--- title: 'Free Bitcoin Scalping Strategy: 5-Minute Setup with Pivot and RSI' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=-8LBMNGqvXk' video_id: '-8LBMNGqvXk' date: 2026-07-13 duration_sec: 1232 --- # Free Bitcoin Scalping Strategy: 5-Minute Setup with Pivot and RSI > Source: [Free Bitcoin Scalping Strategy: 5-Minute Setup with Pivot and RSI](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-8LBMNGqvXk) ## Summary This video presents a free trading strategy for Bitcoin on the 5-minute timeframe, using two indicators: the 'pu pu pu' indicator (based on pivots and a 12-period EMA) and the RSI. The strategy involves entering trades when price closes beyond a pivot and the moving average, with risk management rules including partial profit-taking and divergence filtering. ### Key Points - **Strategy Overview** [00:01] — The strategy is designed for Bitcoin on a 5-minute timeframe, using two indicators: 'pu pu pu' (pivots + 12 EMA) and RSI (14 period). It is not 100% mechanical; filtering is required for profitability. - **Indicator Setup** [02:05] — The 'pu pu pu' indicator is private; link in description. Add to TradingView favorites, then configure: data entry set to 12 and 400. RSI is public, set length to 14. - **Entry Rules** [05:03] — For short: green pivot, price closes below EMA → entry at close, stop above high, take profit at 1.17 ratio. For long: red pivot, price closes above EMA. Enter via limit order at the close level, waiting for retest. - **Trade Management** [08:17] — At TP (1.17), close 75% of position and move stop loss to entry. Remaining 25% runs until hourly RSI divergence signals exit. - **RSI Divergence Filter** [10:10] — Bearish divergence: price higher high, RSI lower high → full risk trade. No divergence → half risk. Bullish divergence: price lower low, RSI higher low. - **Operational Filters** [15:25] — Avoid trades when price compresses against EMA (tight stop). Be cautious of 'ladder of death' when RSI loses direction. Trade with hourly trend for higher success. - **Complementary Strategies** [18:09] — Combine with support/resistance, order blocks, or POC levels. Wait for pivot at interest area, then apply strategy. ### Conclusion The strategy is profitable only with proper trade filtering. Practice on a demo account first, and join the community for live trading sessions. ## Transcript Are you looking for a profitable, clear, and 100% free trading strategy? In this strategy we use every day live, which is delivering live, which is delivering incredible results to the entire make it clear that I did not create this strategy . The geniuses behind it are Zcoin TV and Scott FDX. I've been using it for years with excellent results, and in this video I'm going to explain how to get the most out of it to maximize your return on investment . Okay, let's start from the beginning, which is what this strategy is based on. This strategy is primarily designed for the Bitcoin asset on a 5-minute timeframe. While it altcoins, this strategy was designed and for the Bitcoin asset on a 5-minute timeframe. Okay, for this strategy we're going to need two indicators. One of them is the one we see on screen right now. This indicator is charismatically nicknamed "pu pu pu" and is primarily based on pivot generation and a 12-period exponential moving average. The pivots are this red line and this green line that you currently see on the chart, okay? And the white line is the 12-period exponential moving average. This is the core of the strategy. The next indicator we're going to use in conjunction with this one is the reactive force index, the RCI, and it's the one we see below. This indicator measures the strength of the price and is an essential complement that we will need for our strategy. Something important to keep in mind is that this strategy is not 100% mechanical. Although the parameters are fully defined, a series of filters must be used to filter certain operations and achieve a much higher rate of return. This strategy will be highly profitable if we know how to filter the operations correctly. Good? And that's something we'll see later in this video. Now that we know the tools we will need to operate with this strategy, let's move on to how to configure these two indicators. Okay? One is completely public and is the RCI, the relative strength index, but the pup puup is a private indicator. Therefore, I'm going to leave the link in the description so you can go, click the link and it will take you to this page. Once you are on this page, in this box, you will see "add to favorites". I see the delete option because I already have it. Click "Add to favorites", return to TradingView, go to the indicators section at the top, and the indicator will appear see "puup". Once you have it here, press it and it will be added to the graph. Okay, once you have it on the chart, let's move on to configuring it. Although it comes configured by default, fully set up. To configure it, we're going to double-tap somewhere on the indicator, okay? Once we press twice, this box will pop up. We'll go to the section that says " data entry" and make sure that this box is set to 12 and the box below it is set to 400. Okay, once we have this, it will be fully configured. Then there's the style aspect, which is purely aesthetic. What I do in this particular case is go to the EMA section and set it up in a staggered way, which is normally configured as a single line. Okay? I do it in stages. Once we have it configured, the PU will be completely ready to operate. Now we need to configure the RCI. The RCI, remember that it is the relative strength index . The RCI will be found completely publicly in this section of indicators. Let's go back to the indicators section and let's look at RSI. Once we enter RSI, the relative strength index will appear here, and you can add it to your favorites if you want. Okay? They come, they press it, and once they press it, it will appear on the graph. Remember that if you don't have a maximum of two indicators. Okay? Once you add it to the RCI, it will appear like this. Press somewhere, make sure you press here this will happen, okay? Press right on the line and it will pop up to configure the RCI. They're going to enter the data and make sure the RCI length is set to 14. That's all we'll need for setup. Next, we move on do—this is also purely aesthetic—is remove aesthetic—is remove the yellow line and add the RCI logo so it looks a little better, right? There it is. Now we have both indicators fully configured. With this in mind, we can now move on to the next step, which is how to use this strategy. Okay, let's start with the basics, the heart of this strategy, which is the pu indicator. As we said before, this indicator consists of the generation of pivots and a 12-period exponential moving average . Okay, but how do we approach trading with this indicator? Okay, when the price leaves a green pivot point, remember that this strategy can be used for both short and long positions. When the price leaves a green pivot and closes below the moving average, notice here that it left a pivot and closed below the moving average. At this point we have a short position. Where do we get in? Right where the price closes below the moving average, right at that crossover. That's where we put our entry. Where will our stop loss be located? It's going to be above the maximum. Stops above the maximum and at the first profit take at the 1.17 ratio. Not in 2, not in 11, but in 1,17. Notice that you can see it in this little number here. Okay. Once we have the entry point profit point, and the entry itself, we need to keep in mind that we are not going to enter the market, okay? We are not going to enter the market. Because? Because if this candle closes, it will close here, and if we enter the market, we therefore, we would not be respecting the parameters. Okay, to enter the market we have to place a limit order where the price closes below the moving average. In this case, that would be where we have the entrance. We're going to place a limit order there, which means we'll have to wait for the price to retest that point, and then we'll be entering the market. In this case, as you can see, the price did not retest the moving average, so we could not have entered this trade. In this case, since it did not test the moving average and has already reached the profit take point, we would have to cancel the trade. Remember that when the trade is completed and our order is not tested , we have to completely cancel the operation. Because? Because the strategy's trajectory has already been completed, that trade has already been executed. The problem is that they didn't test the order in example, which could be with a long position like this one here. Notice that the price left a red pivot point, then the price rose and closed above the moving average, therefore we have a long position. The entry point is where the price closes above the moving average. The this case because we are in a long position, and the take-profit point, as I always take-profit point, as I always tell you, is at the 1.17 ratio. There we already have a long operational process, which also took place. And look at this case, when the price closed, we placed our order, the price came back and tested. Therefore, we were able to enter this time and it went smoothly. To see one more example and make it clear, let's look at another operation. In this case, it's this short position, where the price left a green pivot point and closed below the moving average. This gives us an entry point. We place the entry point where it closes, the stop loss above the high, and the profit take point at the 1.17 ratio. It also worked perfectly, and notice how it also tested. Okay. So here we have three examples, which turned out well. Okay. I want us to delve a little deeper into the operational management of this strategy, because yes, when we reach the profit take point, we don't close 100% of the trade, but rather when we reach the profit take point, we will close profit take point, we will close 75% of the trade. Okay, we're going to close 75% of the trade once the price touches our take- profit level and we're going to adjust our stop-loss to the entry point. Remember this, it's very important. Whenever the price reaches the profit take point , we close 75% of the position and place the stop loss at the entry point. In this way, if the price, after touching our profit take point, sticks on the return, it would take us out at break even and that 25% would not represent a loss. Okay, otherwise, if the price continues to fall, that 25% that we left open of the position would continue to generate profits, as in this case where we see that 25% of this operation is still running at the present time. It's giving us a ratio of 1.5, almost 1.6 at the current price. In this way, we not only benefit from that first TP, but we will also keep that 25%, which can bring us very, very big benefits. Okay, so when do we close that 25% deal ? We will be able to close that 25% when we see a divergence between the price and the RCI on the hourly chart. That's right, the RCI, another tool we're going to use for this strategy. Remember that at the beginning I told you that we are going to need two tools. Okay, let's move on to the implementation of the RCI that we're going to use to take trades in this strategy, because we're not only going to take trades when the price leaves a pivot and closes below it. The RSI is a type of filter that we will need to know if that operation is valid or not. Okay, I have the RCI hidden, but if I press it twice it will appear. Okay, so how do we implement RCI with this strategy? The RCI will also tell us if the operation is valid and if the operation is with full risk or with half risk. What do full risk and half risk mean? Remember that when trading professionally, we always have to risk the same amount on each stop loss. Let's take an example. Let's assume our account is $1,000. If our total risk, let's say, is 2% of our account, okay? Of the 2% of our account, that operation will be $20. Okay, so far so good. And that operation is going to be entirely risky. What does half risk mean? That will be half the risk we usually use in each stop loss. In this case, half the risk would be 1%, which would represent, sorry, $10. This example can be extrapolated to any account size. If you have an account of $10,000, perhaps your total risk is 2%, which represents $200, because 2% of 10,000 is 200. That's where we stand. So we have full risk and half risk. Okay, but how do I know if it's full risk or half risk? Okay, that's when we use the RCI to identify whether we have divergence or not . Because? Because if we do n't have a divergence, that trade will be half risk, and if we have a divergence between the price and the RCI, that trade will be full risk because there is a higher probability that the trade will develop correctly. And what is a divergence between price and RCI? Okay, I'm going to explain it briefly because I know that several people aren't very clear on it. A divergence between price and RCI is a discrepancy. This occurs when the price, in this case of a bearish divergence, makes higher highs, but the RCI makes lower highs. There is a discrepancy between the two. One is rising, the other is showing lower lows. What does this tell us? It indicates that the price is rising, but less sharply. Because? Because the RCI is making lower highs. However, the price is reaching higher highs. In this case, a bullish divergence shows us the opposite. It shows us that the price is making lower lows , but the RCI is making higher lows, which indicates that the drop is losing momentum and we may see a price increase. Do you understand? It is a sign of weakness that the price shows us with these types of divergences and it is an essential confirmation that we need to use for our strategy. So, going back to the practical side, we can see that this operation we outlined here had no divergence between the price and the RCI, since the RCI kept rising, it wasn't making low peaks, okay? Therefore, we did not have a divergence between the RCI price and therefore, this operation would have been carried out with half the risk. Do you understand? Look at this example, which is a fully risky operation . Because? Because we do have a divergence between the price of the RCI. Notice how the price made a higher high, however, the RCI made a lower high. Here we can see it in more detail. Okay, here we have a bearish divergence between the price and the RCI. Notice how the price pivoted. It closed below the moving average, the stop loss is above the high and the take profit point is at the 1.17 ratio. In this case we had a full risk operation with bearish divergence. Okay, before we move on to the operational filters and common mistakes made when using this strategy, I want us to do a brief recap of what we've seen. Therefore, to carry out an operation with this strategy, we need the indicator to leave a pivot, the price to close below the moving average, and the RCI to leave us with an extreme zone or divergence. Okay, those are the order. Once we see those requirements, we set the entry point moving average, the stop loss above the pivot, and the take profit at the pivot, and the take profit at the 1.17 ratio. Once the price reaches the profit take, we close 75% of the order and adjust the stop loss to the entry point. Once we have this management in place, we let the price run until we see a divergence between the price and the RCI on the hourly chart. When we see we could take another profit. Remember that when the price closes below the moving average, we don't enter the market, but instead place a limit order right when the price closes below the moving average. We place a limit order at that level and the price would have to how it closed below and the price retested, and then the trade occurred. Okay, moving on to the filters we need to consider when making a trade, I'm going to show you some of the most common ones, but as strategies we'll become aware of that discretion and which trades will be reliable and which will not. One of the things that the price usually does, and that we should avoid when it does it, is when the price is using the moving average. Let's assume in this case that the white line is the moving average, it comes using the resistance line. when it comes using the resistance one and ends up compressing too much. In this case, I try to filter out these types of operations, since it is very likely that the price will come and mark a lower low again, and also, with the stop loss point being so small, with minimal volatility it could take us out of the stop loss. So when we see a compression in the price, I try to avoid those trades. Another very important filter occurs when we trade against the trend. In this case we see how the operation yielded a first trade, which would be half risk because there is no divergence, but it is valid because the RCI reached an extreme zone. This is an example of the RCI. Look, this operation would be half risky. He stopped trading, went to stop loss, then stopped trading with full risk, which does have divergence, and also went to stop loss. Because? Because we are operating against the trend. So far there's nothing unusual, since the operation can easily have two consecutive stop-loss orders, but what happens? You have to be careful because this is called the ladder of death, okay? This "ladder of death" pattern occurs when the price is rising, but the RSC starts to lose direction. Notice how we had that divergence here, but then the RSI becomes directionless, without reaching that extreme zone again. Okay? We must be very, very careful when the price starts to form these types of structures, because if we don't notice, we can incur several losses. Remember that it's always better to trade with the trend, not against it . The most profitable trades, and those with the highest probability of success, will always be those that follow the trend. A good way to use the trend-following strategy is to follow the hourly chart trend and trade in its direction. When we identify an upward trend on the hourly chart, we will go down to the 5-minute timeframe and, using the " puupú" strategy, we will look for long trades in favor of the trend. Those would be pretty good operations and operations with a fairly high success rate . Another great thing I like to do with this strategy is to complement it with other strategies. Let's assume we have an area of ​​interest, whether it's a support, a resistance, a POC level, an order block, any area of ​​interest that we consider valid. We can expect the strategy to leave us with a pivot point. In this case, we have a resistance. Notice how he left a pivot. And in this case we would have to assess a bearish divergence and we could calmly take this trade. That would be a way to complement two strategies, would n't it? One strategy involves looking for an area of ​​interest, and the other strategy involves poop. In conclusion, this is a very good strategy, but our profitability will depend on our ability to filter the trades. mechanical strategy and if we take absolutely all the operations we will surely not be profitable. Okay, I recommend that those who want to try the strategy do so first on a demo account so as not to risk their money and learn how to manage the parameters well and learn how to place trades correctly. And also, as I say, learn to filter out those bad trades to try to obtain Similarly, in the Discord and Telegram communities, we will have prepared diagrams with all when operating and with all the parameters that are considered in this operation. Remember that this strategy is designed specifically for the Bitcoin asset on the 5-minute timeframe. I hope everything is clear. Remember that we also operate this strategy every day from Monday to Friday from 6 to 8 Argentine time live. We're on YouTube and Twitch, so I'll see you there and we'll Remember that this strategy is from Scott and Zcoin Coin. In the description I'll profiles; they're great streamers and they've really created a very good and well-executed strategy. If you have any questions, you can liked the video, please leave a like, it helps me a lot. And if you had trouble understanding it, you can watch the video again and take note of each point. That's all for today, and we'll see you in the next class. Chiao. Chiao. [Music] Turn back