There are different ways to trade in the Forex market. One of them is a scalping method. This method is easy to understand, that’s why the Forex beginners often pay attention to it.

What is scalping?

Scalping (also known as pipsing) is a specific style of Forex trading. The main idea of scalping is getting profit from speculations through closing the positions after changes in price of a trading asset by only several pips/points.

Long before the advent of the Internet time of order execution was measured in minutes. Now, when most routine tasks can be automated, pips/points can be measured in seconds or even a part of a second.

What it takes to do scalping?

Inasmuch as a scalper trader benefits from a little change in a price of the trading asset, the trader has to take into account the certain factors.

Commission amount

Commission is charged for each trade made in Forex. Amount of the commission may be very large. In case a trader pays the large commission to the broker, benefit from trading scalping may disappear.

But if the commission charges are big, it’s possible to receive profit from such trading method anyway. To get profit from scalping, a trader has to trade a large amount of the selling asset.

Differences between scalping and the other trading styles

The trader engaged in scalping does not have to understand the geopolitics and climatic conditions in a certain area, and also to study the informational reasons. Pipsing is a reference speculation.

Unlike any other trading styles, the forecasting and the development of a trading strategy are not typical for scalping. The trader, using this technique, is entirely in the current moment. He / she does not even think about what will happen in 5 minutes. All the trader needs is to catch the moment when a position needs to be entered, and then quickly catch a second when it can be closed with a profit.

Advantages of scalping in technical indicators using

Using the indicators allows a trader to open more profitable market positions. In such case the trading:

Types of scalping indicators

To the scalping technical indicators the high demands are made, not only for its accuracy, but also for the speed with which it is possible to react to them. Therefore, most of them are represented by arrows or signals — the simplest forms of notification for perception and processing.

Automatic trading

Without using of the trading expert advisors, scalping is ineffective. The speed of updating asset prices in Forex is calculated in seconds. Therefore, it is not possible to manually track changes (especially when there are many positions).

Who uses scalping?

The market professionals do not use this style of the trading. But among the Forex beginners, it is very common one. Scalping is interesting because with its help it is easy to start getting profit from trading in the absence of the serious economic knowledges. And what's important the most, over time it allows a trader to explore the principles of changing the price of different trading assets.

Almost all scalping indicators are easy to handle. Therefore, their use is the ideal solution for the Forex beginners.