Micro-Scalping
The claim: That many tiny, fast wins compound into a fortune.
Structurally rigged against you by spread + commission.
How it actually works
Take dozens of trades a day for a few ticks each, aiming for a high hit-rate on small moves.
The problem is arithmetic: the smaller your target, the larger the fraction of it that the spread and commission eat.
We tested it
Across our tests the cost per round-trip dominated the tiny edge every time. The strategy is structurally negative before you even pick a direction.
Every figure comes from this project's own out-of-sample walk-forward testing on real costs — the full research record is in the Lab.
What it teaches you
The smaller your target, the bigger your enemy is friction. Trading cost is not a footnote — for scalpers it's the whole game, and it wins.
A perfect-looking pattern can still have no edge. The test, not the story, decides.
Put it to work — safely
Whatever you trade, the survivable part is the sizing. Use our free position-size & risk calculator to bound every trade before you take it, and read the live volatility state on the board.
Education, not advice. Nothing here is a recommendation to trade, or a claim about which direction a market will go — see Terms.