a lot of you guys keep asking me what is
the best time frame to scalp on now the
definition of scalping is a short
position in and out in a short period of
time so obviously lower time frames are
going to be better in this video i'm
going to show you which ones i like and
why
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welcome back to the channel everybody my
name is artie and this is the moving
average a show where we discuss
everything day trading to keep you
profitable now if you guys remember my
last video where i talked about the
three line strike on a five minute time
frame you could see how many subsequent
winning trades we had in this one solid
trend we got eight amazing trades which
would have gotten you 16 profit in 14
hours now if you did not trade this
tokyo session which i recommend you
don't because it's super low volume and
the trades take forever but if you're an
early bird like i am you can see that
pretty much each one of these trades the
first one took two hours the second one
took an hour and a half third one got
stopped out in 20 minutes two hours on
this trade and
50 minutes on the next one in and out of
the market quickly one to two hours if
you want to get hyper aggressive with it
you can drop down to the one minute time
frame but on this time frame your stop
losses are gonna be approximately six
pips i don't want you going lower than
six pips if you want to drop down to the
lower time frame it is substantially
more risky i don't want you to have
these ridiculous stop losses like two
and three pips
minimum i want you to have four pips and
that's including your spread with a one
to two risk to reward you're looking at
eight pips this trade played out in 13
minutes you will inherently have more
losses with this strategy because if you
look on a one minute time frame you are
not getting a good idea of what the
actual market structure is you are
simply scalping extremely short-term
price action moves your win rate on this
is substantially lower than it is on a
five-minute time frame if you decide to
go with the one minute you need to back
test the exact time frame that you're
trading every single day for at least
100 days not 100 trades 100 days trading
between that time frame so you could
have 11 trades per day for a hundred
days i want you to figure out what time
works best for you because this one
again is massively massively risky and
if you are a beginner do not freaking do
it a three minute time frame is going to
give you a little bit more leeway and
wiggle room when it comes to being able
to spot the trend but still you want to
keep a tight stop loss on this and again
the win rate will be lower for those of
you asking if you can scalp on a 15
minute time frame on 4x pairs i would
not recommend it because 15 minute
candles are so much bigger than one
minute and five minute candles you want
to increase your stop losses from the 10
pips that you would have on a five
minute chart
two above the swing high that it had so
price dipped down swung up and down you
want your stop loss at a comfortable
distance above that for this it's 13
pips for this next move it is 15 pips to
get a one to two risk to reward ratio
you're looking at 30 pips on this move
and 28 pips on this move this was an
hour and 15 minute trade and this was a
three and a half hour trade
these trades take substantially more
time than on a five minute time frame
and at that point when you're having
three to four six hour trades it's not
scalping anymore if you want to scalp on
a 15 minute chart and you have the
capital to do so i would suggest indices
but that is a whole nother topic it's
not pips it's points you have to have
far greater capital for it and if you're
a beginner trader i would not touch
indices or gold with a 10 foot pole i
really hope that i was able to shed some
light on these scalping time frames and
which ones i prefer if you didn't notice
five minute scalping is my favorite so
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