jacquesnz Posted July 19, 2009 Report Posted July 19, 2009 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? Quote
greatday Posted July 19, 2009 Report Posted July 19, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... i think scalping is not waste of time, we are rish Quote
Chaki123 Posted July 19, 2009 Report Posted July 19, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... 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 Quote
outcast Posted July 19, 2009 Report Posted July 19, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... Chaki123 Can you suggest the right system for scalping please? Quote
sirxl Posted July 19, 2009 Report Posted July 19, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... THV V3system works with the 1M TF and 5M TF...Try it Quote
jondoe Posted July 20, 2009 Report Posted July 20, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... 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. Quote
dr0o69 Posted July 20, 2009 Report Posted July 20, 2009 (edited) Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... thank you indo-investasi... now i become a better trader... Edited August 7, 2010 by dr0o69 Quote To know and not to do is not yet to know - Zen
armandog Posted July 20, 2009 Report Posted July 20, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... There is also FAP Turbo an scalping EA, haven't tried it but some people are getting good results. Quote
DavidRaul Posted July 20, 2009 Report Posted July 20, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... scalping needs very high level of skill, if you know HOW, you will get what you want! After god will. Best, Quote
Burro Posted July 21, 2009 Report Posted July 21, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... Scalping seemed easy until I tried it :| Quote
aweha Posted July 21, 2009 Report Posted July 21, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... @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. :) Quote
Phoenix1713006089 Posted July 21, 2009 Report Posted July 21, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... 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 Quote
xbx Posted July 21, 2009 Report Posted July 21, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... 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 ! Quote
newbie111 Posted July 21, 2009 Report Posted July 21, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... 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. Quote
olayiwola02 Posted July 21, 2009 Report Posted July 21, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... Scalping seemed easy until I tried it :|To me scalping is one trading style,if you can do it profitably ,go ahead.it works Quote
50pips Posted July 21, 2009 Report Posted July 21, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... 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. Quote
gun_gun Posted July 22, 2009 Report Posted July 22, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... I agree with that..scalping is not fuly autmatically..sometime we need to shut down the robot then we drive alone... Quote
forexample Posted July 22, 2009 Report Posted July 22, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... 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. Quote
cr_redfox Posted July 22, 2009 Report Posted July 22, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... 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! Quote
qetug Posted July 22, 2009 Report Posted July 22, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... I'm not success in scalping...maybe someday @-) Quote
qetug Posted July 22, 2009 Report Posted July 22, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... Or...i use a wrong system? Quote
Fajarini Posted July 22, 2009 Report Posted July 22, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... 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. Quote
Igo-go Posted July 22, 2009 Report Posted July 22, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... 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. Quote
sbscfx Posted July 22, 2009 Report Posted July 22, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... it's very stressful when doing scalping. I quit after trying it for a few weeks. I am more interested in swing style Quote
fxgain Posted July 22, 2009 Report Posted July 22, 2009 Re: Scalping...is this a waste of time or can you.... scalping need smart way and dicipline..but sometimes we r all not dicipline anyway.. @-) Quote
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