Forex Basics
Oct 26, 2026 6 min read
Scalping Trading Strategy: Rules, Sessions, Costs and Why Most Scalpers Lose to the Spread
A scalping trading strategy lives or dies on arithmetic most scalpers never do: with a 6-pip target and a 1-pip spread, a sixth of every winner is gone before the trade starts. This guide sets out the conditions under which scalping can work, the session windows and pairs where the costs are lowest, a complete rule set built around the London and New York opens, and the numbers a scalper has to hit to break even, let alone profit.
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