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Forex Scalping – A Very Popular Way To Trade Forex

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Forex Scalping is one of the most popular ways of trading in the forex market, along with Swing Trading and Day trading. There are millions of traders who do only scalping. That is because…

1. A scalping trade normally lasts for only few minutes. So, you can open a trade, make quick little profit, and then close the trade immediately.

2. You have the potential of placing multiple trades a day. The profit target in scalping can be achieved very quickly, so you have the opportunity to place multiple trades each day, which makes scalping even more attractive. Also, you can use the scalping techniques on multiple currency pairs.

There are some specialized scalping systems and software programs available, like Delphi Scalper and Forex Scalping Blueprint which make it even easier to make money. Still, you have to keep in mind that scalping can be risky also. Here it is why…

Scalping is about making a small profit on each trade but, as per good trading principles, it requires some realistic stop loss value to protect against the scenario of a trade going in the opposite direction. So, the risk to reward ratio is not good.

Infact, there are certain trading systems that require a 50 pip stop loss for 10 pip profit. So, imagine you have 4 profitable trades and 1 trade with a loss, which is an 80% success rate, still you would end up losing 10 pips after 5 such trades. Such systems should always be avoided.

At the same time, you also need to consider your own trading psychology. Are you mentally ready for scalping? Do you like to place trades immediately or are you the kind of person who likes to take time to understand the market and also requires some time to make a trade? How fast is your broker in accepting trades? This is important since if the broker takes even 10-15 second to place a trade, the scalping opportunity in some cases may be gone.

This brings up the next point – that any scalping system or software should be highly accurate and should not have any ambiguity in telling you about when to open a trade and when to close a trade, since you do not have chance to second guess in scalping. If you are late, even by a minute, then the entire scalping opportunity may simply go away and the trade cannot be placed.

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