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title: 'How to Master the 1-Minute Chart of the Mini Index'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mg8BOgD4AQ8'
video_id: 'Mg8BOgD4AQ8'
date: 2026-07-18
duration_sec: 550
channel: 'Os Traders Podcast'
---

# How to Master the 1-Minute Chart of the Mini Index

> Source: [How to Master the 1-Minute Chart of the Mini Index](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mg8BOgD4AQ8)

## Summary

This video provides a detailed analysis of trading the Brazilian Mini Index on a 1-minute chart, focusing on volume analysis, stochastic oscillator usage, and support/resistance strategies. The trader shares subjective insights on interpreting volume by price versus volume by time, and emphasizes the importance of simple, effective techniques like bipolarity and trend following.

### Key Points

- **Volume Analysis in Consolidation** [00:02] — In a consolidated market, volume can be analyzed by time (low volume per candle) or by price (high volume accumulation at a price level). The region of highest volume by price indicates market interest.
- **Volume as Interest Indicator** [01:44] — Strong price movements often start from regions of extreme interest (high volume). The trader uses this to identify key areas without relying on volume indicators directly.
- **Stochastic Divergence** [02:12] — Top divergence occurs when price makes higher highs but stochastic makes lower highs. This is considered but not the primary focus; the trader prefers using stochastic for timing entries.
- **Stochastic Cross Below 20** [03:26] — When stochastic crosses above 20 after being below, it signals the market is taking a breath. The trader prefers to enter long when the market is rising, not falling.
- **ABC Pattern and Elliott Waves** [04:09] — The trader does not count waves but studied Elliott to understand pivots and fractals. ABC patterns help identify corrections and potential continuations.
- **Bipolarity and Support/Resistance** [05:30] — Key points (bipolarity) are marked on the chart. If price breaks a previous important low and starts to fall back, it's a bearish sign. The index often respects these levels.
- **Sideways Market Strategy** [06:25] — In a sideways market, the trader looks for support to buy and resistance to sell. If a breakout occurs, they follow the new trend. Simple strategy: buy on dips in uptrend, sell on rallies in downtrend.
- **Risk Management and Trend Following** [07:37] — In trending scenarios, the trader carries trades as long as possible, using partial exits and stop losses. No strategy is infallible, but aligning with the trend increases success.
- **Simplicity is Key** [08:34] — The trader emphasizes that simple techniques like support/resistance, breakout, and bipolarity work well. Indicators can be removed; pure price action is effective.

### Conclusion

The trader advocates for a simple, disciplined approach to trading the Mini Index, using volume analysis, stochastic timing, and support/resistance levels. Success comes from understanding market structure and sticking to basic strategies.

## Transcript

volume, man, you don't know... you know something I noticed that's interesting, and this goes a little more into the subjective part of the analysis... um, if I have a consolidated market, there are two ways to analyze volume because the chart
has two axes: the time factor and the price factor. You can analyze volume in two ways: volume in time and volume in price. Uh-huh, in a slow, consolidated market, like the one we were seeing, it started to lock in volume by time. You
'll see several candles with little volume, but in volume by price, that's the region of the day with the highest volume accumulation, you understand? So I noticed a bit of this market subjectivity. Having a lot of volume or little volume, depending on the
perspective, the consolidation will show me candles with little volume, but by price, it's the region of highest volume of the day. So, how do we generally of the day. So, how do we generally use volume? Our market left a
We understand that it's an area of ​​value, it's of interest to the market because it's breaks through can accelerate for various reasons, stops, etc. So I was able to perceive that the movement of the chart was already able to bring this to me... wow, the
market...  It accelerated strongly, I know that the volume for that price there is empty, but maybe the volume at that minute, in that candle, in that candle is important, so I managed, in my interpretation of the market, to
translate where I have a region of interest because I saw that if the market moved very strongly, the chance of it having moved super empty market, but knowing the liquidity we have in the market,
most of the time for the market to move a lot, the beginning of that movement is a region of extreme interest. Ah, you understand? So, I don't put it, but I studied it so much that I managed to bring an analogy to the price, to
translate the volume for me. You look at the top divergence of the stochastic oscillator, higher tops and the stochastic oscillator with lower tops, like in the index today, for example, right at the beginning of the day, even there, around 9 am,
exactly, we have the stochastic oscillator with lower tops there and stochastic oscillator with lower tops there and the price with higher tops, right? Exactly, and how do you look at this or not? I like to  I take that into consideration, but it's
generally not what I'm looking for. Okay, you're looking for exactly that, on average, exactly, that basic, good stuff. When the price comes below the average but it's still crossed, I wait. Oh, it came down here, it already crossed,
Sometimes I pay a little later, but it came back above the average, that's a confirmation I have that it's coming here. It was an ABC and it's coming for an attempt at a new movement, but it failed to reach the top, man, it didn't renew
that high, it's already starting to come back, I get more worried, okay, you understand? Then I prioritize the next ones, man, and even more so if it didn't reach the top, it renewed that bottom, then forget it, that's the maximum sign that, man, it might even do that
The market happens, the index especially, right? That dynamic doesn't happen, but what happens, what I've noticed most of the time when I have directional tops and bottoms and the market is correcting to the next average,
and I take a look at the stochastic oscillator, it gives me very good timing because usually when the stochastic oscillator crosses... Below 20, crossing upwards is when the market is starting to take a breath, and I like to enter the
market when it's going up, not when it's coming down. Oh, you trade you buy. I don't like to do that because in a scenario where it goes straight through, oh, put, it takes me, confirmed, confirm that it held there. To recover,
I wait for the minimum defense, man, it started to breathe, I already have one, it's already which I know that losing this here starts to get weird. So I have more confirmations that in fact the market is coming, it can come more easily
in favor of C. And you commented on ABC, do you use this wave counting, IOT? Do you you use this wave counting, IOT? Do you like it? I don't count waves, but I studied like it? I don't count waves, but I studied Elliott quite a bit to understand a lot
about pivots, for example, right? IOT studies a lot about fractals. I started here talking about looking at a one-minute chart precisely to make this connection through a one- minute chart to a smaller fractal, seeing the whole that technically represents this
larger chart. So, even a little of what we were talking about there about the size.  From the screen to see the whole picture, right? Let me see as much as I can here. Look, I me see as much as I can here. Look, I can already see... Oh, a day
and a half... I can look quite a bit of historical data back, so I don't, for example, look at a 1-minute chart in that kind of zoom; it doesn't make sense. You're looking at the candle, and if you zoom out a lot, it becomes a
line chart, which isn't bad, right? A line chart is often good for identifying points; it summarizes a lot of important things for me. So, I As I said, I don't draw for a minute, I put it on five, sometimes I don't
want to switch to five. I zoom out a lot, and I can see, mark my points, I can see what the point of interest is. Just this basic information here, the bipolarity of points. You see, look,
you marked a line up there in a top region, and this top, for example, you just marked... Look, it broke the Pub, it broke, it came Pub, Pub, Pub, there's that, right? There are the
classic violations of the index, especially with a ladder...  It keeps going back and forth, but as previous important low, if it loses that low and starts to fall back, forget it, it's going to fall back quite a bit. The index does that; it loses a low, it loses an important point. If
fine, it'll continue its life. You can consider that point as a bipolar pattern. Now, losing a little bit and starting to fall back, man, that's good trickery, that's trickery. So, what we were talking about there is that the
market is cyclical, a trending market. When the market is very strong downward movements and in the upward movement, you catch several long movements. But you take, for example, here, and for those who like
type of sideways market that we were in until today, which today came to break that final high from yesterday, actually it broke through, and before that I was talking Look at the market we're in again, even though I trade in the minute,
again, even though I trade in the minute, look at the last few days, the market is stuck here, stuck. How are we going to do this then?"  Even looking at the 1-minute chart, it fell, so we're going to look for support to buy. Wow, it
'm looking for a sell. You wait for resistance to sell. If it breaks, if it breaks upwards, then I break and hold, then the market changes. That's my opinion hold, then the market changes. That's my opinion until the scenario changes, right, expert? So,
this is a very simple strategy. You're not just going to be blindly account peaks and troughs. But in a scenario where I'm in favor of the trend, troughs, I make a buy. Stochastic comes below 20, the market
is in a downtrend, Stochastic above 80. It's something simple that I properly, and then it comes back, applying risk management in a trending scenario. Man, we carry as much as
trending scenario. Man, we carry as much as possible. We've already taken trades. Okay, partial, exit, then take Stop Game, take Stop too, right? There's nothing infallible in variable income, but we've already taken three where we're willing to
ride as much as possible. If it's going to be a problem, then I say, " Take it," I feel that agility of the market to evolve.  Okay guys, hold on! This one's got that nasty vibe, I'm looking at it more closely. I made a purchase, for example, this purchase is breaking the
important high, it's making higher lows, right? In the whole scenario, there's room to move, hold on! Eventually, I tell the guys, the stars are aligned, right? It's going the right way, the long-term trend is towards side 7, and
we're positioned. I say, guys, hold on, this is the trade to make the jump, and we can make these cool operations. It's the day to surpass the target, exactly! I like
simple is literally very sophisticated, I think it works much better. And so, I brought indicators that I really like, from the indicators that I really like, from the technical part of trading, but what
removing this zoom and marking support, you can remove all these indicators, what are you going to do? It's useless in this case, man. You do the pure PR section, pure support, resistance, breakout,
bipolarity, the first retest, man, forget it. If you want to remove everything from the screen, do it!  That alone is wonderful; the simple things work very well; rice with the simple things work very well; rice with beans never disappoints.