Scalping is a trading strategy that attempts to profit from very small price changes. Traders who implement this strategy will place anywhere from 10 to a few hundred trades in a single day in the belief that small moves in stock price are easier to catch than large ones. Scalping requires a strict exit strategy as one large loss could eliminate the many small gains the trader worked to obtain.
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