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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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Oct 24 5 min read

A Rules-Based COT Trading Strategy: Positioning, Price and Risk

A COT report trading strategy fails when positioning is asked to do what it cannot: time entries. This one gives it the job it does well, setting the bias and the conviction, and hands timing to price structure and sizing to a fixed risk rule. The result is five written rules: the positioning condition, the price trigger, the entry, the stop, and the exit, with a worked euro trade and the numbers a backtest of it should report.

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Oct 13 7 min read

How to Choose a Forex Trading Strategy: Trend, Breakout or Reversal?

There is no best forex trading strategy, only the one that fits your hours, your temperament and the market you are in. This guide compares trend following, breakout and reversal trading on the measures that matter — win rate, ratio, time in the screen, drawdown shape — and gives you a decision path for picking one and sticking to it long enough to know.

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