Scapling - Long Term Vs Short Term Trade

Does Scapling works?

How many of you trade on the basis of long term? And how do you define Long term trading? Daily-Hourly?

And vs Short Term Trading? (Minutes-Sec)

I have been trading for 1 year and my long term trades has been less profitable than short term trading (i.e Scapling). This is weird as I believe the common consensus is long term trading weights beyond short term.

Does it has to do with wrong risk management? Or the lack of technical knowledge/skills?

I am not scalping .
But i can try to answer so of your questions :
From what i read in FF it seems that scalping is more often use for or trades that last a few bar vs trend following (unlimited number of bar ). than for short term trades .
For you questions about short term vs long term ,it couldn't have any generale statement because ,it depend of your strategy edge vs the spread cost on your reward .

Depends on what you call scalping, but scalping definitely works. It's the only way I'll ever trade. Not many on FF are scalping, and the ones I see are going about it all wrong. Indicators on these timeframes are worthless in spot fx.

Why I think it's the hardest way to trade is because some people can't control themselves in this level of trading. It is difficult. I see a lot of so claimed successful traders on here saying it will never work in the long run, and they go as far as to say it's stupid, when honestly, they have no idea what they are talking about quite frankly.

I scalp on tick charts. I personally favor tick charts over time based charts. But whatever you are used to using. Most important thing for any timeframe is to stick to one setup and learn it, don't keep changing it or changing your rules, because you will spin your wheels... if you're lucky. Wipe the indicators off your charts, THAT is stupid. people scalping based on rsi or cci signals, especially going counter trend, will fail. Another thing I see people doing is having a set pip target or % to reach a day, that's very bad in my opinion. My goal is to take what the market gives. No set pip or % a day. my stop is always 3-5ticks MAX... everytime. I keep my leverage at 20:1, I sit and wait for my setups with perfect price action and momentum that I need to see.

Greed is bad for any type of trading, but especially scalping. Keeping your stops and exits extremely tight and using the proper platforms with fast execution and brokers with very tight spreads and commissions is also key.

EU or GU are the only pairs I would ever scalp. Possibly UJ, though it is often too slow.

Another major important thing is waiting for the right conditions to scalp.

Which is more profitable comes down to the trader.

To completely generalise, fast timeframe trading will be characterised by many trades with smaller edges and requiring lesser trade size. Slow timeframe trading will be characterised by fewer trades but with far greater edges that can be traded far more aggressively. Neither is by no means necessarily more profitable. It really comes down to which we prefer, and which we do better. One good 4h trade ridden hard, or a few dozen scalps.

Indeed, whatever fits your personality.

Monroe is right.
Scalping requires tick or seconds charts which are difficult to have in MT4 (not impossible). Plus the built-in lag and the x pips away from the price to set limits makes scalping on MT4 very difficult. But on a real futures exchange broker, with instant execution and ability to set stops and limits right on price, it can be done.
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Talking of indicators, there are tons out there which is energy sapping! Which are useful?

It seems that quite a few of them are slow in detecting trends, one example is Stochastic, by the time the trend is form, the entry price has already been long gone. MACD is much slower than Stochastic, it only shows the trend when you are in t+1 (next time period)!

Any ideas which indicators complement the other? Some are contradicting and cant be use altogether!

As I said, none are good, they are all lagging, by the time it shows the signal you're too late. (especially short term or scalping). My advice is get them off your charts for all they will do is confuse you and it's too much to look at. Keep it simple.

The only indicator worth looking at is price and s/r indicators like pivots, trendlines if you wish.

MA's will help you with seeing trend direction, but thats about it for them, don't use them for s/r... they may work that way, but it's only a matter of time before you get burnt on them.

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