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title: '8 Trading Tips to Become a Scalping Expert'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=miUjlA-ACp4'
video_id: 'miUjlA-ACp4'
date: 2026-07-18
duration_sec: 869
channel: 'Alex Ruiz'
---

# 8 Trading Tips to Become a Scalping Expert

> Source: [8 Trading Tips to Become a Scalping Expert](https://youtube.com/watch?v=miUjlA-ACp4)

## Summary

This video provides eight essential tips for profitable scalping trading, emphasizing the need for discipline, risk management, and a solid strategy. Scalping requires quick decisions, focus, and emotional control, and these tips help traders avoid common pitfalls.

### Key Points

- **Limit Indicators** [01:28] — Using too many indicators clutters the chart and delays decision-making. Stick to one or two to automate analysis without emotional involvement.
- **Don't Get Attached to Positions** [03:08] — Even a 'perfect' trade can lose. Follow your strategy's rules without judging aesthetics, and avoid bad practices like removing stop losses.
- **Risk Management is Key** [04:38] — Two traders with the same plan get different results due to risk management. It maximizes profits in good conditions and minimizes losses in bad ones.
- **Have a Solid Strategy** [06:10] — A clear strategy with no room for doubt is crucial for scalping's fast decisions. Beginners should master day or swing trading first.
- **Avoid Overtrading** [07:46] — Trading less frequently leads to consistent profitability. Overtrading causes losses and psychological issues; use risk management to combat it.
- **Adapt Scalping to Your Life** [10:00] — Choose a trading style that fits your routine, personality, and goals. Scalping requires concentration and time; not everyone is suited for it.
- **Watch the News** [11:11] — News can reverse positions quickly. Trade multiple uncorrelated assets to hedge against news events, and avoid trading right before news without a strategy.
- **Control Simultaneous Trades** [12:49] — Limit the number of concurrent positions to avoid overexposure. The speaker recommends no more than three, and they should be uncorrelated.

### Conclusion

Scalping is a high-intensity trading style that demands discipline, risk management, and a solid strategy. By following these eight tips, traders can improve their profitability and avoid common psychological and technical mistakes.

## Transcript

trading, and regardless of the difficulty inherent in each one, one stands out above the rest: scalping. In decisions in a matter of seconds, you have to be focused for at
least two hours a day, every day of the week, you have to monitor news, results, statements, and presentations, you can't get too excited when you win, nor too discouraged when you lose. In short, you'll be living
trading on the edge. However, just as it's one of the also one of the most profitable, provided you have solid rules—something many traders lack.
Beyond knowing which trading strategy to use, when to enter, when to exit, and how to manage your position, there are fundamental principles that go much further and that anyone who
wants to be profitable scalping must consider. So, in tips for being profitable scalping that you can start applying today, regardless of your
trading strategy or  Regardless of your experience
number of indicators. Indicators are analytical tools that, regardless of offering delayed signals about what is happening or what will happen, allow for much more automated decision-making with a
much lower degree of emotional involvement. Obviously, it's one thing to have one or two indicators to help you analyze, to help you make decisions about where you're going to enter or how you're going to enter, where you're going to exit or how you're going to exit, and
how you're going to manage the position. It's another thing entirely if your chart looks like this. You, who don't use indicators or use very few, might find the image you saw ridiculous, but from my experience
mentoring and working with traders, I can assure you that there are thousands upon thousands of traders daily who try to make decisions based on this type of chart, or even worse—more indicators, more elements to
make an entry or exit decision, you'll want to verify that all those indicators give you the green light for what you want to do. indicators will make the chart look like this.  This clutter will make it
very difficult to identify that green light and will waste your time. Remember that in scalping, you have to make decisions in a matter of seconds, whether it's seeing counter-trend moves or confirmations of the structure you
want to see. So, an excess of indicators is completely counterproductive. Tip number two: don't get attached to any one position. This point, and many people still do: they see a position that is
perfect in terms of the fundamentals of what their strategy defines as perfection, and they think that just because it's technically perfect, it has to end up being a take-profit. The reality is that it doesn't. You only have a
long-term winning mathematical advantage based on rules that define a trading strategy, and your only mission is to repeat those executions consistently—daily, weekly, or monthly, it doesn't matter.
In the case of scalping, it's daily. The fact that you see a position that aesthetically resembles those utopian rules dictated by your strategy doesn't mean it has a higher probability of success, not at
all; it simply means it's better.  The more it resembles, the more perfect it is, the less it resembles, it doesn't matter, just make sure the rules are met and if those rules are met, execute it. Don't judge the outcome
of a strategy simply because it's more aesthetically appealing. Marrying a trade because it's perfect only leads to bad practices: overtrading, which we'll talk about later; revenge trading; removing stop losses; lengthening
take profits; all are bad practices that lead to failure, and they lead to failure because you don't accept the reality that a trade that seemed aesthetically better to us than others can end in a loss. Tip number three: don't neglect risk
management. Two people with the same trading plan will never get the same results, and the reason for this is how each of those two people approaches risk management. You win more
when you're winning, you lose less when you're losing, and you're able to control and enhance aspects that go far beyond the mere fact of knowing how to execute a position. You have to see your strategy as a
trend. There are times when that trend is bullish and your strategy generates good results because the market conditions are optimal for it. You can execute that strategy, but there are times when that trend is bearish
and your strategy generates poor results because market conditions aren't This is precisely where risk management comes in—one of the most important elements of your
trading plan. It allows you to maximize profits during optimal market conditions and minimize losses during unfavorable market conditions. Below, in the first pinned comment and in the description of this
video, I'll leave a link to a video dedicated to risk management. In it, I not only explain how I approach it and how I recommend others do, but I also share my own spreadsheet, which I
currently use to calculate the size of my positions. Secret number four: Have a solid trading strategy. A strategy that provides clear entry and exit points that leave no room for doubt. Trading
isn't mathematics, and there are no formulas that allow us to always apply the same concepts objectively. However, what we cannot do is hesitate when executing a position, when
exiting a position, or when managing risk in day trading.  Hesitating for 5 or 10 minutes will, in most cases, mean you might enter a trade a little later, but nothing serious will happen. However, in scalping, you have to make those
decisions in a matter of seconds. If you take 5 or 10 minutes, you'll literally miss out on the position. Remember that scalping isn't a trading strategy for beginners; it's for advanced traders with
significant experience who have already acquired the necessary trading skills or have already maximized and mastered that strategy on other, higher timeframes. So, wanting to start scalping and
starting with doubts—the doubts that any beginner trader has—will simply lead you to failure. I recommend that before starting with scalping, you take advantage of and use other timeframes, such as day
trading or swing trading, to trade and master that strategy. Since the market is fractal, you'll only have to change the timeframes, and once you're executing and trading your strategy profitably in day trading or
swing trading without any doubts, consider the option of moving on to scalping. Tip number five: avoid overtrading.  Thinking about trading less frequently always leads to a more consistently profitable and
successful outcome than thinking about trading more frequently. Scalping is very tempting because it allows you to participate in trades constantly, but just as it's very tempting, you can quickly
find yourself trapped in a spiral of continuous trades and losses from which you don't know how to escape. This will ultimately cause you to lose all your capital. To combat this, consider tip number three, where I
literally share my own risk management template. Also, consider tip number eight, which we haven't reached yet since we're crucial for combating
overtrading. Furthermore, overtrading has two additional problems characteristic of this type of activity. The first is that it's the typical bad practice that leads to other bad practices: removing
stop losses, moving take profits, changing the rules of your trading plan, and even trading out of revenge to recover losses. The second problem is that it's not a technical error or a lack of knowledge; that's
trading journal won't help you solve that overtrading problem. You already know what you 're doing, so it's not a knowledge problem; it's a psychological one. It won't be fixed by reviewing and analyzing your losing trades. I
by reviewing and analyzing your losing trades. I go back to point number three and point number eight in a few minutes to start solving that overtrading problem.
Before moving on to the next tip, if you're enjoying this video, please like it, subscribe if you 're not already, and leave a comment saying what you think of the video, what kind of content you'd like to see
in the coming weeks, and even if there are any of these eight tips you would remove or add, as I'm sure you can remember that below, in the first pinned comment and in the description of
various links of interest, such as courses, tutorials, training, and profitable trading strategies—all 100% free content so you can continue learning as a trader without investing your own money. Tip number six:
don't...  Adapting to scalping is one of the main problems that 99% of beginner traders have: first they look for the method, and then they look for how to adapt to it. The first thing you have to do is determine
your routine, your life context, your personality, and your goals. Once you have a clear mental map of all this, you have to go for the method. If you work from morning till night, you can't scalp. If all you want is to
generate extra income, you don't need to scalp. If what you're looking for is a calm trading method, you shouldn't scalp. If you're not able to concentrate for two hours without looking at your phone, you can't scalp. And I
assure you I could go on with 100 more examples. What I'm getting at is that not all trading styles and all assets are suitable for everyone. And I 'm not talking about whether you're better or worse, so you can trade this or that. I'm
not going there. I'm simply saying that everyone has to adjust their trading style and the asset they're going to trade based on their routine, their life context, their personality, and their goals. Tip number seven: watch
the news, because the news is one of the worst enemies of scalping.  Trader, but especially scalper. I'm 100% sure it hasn't happened to you once, twice, or even three times: you execute a position and
suddenly it completely reverses, hitting your take profit in a few seconds or causing you to lose money in the same amount of time. So, whether you like it or not, you have to keep an eye on the news. It's true that not all news will
have a direct impact on the market, but literally every day there are elements you have to consider to protect yourself. I recommend that you trade more than one different asset. The most typical thing in scalping is to trade
the euro/dollar exclusively, but of course, you're trading two of the most important currencies in the world, if not the two most important: the euro and the US dollar. If you use other types of assets, for example, indices
or other currencies that aren't fully correlated with the euro/ dollar, when there's news about the euro or the dollar that could affect one of the two or the pair as a whole, what you can do is
protect yourself by trading those other currencies that aren't so correlated. Pay close attention because...  The adrenaline rush of executing trades right before news breaks, without any tested and proven trading strategy, is gambling. It's
and a quick take profit, and remember, gambling is synonymous with losing your money. Tip number eight: You have to control the number of simultaneous trades. This tip is closely
related to the CCO point we've been discussing, and there's nothing wrong with executing several trades simultaneously. In fact, it can significantly boost profits. But of course, everything that
boosts profits can also boost losses. example, I don't enter more than three positions at a time, as nothing necessarily has to happen, positions at a time, as nothing necessarily has to happen, and 99% of the time nothing does.
But all it takes is for us to be overexposed to the market on a day when something totally unexpected happens, and the market completely reverses, causing us to lose a large amount of capital. Remember that
our duty as traders is to preserve our capital. So, it's fine to trade several assets at once, but if you're going to do that, first set a limit.  Limited and second, look for assets
correlated. Remember that below, in the first pinned comment and in the description of this video, you will not only find the video I recommended you watch in tip number three, but you will also
find other links of interest, as I mentioned: courses, tutorials, all 100% trader without needing to invest your money. I'm going to leave this video
helpful, which is the important thing. If so, like, subscribe, share it with friends and family, and I'll see you in the next video.
[Music] Goodbye