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I have looked at Scalping in depth. Here and there you find some really good ideas, products and services.

 

What worries me about scalping is of this is NOT automated....unless you are super consistant...one will not be able to have for example a 3:1 win to loss ration all the time.

 

From what I understand you need to have consistant results to call it a system...else it is gambling.

 

What do you think?

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I have looked at Scalping in depth. Here and there you find some really good ideas, products and services.

 

What worries me about scalping is of this is NOT automated....unless you are super consistant...one will not be able to have for example a 3:1 win to loss ration all the time.

 

From what I understand you need to have consistant results to call it a system...else it is gambling.

 

What do you think?

 

Scalping can give us huge profit if it is done properly, automatically and using the right system... plus assuming that we are using an honest brokers or pure ECN..

:-bd

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Depends on the scalping method being used. Some scalping methods use large (>200 pip) stop losses. I believe these type of scalping methods are bogus. One loss wipes out weeks of profit. If you have a scalping method with a decent take profit/stop loss (efficiency) ratio, scalping works pretty well.

 

This all depends on your broker too. Bad spreads or execution will kill any scalping strategy.

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thank you indo-investasi... now i become a better trader...

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@jacquesnz

I would say that it is best to know what kind of personality you are before you choose what kind of trading style you want to adopt. I myself believe that every people can do any of trading style but the question is whether they are 'comfort' using it or not.

 

This is very true.. too bad i'm not a scalping type, last time when i was still trying scalping, i got good profit but huge loss.. :(

Now i prefer swing and EA.. :D

 

Anyway, my point is that you better know what kind of trader personality you are. :)

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to scalp you must master tyour system and know when you click that your odds are in your favor

 

this can be accomplished best by trading the M S/R points and price action.Throw on your favorite SMA for trend and it really is not hard........................problem is most people have no patience to wait for the trade, they trade to be trading

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To have good scalp trades you must have a platform which gives you tik data, 1M TF is not a good TF for pro-scalp !

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Hi Jacuesnze, I am not experienced enough to answer your question, but it seems to me that scalping would be good only in the busy hours of trading. It seems like the off market hours is a playground for unscrupulous brokers. Do you ever notice that you find a trade that fit all the criteria of a perfect trade according to you system guidelines, and then as soon as you open the trade, the pip movement stops and all of a sudden the trade goes against you? And when you exit the trade with a loss, once again pip movement stops for a while and the market movement starts to retrace and continue in it's original direction. This seems to happen much, much more during the hours that the markets are slow. When the market is moving in full force, the brokers are too busy with the big money boys to pay you any attention. Please tell this newbie what you think about my theory. I need all the advice that I can get. Thank You in advance.

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My experiences says you can scalp...it just depends on what pair you want to scalp and for how much. I regularly close trades for 10 pips profit, mainly off pivot bounces. To date i have not found a EA that is successful long term.

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I agree with that..scalping is not fuly autmatically..sometime we need to shut down the robot

 

then we drive alone...

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Hi Jacuesnze, I am not experienced enough to answer your question, but it seems to me that scalping would be good only in the busy hours of trading. It seems like the off market hours is a playground for unscrupulous brokers. Do you ever notice that you find a trade that fit all the criteria of a perfect trade according to you system guidelines, and then as soon as you open the trade, the pip movement stops and all of a sudden the trade goes against you? And when you exit the trade with a loss, once again pip movement stops for a while and the market movement starts to retrace and continue in it's original direction. This seems to happen much, much more during the hours that the markets are slow. When the market is moving in full force, the brokers are too busy with the big money boys to pay you any attention. Please tell this newbie what you think about my theory. I need all the advice that I can get. Thank You in advance.

 

I suggest you stop trading and read "Trading In The Zone" then restart fresh.

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Depending on when you scalp, you almost certainly need an EA in order to be able to close the positions quickly.

Something like F A P Turbo, did an amazing job in 2008, I recall some sessions where it would scalp one pair 10-12 times in four hours!!! Sometimes those scalps would open and close within the same minute!

 

Sadly scalpers like F AP no longer have anywhere near the same returns because the Asian Session no longer behaves the same way, and fixed spread low brokers are no longer around in that session.

 

They were great days - I took one account from 10K to 27K in 3months, trading at such LOW risk I look back now and want to cry! If I had known more, I would have made probably 100K lol!

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scalping needs very high level of skill, if you know HOW, you will get what you want! After god will.

 

Best,

 

I think you are absolutely right. It needs very high level of skill.

 

For me, scalping doesn't meet my personality. I prefer to trade based

on swing trading. It means risk a lot more pips than scalping. That is why

risk to reward ratio is very important to me every time I consider placing

trades.

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Very good results in scalping can be received at trade in hands using system 1-2-3 pattern. Perfectly works on ?15. Thus it is necessary to use the candle analysis.

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it's very stressful when doing scalping. I quit after trying it for a few weeks. I am more interested in swing style

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