What is Scalping?

[Lasky366]

SCALPING (scalping)

Scalping is the trade that takes a few minutes at a small profit margin. For example, if scalping is 2% 3% or 5% profit, then you have to close the trade within minutes.
In Scalping  trading to have good strategy otherwise  the market will take all the profits without taking a big move in the opposite direction.

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[Yatsan]

This strategy is really good when you have a free time and just want to trade. This is what I am doing for a while and also scalping is best when the market is volatile, the up's and down are pretty big so you can make a lot of profit as long as you are doing it right, for example is setting a stop loss in every trade so you can't lose a large amount of money.

In addition, when you have a big capital, then this is for you 

[Bvvvp009]

By looking at that chart it's not looking that much easier than the swing and day trading.its much riskier than other two.

[Lanatsa]

By looking at that chart it's not looking that much easier than the swing and day trading.its much riskier than other two.

You are definitely right with that!

Among the trading ways on where a trader could use,the scalping is the hardest one based of on experience.Why?
You cant easily tell on where the price would go on a very short period of time.You can make use of TA but with small
timeframe it is really hard and SL would really be needed from time to time to limit out losses.
One price swing can fucked you up.

[logfiles]

I love this strategy. It teaches a trader to have self-discipline while trading which in turn ensures that the emotions do not get the better of you. Stop loss is a very important aspect in this strategy.

One thing worth noting thou is that one needs to have a sizable amount of money in the margin or futures account that they are going to use for trading in order to realize meaningful profits in fiat value without having to use very high leverages due to small price movements which could be very risky with sudden volatility of the asset price.

[pixie85]

I've seen people do that in real time on youtube. Some of those trades can be closed within a minute and bring 1% profit but it's not like they're trading a whole Bitcoin every time.
If you know what you're doing it's possible to have a steady income but at the same time this strategy is based on the market going up.

If you try scalping and get a stop loss after a stop loss at some point you may find it hard to get back that 10% lost in your last session.

[logfiles]

If you know what you're doing it's possible to have a steady income but at the same time this strategy is based on the market going up.

If you try scalping and get a stop loss after a stop loss at some point you may find it hard to get back that 10% lost in your last session.

You can make profits with both Bearish and Bullish trends of the markets with Margin/futures trading so long as you made perfect entry points so your statement is incorrect.

[milewilda]

If you know what you're doing it's possible to have a steady income but at the same time this strategy is based on the market going up.

If you try scalping and get a stop loss after a stop loss at some point you may find it hard to get back that 10% lost in your last session.

You can make profits with both Bearish and Bullish trends of the markets with Margin/futures trading so long as you made perfect entry points so your statement is incorrect.

Not an easy one but a very profitable kind of trading if you done it right.I highly believe that only a few who are capable on dealing with this kind of trading where it doesnt really care if it would a bull or in bearish trend.

Fast execution of orders neither making an entry or would make an exit.This isnt applicable to anyone but really worth of to try if you do have sufficient amount of time in dealing with active market.

[alex-nn]

Much easier to scalp with CScalp - google about it and watch tutorials because CScalp helps me to get profits trading futures on Binance. It's free soft and works with API well.

[asyakashi]

Looks easy when reading explanations about scalping. I tried it in several exchanges. not easy and not everyone wants to try this technique.
Emotional control is the key to profit in trading. forget the method.

[GreatArkansas]

I have experience with the Scalping method in trading. But those experiences were before when I was still new in trading and to be honest, I lost too much money way back before, and it's kinda difficult when you are new and tried to do this scalping method.
And besides that, you really need patience and time to do this method.

[adaseb]

Scalping is great because you can earn large % of profit however in reality its very difficult to do so profitabily. You are better off trading the higher timeframes like H4 and D1 rather than trading the M1. Sure we all want to be daytraders for a living but there is so much noise at the M1 level that there is a small percentage of traders that actually earn a living this way.

Most large traders just take trades off the H4-W1 charts because they want to follow the trend, they also got larger stops since their take profit is much larger, hence they got a large Risk reward ratio compared to scalping which is usually 1:1. Also with scalping you need to consider the spread and commissions that go along with it, so if you are scalping for half a percent of profit then your net profit will be very small right after fees, even with derivative brokers. With longer term trading the commissions don't really make much difference.

[FanEagle]

This strategy is really good

I love this strategy.

Not an easy one but a very profitable kind of trading if you done it right.

Please do not rush for a conclusion just by seeing the chart posted by OP. Unlike the levels marked in the chart, it would be too hard to find out where to go short/long and where to put stop-loss. Even you may do 3 to 5 profitable trades in a day, the next day one big loss will wipe out all your efforts.

Always strategies are seeming easier and profitable but in practical they are not. One usual problem with most indicators is time lagging; it means it will generates the signal only after the actual turning point. This is the reason the explanation of strategies or indicators are looking very much easier in books and complete different in markets.

Scalping requires to catch exact turning points of markets which must be too hard by any indicator or strategy. If you opt to catch small swings of markets then you may start losing bigger trends. Trading is all about profits which is too easier by catching bigger trends of markets because profiting the longer waves require less hassles compared to scalping.

[bittraffic]

@Lasky366 which exchange in crypto are you doing the scalping?

I can see you are doing it on NYSE. Tried scalping in crypto but not much success. I have also heard few who tried also failed unless you are really good at taking advantage of the leverage offered by the exchanges. A bit change of price in a minute time frame could profit big even in a down trend.

[tbterryboy]

A bit change of price in a minute time frame could profit big even in a down trend.

That is all about the scalping. Just a bit of change. Leveraged trading environment must be most appropriate for scalping as you can make profits on both of market directions and when you trade with 100x leverage then you can make a $1 worth of movements into $100 profits. Still, we must need to consider about the negative movement of markets which means just a $2 loss will lead to auto square off if your account is not having enough remaining capital to withstand when level of leveraged is availed.

By considering the basic thump rule of trading which is, every trader must need to focus on protecting capital must be the most prioritized thing, I guess scalping is not at all my preferred way of trading.

[rathaha10]

Scalping is the trade that takes a few minutes at a small profit margin. For example, if scalping is 2% 3% or 5% profit, then you have to close the trade within minutes.
In Scalping  trading to have good strategy otherwise  the market will take all the profits without taking a big move in the opposite direction.

No doubt, lots of people are making profits from scalping but i think the reason why this method isn't mainstream is due to the fact that it requires lot of time, it requires a good emotion control and lot of trading expertise. I once opt in for it but i lose lots of fortune maybe reason being that i was relatively new to the whole market and ever since then, I've been skeptical about scalping. Thanks for sharing this post as my curiosity to learn and make profit with scalping just got triggered, i see a lot of people talked about using this method. I believe with proper understanding and my level of emotional control, i will scale through

[rexxarofmoknathal]

Like many on here already pointed out, 'scalping' can be prove to be generous stream of income but only works if the market provides the favourable conditions of market volatility, which as we know it it's not an issue. The real issue, though is at the user end because to practice this strategy you need to have the time and for me the stress level isn't worth the trouble. Nonetheless, for some this can be a decent option.

[TrevorS]

Scalping is an interesting topic, I studied it earlier.
However, I want to say that it is much more difficult to deal with it in the framework of stock markets because many assets follow certain trend lines,
and you can connect various types of analyzes, for example, news. Crypto market is not too predictable.

[RealMalatesta]

Like many on here already pointed out, 'scalping' can be prove to be generous stream of income but only works if the market provides the favourable conditions of market volatility, which as we know it it's not an issue. The real issue, though is at the user end because to practice this strategy you need to have the time and for me the stress level isn't worth the trouble. Nonetheless, for some this can be a decent option.

Never expect market to be your companion to provide you all the cushions for favoring with your directions. But always expect the unexpected things to happen which means scalping never will be fitting to be an stream of income. Still, if you want to adopt it so, then bitter lessons will tech you how stupid you are for considering the highly dangerous way for generating income.

There are lots of easier way of trading strategies are available especially for trading cryptos but definitely scalping cannot be one of them. Scalping is good for highly fluctuating markets but cryptos have its own way of trading to get enormous profits and this is the reason why many people are not at all suggesting scalping.

[Stedsm]

I've had been into forex for around 12 years and to what I've used scalping as, I'd say that scalping means a 5-10 minutes trade where you need to either book profits or losses, but during that timeframe only. You can set a trailing profit which will then adjust itself once you hit the minimum pips (points) decided by you and indicated in the bot. You need to use an ECN account or an account with the least spread among major currency pairs to take advantage of scalping.