Scalping Forex usually involves opening and closing a position in seconds or minutes for a few pips of profit. Even though scalping involves the use of leverage and higher leverage means higher risk, the short period of time a forex scalper is in a trade decreases the exposure risk that’s inherent in trading or investing due to the holding of a position. If done correctly, scalping provides this additional degree of “risk control” that is not even present in regular day trading.

Scalping the Forex will normally allow the trader the use the tick and minute charts as these will give the most up to date prices to trade from.