You can do anything you want, after all you are the one and only SML, a mighty reference for traders.
Everyone that is a regular scalper considers scalping a move that lasts seconds. That is why it is difficult.
Been several years since I last scalped futures, and I haven't bothered to make a post on trading in years but.. Can't sleep yet. I found scalping futures indices a bit like learning to play guitar. It required real neuroplastic changes. What once seemed impossibly fast eventually became comfortable. But if you don’t keep it up, you lose it. And unfortunately, it’s a tactile skill. Raw intelligence won’t shortcut it much as you think, gifted only helps. Gamers will relate. I only traded with limit orders, no market entries, and I that was part of my edge. Over time, I got better at positioning just ahead of so called liquidity vacuums/magnets, usually using a very naked chart, drawing a few lines on higher level charts. I’d aim to get filled a tick or few before the "crowd" hit with market orders, and those passive fills (you provide liquidity "make" that someone else takes) told me the crowd was about to commit. It demanded patience, but it refined my timing and helped me avoid chasing price. My focus was on market microstructure, not so much iceberg orders or huge walls, but the immediate supply and demand tension at the top of the book. You start to feel those vibrations and wiggles in price, anything that feels more signal than noise. Limit-only trading gave me more than tighter entries. It gave me something like tactile feedback. Too much happens behind L2. Dark pools, internalizers, and hidden orders throw price around in ways the book can't show. I stopped trying to read it like a clean signal. But you know, maybe if I had an identical twin I could get him to trade like I did. Swing trading is a fairly transferable skill, scalping is self-tailored. Trying to teach friends to scalp never made them scalpers, it just made how I traded clear to me.
You can teach it if you are able to describe very clear steps. What would you say is the TODO list for a scalper? Do you think that it can be automated? If so what rules would you apply to that algorithm?