Why scalping is mostly preferred?

What timeframe are you talking about for your analysis? No doubt there was a surge in shorter-term-trading when the internet started being used in trading, then again when cell phones started. But you know why the longer-term-holding might be declining? If anything, it's because more retail is getting into trading, and well, the less experienced traders wont hold for as long (fear). Commissions cant really get any lower so that, if anything, would lead to less short-term-holding.

If you're going to hold overnight, stop trading shitty low value stocks (which you seem to be married to)

 

Recently I guess I did some scalping in demo, based on the 1 min in forex. Easy to make money (about 200 pips a day). But with (low) commissions the result was negative. So now I watch the 10 min too to find better entries. I can tell you , there are not as many. I only kept the low spread forex pairs. Anyone who is into learning forex, watch 1 min. There you see endless resistance to which market behaves. Incredible.

 

If you trade stocks, no commissions could it be a different story?

 

Pros and cons. Certain moves of certain stocks at certain times are interesting. Otherwise to risky, but what do I know. Maybe less risky after study.

 

i see non shitty 10-15-20 dollar stocks every day crashing harder and faster than those stocks you call shit stocks.
you somehow assume that people who trade penny stocks are not aware that they are shit stocks. and that everyone belives that these companies are great companies lol

im watching warrior trading recaps every day him trading stocks in his preferred range and they literally do exactly same shit as penny stocks.



the availability of lower timeframes in free platforms increased the low timeframe trading its just that. i donno what is there to argue

 

Scalpers do not depend much on whether there is a trend, rollback or flat (range) on higher timeframes. Unlike traders working on trend strategies, scalpers can earn even in conditions of consolidation, rollbacks or small price fluctuations if they trade with a broker that provides minimal spreads and instant execution of orders, such as in fxopen.