Scalping

Why it matters

Scalping only works when average win comfortably exceeds spread plus commission, which is why cost tracking is non-negotiable.

Example

40 trades a day for an average of 3 ticks each. At $2.50 round-turn commissions, roughly a third of gross profit goes to costs, so cost control is the strategy.

How to track it in a journal

TradeStack calculates the core performance numbers — win rate, average win and loss, profit factor, expectancy, drawdown and consistency — automatically from imported trades, so scalping stops being something you estimate and becomes something you read.

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Questions that use this term

• How do you journal scalping trades without spending hours?

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