does not cancel. It closed red above the range. A close back inside the range would have killed the order. The pullback also prints a small staircase of higher lows, which he treats as the uptrend, not as a negation. The fifteen-minute is still closing bullish above the range, so the order stays. The next bottom wick triggers it. The stop is under that first breakout candle. One-to-one is the first place he can take it. He does not. He moves the stop to break-even and keeps the trade while the path to daily resistance is open, then closes when the push goes vertical, already past a one-to-one and into what he treats as enough.
The second example is the same bias the next morning, taken by traders using the method while he was asleep, around 4:45 a.m. his time. They do not buy the highs. Daily resistance has spent the session producing fake breaks. They wait for the pullback and for a candle to close above the range. Clean candles, a range, a close above, a real bottom wick that does not need to retest the level, a buy stop at the high, a stop under the breakout candle, and a target at the next resistance. He measures that one at about 1 to 1.4.
What he leaves in and what he leaves out
The whole method is discretionary inside a fixed sequence. Story on the weekly and daily, session bias from the previous daily and the previous four-hour, a clean zone, a range that builds liquidity, a close through that range on the time frame of the range, a bottom wick that is not a sliver, a buy stop at the high, a stop under the signal candle, and a one-to-one that is allowed to become a break-even runner only when the positioning deserves it. He will buy highs when the market is actually breaking them, and he will buy pullbacks when the market wants the discount. He will not do either into a daily level that has not been left behind, and he will not add indicators to feel safer about it.
The public win rate, the five-figure months, and the claim that two candles are enough to aim at a world-cup result are Harry's and the host's account of his recorded trading. The video is a walkthrough of the rules and two chart replays, not a tabulated export of the tracker.