What is scalping?
The scalping can be defined as a very effective (but also risky) trading technique which has become one of the most popular strategies in recent years. It is also known as “Quick Trading” and is one of the most effective trading strategies used in highly liquid financial markets such as Forex. Scalping is a series of short term operations (buy and sell fast trades) over the trading session, which can reach even the hundreds of daily trades with ease. In this case, it involves transactions that may take 1-2 minutes on average and sometimes even a few seconds.
The scalping is classified as an intraday trading technique, ie transactions whose duration is less than a day and can last from several seconds to several hours. Through the scalping, a human trader can make up to 20 or more buy or sell buy and sell trades in an hour to profit from micro-movements of the market. Automated trading systems based on computers are capable of a much larger number of scalping operations per day.