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Scalping is not a trading system. It's simply a timeline. As such, you need to have a trading system in place to dictate your entries. That your scalping simply means your exit strategy is closing the trade once you have a few ticks in your pocket. So really you're asking for a system to...

They say that it roughly takes 10,000 hours at a skill to become an expert in it. If you were doing it as any other 9-5 job year round, that's about five years. The markets are not forgiving as you have already learned. It's very easy to look at the past history of what has happened with...

A candle/bar/line is just a graphical representation of a time period and the action that takes place within whatever limit you have placed. Traders around the world are trading on everything from 1 second to weekly time charts and everything in between. So while your chosen time frame may be...

Good afternoon all, I am TGS1. It's the TLA (three letter acronym) for The Gunslinger, which was already taken (as was just TGS). Derived from the main character in one of my favorite novel series, Roland. I've been on and off learning to trade for nearly five years. E-mini futures and...