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Top 5 Best Forex Scalping Strategies That Work

Scalping is a double-edged sword. In the wrong hands, it may cause utter destruction to a trader’s account. However, in the right hands, scalping could dramatically increase a trading account’s equity within a day. This is because of the fast-paced nature of scalping. It allows for multiple trades within the day, which if traded well enough could result in multiple winning trades. Stack these winning trades in a week and you are well on your way to a fortune.

There are scalpers who can produce huge gains within a few months, multiplying their trading accounts by several folds. This is what many traders dream of. Although this feat could be very difficult, it is not impossible.

Below are several scalping strategies that would work well when used in the right market condition. Learn to identify the right conditions for each and you could be profiting much from the market on a weekly basis.

 

Free Scalp Forex Trading Strategy

You may have heard that the forex market, or any type of market that could be traded, has fractal characteristics. This means that the patterns that traders see in higher timeframes are the same patterns that they would see when they zoom in to the lower timeframes. This has some truth to it, but not entirely. There are factors that cause some characteristics and patterns that work on a higher timeframe to be irrelevant on a lower timeframe. Factors such as timing of trading sessions, choppy markets, news releases, wide gaps between bid and ask price, and more. These factors often disrupt the lower timeframes to a greater degree compared to the higher timeframes.

However, there are also overarching concepts that apply to both higher and lower timeframes. Factors such as trading patterns, trends, momentum, mean reversals, etc. These concepts apply to scalping as much as it does with swing trading. Traders who would want to dabble in scalping should have some of these factors in place.

The best way to assess if a trading strategy is applicable on a certain timeframe is to test it. There strategies that work perfectly fine on the 1-minute chart but is useless on the 5-minute chart. There are strategies that work well on timeframes above 1-hour but would cause significant losses when used on the lower timeframes.

Free Scalp Forex Trading Strategy works particularly well on the lower timeframes. It detects scalping trade signals based on trends and momentum using a confluence of highly reliable scalping indicators.

50 SMA and 200 EMA

As discussed earlier, trends are a critical factor in trading. This holds true whether scalping, day trading, swing trading or even position trading.

Moving averages are the one of the main indicators that traders use to identify trend direction and bias. Traders would often associate price being above a moving average or a moving average that is sloping up with a bullish trend. On the other hand, traders would also consider price below a moving average or a moving average that is sloping down as a down trend.

Another method that traders use is by looking at how two or more moving averages are stacked. Charts with shorter-period moving averages above longer-period moving averages are considered to be bullish, while charts with shorter period moving averages below a longer-period moving average are considered bearish.

There are certain moving averages that many traders use. One of these is the 50-period Simple Moving Average (SMA). This moving average is often used to identify the general mid-term trend direction. Another moving average which many traders use is the 200-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA). This moving average on the other hand is used to identify the long-term trend.

Free Scalping System

Free Scalping System is a custom indicator used to identify trend direction, specifically designed to identify trends on the lower timeframes.

This indicator indicates trend direction as an oscillating indicator. It displays histograms which could oscillate from positive to negative and vice versa. Positive bars are colored lime and indicates a bullish trend, while negative bars are colored red and indicates a bearish trend.

ASC Trend

The ASC Trend indicator is a custom indicator which indicates specific entry points based on trend and momentum reversals.

This indicator conveniently indicates entry points by displaying arrows on candles where it detects a momentum reversal. Arrows pointing up indicate a bullish entry signal while arrows pointing down indicate a bearish entry signal.

Trading Strategy

This strategy provides high probability trade signals based on the confluence of the long-term trend, the mid-term trend and momentum-based trend reversals specifically designed for the lower timeframes.

To trade this strategy, we will be looking for confluences between the 200 EMA, 50 SMA, the Free Scalping System indicator and the ASC Trend indicator.

The moving averages should be stacked correctly in the direction of the trend. Price should also close on the correct side of the moving average based on the trend direction. This indicates that both the long-term and mid-term trend direction are in confluence.

The Free Scalping System indicator should also agree with the trend direction of the moving averages. However, trades will be considered only when the free scalping system has just crossed the midline. This indicates that the long-term trend is still in place and that the temporary reversal on the Free Scalping System indicator was just due to a temporary retrace.

Finally, the ASC Trend signal should also agree with the trade direction of the indicators above. This indicates that the momentum has just shifted back to the direction of the main trend.

The crossing of price over the 50 SMA, the crossing of the histogram bars on the Free Scalping System from positive to negative or vice versa, and the occurrence of an entry signal on the ASC Trend should be closely aligned. This ensures a fresh resumption of the trend which still has much potential to produce huge gains relative to the risk of price reversals.

Indicators:

  • 50 SMA
  • 200 EMA
  • ex4
    • RISK: 12
  • ex4
    • periods: 800000000

Timeframes: 1-minute and 5-minute chart only

Currency Pairs: EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY, EURJPY and GBPJPY only

Trading Session: Tokyo open (first 2 hours only trading JPY pairs), London session (trading GBP and EUR pairs), and New York session (trading USD pairs)

Buy Trade Setup

Entry

  • The 50 SMA should be above the 200 EMA indicating a bullish long-term trend.
  • Price should cross and close above the 50 SMA.
  • The Free Scalping System histogram bars should shift from negative to positive and should change to lime indicating a bullish trend reversal.
  • The ASC Trend indicator should display an arrow pointing up indicating a bullish entry signal.
  • The bullish signals above should be closely aligned.
  • Enter a buy order on the confirmation of the conditions above.

Stop Loss

  • Set the stop loss on the fractal below the entry candle.

Exit

  • Close the trade as soon as the ASC Trend indicator prints an arrow pointing down.
  • Close the trade as soon as the Free Scalping System histogram shifts from positive to negative and changes to red.

Free Scalp Forex Trading Strategy 1

Free Scalp Forex Trading Strategy 2

Sell Trade Setup

Entry

  • The 50 SMA should be below the 200 EMA indicating a bearish long-term trend.
  • Price should cross and close below the 50 SMA.
  • The Free Scalping System histogram bars should shift from positive to negative and should change to red indicating a bearish trend reversal.
  • The ASC Trend indicator should display an arrow pointing down indicating a bearish entry signal.
  • The bearish signals above should be closely aligned.
  • Enter a sell order on the confirmation of the conditions above.

Stop Loss

  • Set the stop loss on the fractal above the entry candle.

Exit

  • Close the trade as soon as the ASC Trend indicator prints an arrow pointing up.
  • Close the trade as soon as the Free Scalping System histogram shifts from negative to positive and changes to lime.

Free Scalp Forex Trading Strategy 3

Free Scalp Forex Trading Strategy 4

Conclusion

This strategy is a high probability trading strategy that allows traders to profit on trend resumptions on the lower timeframes. This strategy works best on the 1-minute and 5-minute chart as a scalping strategy. However, it could still work on the 15-minute chart as a day trading strategy still with good results.

To trade this strategy, it is best to align the lower timeframes with the higher timeframes to ensure a high probability trade setup. This may lessen the number of trading opportunities but may also improve win ratios.

 

DeMarker Smooth Forex Scalping Strategy

Many traders feel that scalping is very difficult and is reserved only for the “elite traders”. Although there is some truth to scalping being difficult, it is definitely not reserved just for the “elite traders”.

What makes scalping difficult is that it requires quick thinking and allows for lesser errors. This is because price movements on the lower timeframes are felt drastically compared to the higher timeframes. A 5-pip movement on the higher timeframes seem like nothing at all. However, the same 5-pip movement on the lower timeframe may mean a profit or a loss. For this reason, traders could not be late on a trade even by just less than a minute. Traders should be able to decide whether to take the trade as the candle closes or as the rules align.

This is where rules-based trading comes into play. Second guessing is lessened by deciding on what factors would allow you to take a trade or not, and it allows traders to make decisions much quicker.

The DeMarker Smooth Forex Scalping Strategy is a rules-based strategy that provides specific entry signals that have a relatively high win rate and a fixed reward-risk ratio. This strategy uses a confluence of indicators that are well suited to identify trend direction even on the lower timeframes.

200-Period Exponential Moving Average

Scalpers often align their trades in the direction of the long-term trend. Most scalpers would look at higher timeframes to assess the long-term trend. However, there is an easier way to assess the long-term trend without having to shift timeframes.

The 200-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA) is a widely accepted moving average line used to determine trend direction. Traders could identify trend direction based on the slope of the 200 EMA and the location of price in relation to the 200 EMA.

Heiken Ashi Smoothed

Trends are very important in the lower timeframes. Price would often move towards the direction of the trend rather than flow against it.

The Heiken Ashi Smoothed indicator is one of the most underrated indicators when it comes to identifying the general trend direction. It is very reliable and produces less false signals which are common during choppy markets. Given that the lower timeframes are notorious for being too choppy, using a reliable indicator like the Heiken Ashi Smoothed indicator would definitely improve win rates.

The Heiken Ashi Smoothed indicator indicates trend direction by displaying bars on the price chart. These bars are colored depending on the direction of the trend. Blue bars indicate a bullish trend while red bars indicate a bearish trend. The bars also tend to get longer and bigger whenever the trend strengthens and contracts whenever the trend weakens.

Cronex T DeMarker

The Cronex T DeMarker indicator is an oscillating indicator which indicates trend direction and momentum.

It displays histogram bars to indicate trend. Positive bars indicate a bullish trend while negative bars indicate a bearish trend. The bars also change color depending on momentum. Green bars indicate that the current bar has a higher figure than the previous bar and is interpreted as a bullish signal. Red bars on the other hand indicate that the current bar has a lower figure than the previous bar and is interpreted as a bearish signal.

The indicator also has a blue line which mimics the movement of price action. It is then paired with a signal line colored orange. Having the blue line above the orange line indicates a bullish signal while having the blue line below the orange line indicates a bearish signal.

Trading Strategy

This strategy trades on the confluence of the signals provided by the 200 EMA, Heiken Ashi Smoothed indicator and the Cronex T DeMarker indicator.

Trade direction will be filtered based on where price is in relation to the 200 EMA as this will be considered as the long-term trend.

Trades will be taken as soon as the Heiken Ashi Smoothed indicator and the Cronex T DeMarker indicator indicates the same trend direction as the 200 EMA.

On the Heiken Ashi Smoothed indicator, the trend will be based on the color of the bars.

On the Cronex T DeMarker indicator, the trend will be based on whether the histogram bars are positive or negative, the color of the bars, and the crossing over of the blue and orange line.

Indicators:

  • 200 EMA
  • ex4
    • DeMarker: 36
  • ex4
    • MaPeriod: 12

Timeframes: 1-minute, 5-minute and 15-minute charts

Currency Pairs: EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY, EURJPY and GBPJPY

Trading Session: Tokyo open (first 2 hours trading JPY pairs), London session (trading EUR and GBP pairs) and New York session (trading USD pairs)

Buy Trade Setup

Entry

  • Price should be above 200 EMA indicating a bullish long-term trend.
  • The Heiken Ashi Smoothed indicator should change to blue indicating a bullish trend reversal.
  • The Cronex T DeMarker histogram bars should shift from negative to positive and should change to color green.
  • The Cronex T DeMarker blue line should cross above the orange line indicating a bullish trend reversal.
  • These bullish signals should be closely aligned.
  • Enter a buy order on the confirmation of the conditions above.

Stop Loss

  • Set the stop loss a little below the Heiken Ashi Smoothed indicator.

Take Profit

  • Set the take profit target at 2x the risk on the stop loss.

DeMarker Smooth Forex Scalping Strategy 1

DeMarker Smooth Forex Scalping Strategy 2

Sell Trade Setup

Entry

  • Price should be below 200 EMA indicating a bearish long-term trend.
  • The Heiken Ashi Smoothed indicator should change to red indicating a bearish trend reversal.
  • The Cronex T DeMarker histogram bars should shift from positive to negative and should change to color red.
  • The Cronex T DeMarker blue line should cross below the orange line indicating a bearish trend reversal.
  • These bearish signals should be closely aligned.
  • Enter a sell order on the confirmation of the conditions above.

Stop Loss

  • Set the stop loss a little above the Heiken Ashi Smoothed indicator.

Take Profit

  • Set the take profit target at 2x the risk on the stop loss.

Conclusion

This trading strategy provides traders a positive expectancy over the long-term. The fixed reward-risk ratio of 2:1 ensures that traders gain more whenever they win compared to their losses.

The key to this strategy is to trade based on the rules, while identifying momentum price movements which coincides with the direction of the trend.

 

Bykov Signal Forex Scalping Strategy

“Buy low, sell high.” This is the only way to make money in the forex market. There is of course the exact opposite, which is selling high and buying low, which applies for shorting the market. Get these two right and you are on your way to make money out of the forex market.

But how would you know if price is low enough to buy or high enough to sell?

Well, you don’t. Trading is all about probabilities so you would never know where the market is going. What you could do though is assess if price is not too high to buy or too low to sell.

Traders are often guilty of buying at the peak or selling at the bottom. However, there is a way to ascertain that you are never buying at the peak or selling at the bottom. This is by waiting for mean retracements to occur.

Mean retracements occur when price would revert to its average. Prices that are close to the average could arguably be not too high or not too low because it is near the average. These areas are reasonable areas to trade. As soon as you see price starting to shift momentum to one direction coming from the mean, then it may be a signal to trade towards the direction of the new momentum while trading at a reasonable price.

Bykov Signal Forex Scalping Strategy allows traders to trade momentum signals coming from the mean. This allows traders to trade at a better price prior to the rapid price movement that comes after a momentum shift.

50-Period Exponential Moving Average (EMA)

There are many ways to identify if price has reversed or retraced back to its mean. There are oscillators and other indicators that could help with this.

One of the most basic yet very effective ways to identify mean retracement is through moving averages. Price would often push away from the mean during expansion phases, yet it would always come back to the mean based on moving averages at some point. Then, after such mean retracement, price would usually bounce off it. This is the reason why moving averages often act as dynamic areas of support or resistance whenever price touches it.

The 50-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA) is a popular moving average which price would often bounce off from on the lower timeframes. This is because the 50 EMA corresponds to shorter period moving averages on the higher timeframes, such as the 20-period moving average. These moving averages are very effective during trending markets.

Buyers vs. Sellers v3

The Buyers vs Sellers indicator is a custom indicator which aids traders in identifying whether it is the bulls (buyers) or bears (sellers) that are dominating the market. It does this by printing bars on a separate window. Bullish bars are colored lime while bearish bars are colored red.

This indicator works well as a market sentiment filter. It allows traders to trade only in the direction of the market’s directional bias.

Bykov Trend Signal

The Bykov Trend Signal indicator is a momentum indicator which helps traders identify trade direction as well as the exact entry points.

This indicator provides entry signals based on momentum shifts. It then conveniently places an arrow on the candle where it detects a momentum shift. These arrows could be used as an entry signal.

Trading Strategy

This trading strategy trades on momentum signals after a mean retracement or whenever price is located near the average price.

The strategy identifies the mean using the 50 EMA line. Price should retrace or should be located near the 50 EMA line to be considered as a viable trade. Trades should also be taken in the direction where price is located in relation to the 50 EMA. This ensures that we are not trading against a dynamic support or resistance, but rather trading bounces off it.

Trend direction and market sentiment should also be confirmed based on the Buyers vs. Sellers indicator.

Trades could be taken as soon as the previous two conditions are confirmed and the Bykov Trend Signal indicator prints an entry signal in the same direction.

Indicators:

  • 50 EMA
  • BvS v3.ex4
    • BvSPeriod: 30
  • ex4
    • RISK: 15
    • SSP: 18

Preferred Time Frames: 5-minute chart

Currency Pairs: EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY, EURJPY and GBPJPY

Trading Session: Tokyo open (JPY pairs); London session (EUR & GBP pairs); New York session (USD pairs)

Buy Trade Setup

Entry

  • Price should retrace or be near the area of the 50 EMA.
  • Price should close above the 50 EMA.
  • The Buyers vs. Sellers indicator should be printing lime bars indicating a bullish trend direction.
  • The Bykov Trend Signal indicator should print an arrow pointing up indicating a bullish entry signal.
  • The Buyers vs. Sellers and the Bykov Trend Signal indicators’ bullish signals should be closely aligned.
  • Enter a buy order on the confirmation of the conditions above.

Stop Loss

  • Set the stop loss on the fractal below the entry candle.

Exit

  • Close the trade as soon as the Buyers vs. Sellers indicator prints a red bar.
  • Close the trade as soon as the Bykov Trend Signal indicator prints an arrow pointing down.

Bykov Signal Forex Scalping Strategy 1

Bykov Signal Forex Scalping Strategy 2

Sell Trade Setup

Entry

  • Price should retrace or be near the area of the 50 EMA.
  • Price should close below the 50 EMA.
  • The Buyers vs. Sellers indicator should be printing red bars indicating a bearish trend direction.
  • The Bykov Trend Signal indicator should print an arrow pointing down indicating a bearish entry signal.
  • The Buyers vs. Sellers and the Bykov Trend Signal indicators’ bearish signals should be closely aligned.
  • Enter a sell order on the confirmation of the conditions above.

Stop Loss

  • Set the stop loss on the fractal above the entry candle.

Exit

  • Close the trade as soon as the Buyers vs. Sellers indicator prints a lime bar.
  • Close the trade as soon as the Bykov Trend Signal indicator prints an arrow pointing up.

Bykov Signal Forex Scalping Strategy 3

Bykov Signal Forex Scalping Strategy 4

Conclusion

This strategy works well as a retracement or congestion bounce type of strategy off a dynamic support or resistance, which in this strategy would be the 50 EMA. This strategy allows for very huge gains which is typical in these types of strategy.

However, bounces off a dynamic support or resistance is not always a high probability type of strategy. One of the best ways to improve win rates using this strategy is to incorporate a price action type of strategy such as price or candlestick patterns, or support and resistance breakouts. It would also serve this strategy well if it is aligned with the higher timeframe trend direction.

 

Gann HiLo Fast Trend Forex Scalping Strategy

Scalping is a fast-paced type of trading. Among all four types of trading based on holding periods, scalping is the fastest. Traders get in and get out of a trade within minutes.

Being a fast-paced type of trading, scalping strategies thrive on very fast-moving markets with high volatility. Traders need this kind of price movement for them to profit in scalping. Minute price movements would do them no good because of the spread, which is the main hurdle that scalpers need to overcome.

One of the best types of market to find high volatility are markets with fast-paced price movement is in a strong trending market. However, many traders find it difficult to trade on such markets especially on the lower timeframes because traders often run the risk of trading on a whipsaw price movement. This is when traders end up trading at the very end of a fast-moving trend.

Trading on retracements is one of the best ways to trade on a fast trending market while avoiding trading on a whipsaw. Gann HiLo Fast Trend Forex Scalping Strategy provides a strategy that could help traders profit on such kind of market while taking entries on retracements.

Moving Average Dynamic Support and Resistance

If there is one type of market where moving averages flourish on, it would be a trending market. Moving averages simply work well in trending markets. It is great for identifying trend direction, trend strength and dynamic supports and resistances.

Trend direction could easily be identified using moving averages based on the location of price in relation to the moving averages, the direction of a moving average slope, and by the location of a shorter-period moving average in relation to a longer-period moving average.

Trend strength on the other hand could be assessed based on the steepness of a moving average slope and the gap between two moving averages.

Dynamic areas of support and resistance could also be observed using a pair of moving averages. During a trending market condition, price would often have short periods of retracement. However, it will usually respect the area around the longer-period moving average. The area between the two moving averages could serve as a dynamic area of support and resistance where price would retrace to. After such retracement, price would usually resume the direction of the trend.

Gann HiLo Activator Bars

The Gann HiLo Activator Bars is a momentum indicator used to identify the direction of the short-term trend. It does so by overlaying bars over the candlesticks.

In this setup, the Gann HiLo Activator Bars are colored blue to indicate a bullish short-term trend, while the bars are colored orange to indicate a bearish short-term trend.

Trading Strategy

This strategy is used to trade on strong trends with steep slopes. It provides trade signals right after a short retracement to the dynamic support or resistance.

In this strategy, we will be using the 5 and 30-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA) as the basis for our dynamic support and resistance. Trades will be taken in the direction of the trend based on the two moving averages.

Identifying the end of a retracement is usually the difficult part in trading retracements. To objectively identify the end of the retracement, we will be using the short-term trend reversal signals of the Gann HiLo Activator Bars. Trades will be taken as soon as the Gann HiLo Activator Bars change color in the direction of the moving averages’ trend.

Indicators:

  • 5 EMA (green)
  • 30 EMA (brown)
  • Gann HiLo activator bars.ex4
    • Lb: 5

Timeframe: 5-minute chart

Currency Pairs: EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY, EURJPY and GBPJPY

Trading Session: London session (EUR and GBP pairs); New York session (USD pairs)

Buy Trade Setup

Entry

  • The 5 EMA should be above the 30 EMA indicating a bullish trend.
  • Both the 5 EMA and the 30 EMA should be sloping up indicating a strong bullish trend.
  • Price should retrace towards the area between the 5 and 30 EMA causing the Gann HiLo Activator Bars to change to orange.
  • Price should close back above the 5 EMA indicating the end of the retracement.
  • Enter a buy order as soon as the Gann HiLo Activator Bars change to color blue.

Stop Loss

  • Set the stop loss on the fractal below the entry candle.

Exit

  • Close the trade as soon as the Gann HiLo Activator bars change to orange.

Gann HiLo Fast Trend Forex Scalping Strategy 1

Gann HiLo Fast Trend Forex Scalping Strategy 2

Sell Trade Setup

Entry

  • The 5 EMA should be below the 30 EMA indicating a bearish trend.
  • Both the 5 EMA and the 30 EMA should be sloping down indicating a strong bearish trend.
  • Price should retrace towards the area between the 5 and 30 EMA causing the Gann HiLo Activator Bars to change to blue.
  • Price should close back below the 5 EMA indicating the end of the retracement.
  • Enter a sell order as soon as the Gann HiLo Activator Bars change to color orange.

Stop Loss

  • Set the stop loss on the fractal above the entry candle.

Exit

  • Close the trade as soon as the Gann HiLo Activator bars change to blue.

Gann HiLo Fast Trend Forex Scalping Strategy 3

Gann HiLo Fast Trend Forex Scalping Strategy 4

Conclusion

This trading strategy is a version of the usual dynamic support and resistance trading strategy. With the traditional dynamic support and resistance strategies, trades are taken as soon as price closes back outside the dynamic area of support or resistance. However, traders often run into problems as most traders would subjectively decide whether the retracement has ended or not.

This strategy makes the decision making more objective. Instead of judging by how the candles are behaving as it enters the area of the support or resistance, traders could make a decision based on whether the Gann HiLo Activator Bars would resume the direction of the initial trend.

 

Bollinger Keltner Squeeze Forex Scalping Strategy

The forex market has two phases – expansion and contraction. Expansion phases occur when the market is moving strongly in one direction. This is the phase which attracts many traders to trade because of the sheer size of price movements. Contraction phase on the other hand is characterized by a very timid market movement. Price would typically have a small range and would usually be observed when the market is indecisive. Another scenario where contractions occur would be retracements. This is when the market starts to run sideways or slightly move back coming from a strong expansion phase.

Traders often do not get attracted to contraction phases. This is because during this phase, the market moves too slowly thereby showing little opportunity to profit. Traders would always prefer to trade during the expansion phase. However, many traders often make the mistake of trading too late into a strong momentum move. Many would trade as the trend is ending. The best way to trade the market is to take trades right at the end of a contraction phase as the market starts to expand.

One popular way to trade contractions or squeezes is through the use of Bollinger Bands and the Keltner Channels. Some traders would consider the market to be contracting when the Bollinger Bands are squeezed inside the Keltner Channel. Then, traders would often take the trade as the market expands causing the Bollinger Bands to expand outside of the Keltner Channel.

The Bollinger Keltner Squeeze Forex Scalping Strategy is based on the use of Bollinger Bands and Keltner Channels as a basis for a strong momentum push coming from a contraction phase. However, instead of using the traditional Bollinger Bands and Keltner Channel indicators, this strategy uses a custom indicator which identifies these phases and displays it as an oscillator.

Bollinger Squeeze v3

The Bollinger Squeeze indicator is an oscillating indicator which is based on the squeeze action between the Bollinger Bands and the Keltner Channel.

It identifies contraction and expansion phases as well as the direction of the new trend. It then displays this information as histogram bars. Positive bars indicate a bullish momentum while negative bars indicate a bearish momentum.

The bars also change colors depending on the momentum of the trend. Bullish trends that are getting stronger are colored lime green, while weakening bullish trends are colored light green. Bearish trends that are getting stronger are colored indian red, while weakening bearish trends are colored light pink.

Buy Sell Arrows Scalper

The Buy Sell Arrows Scalper is a momentum indicator which identifies momentum reversals and provides trading signals accordingly.

It draws a line plotted on the price chart. This line then changes color depending on the direction of the trend. A dodger blue line indicates a bullish momentum, while a red line indicates a bearish momentum. The indicator also conveniently plots an arrow pointing the direction of the trend whenever it detects a momentum shift. These arrows could be used as an entry signal.

Trading Strategy

This strategy is based on the confluence of the Bollinger Squeeze indicator and the Buy Sell Arrows Scalper.

Trades are taken only in the direction of the long-term trend. In this strategy, we will be using the 200-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA) to identify the long-term trend direction. Trades will only be taken in the direction of the trend based on where price has closed in relation to the 200 EMA.

Then, we wait for a confluence between the Bollinger Squeeze indicator and the Buy Sell Arrows Scalper which indicates a trade direction that agrees with the long-term trend direction. Trade signals should be closely aligned since these indicators tend to produce signals close enough only when the momentum reversal is strong.

Indicators:

  • 200 EMA
  • ex4 (default setting)
  • ex4
    • bolDev: 3.0
    • keltPrd: 18
    • keltFactor: 2.0
    • momPrd: 24

Preferred Time Frames: 5-minute chart

Currency Pairs: EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY, EURJPY and GBPJPY

Trading Session: Tokyo open (JPY pairs), London open (EUR and GBP pairs) and New York session (USD pairs)

Buy Trade Setup

Entry

  • Price should be above the 200 EMA indicating a bullish long-term trend.
  • The Buy Sell Arrows Scalper line should change to blue and should plot an arrow pointing up indicating a bullish momentum.
  • The Bollinger Squeeze histograms should cross above zero and should change to lime green indicating a strong bullish momentum.
  • These bullish momentum signals should be closely aligned.
  • Enter a buy order on the confirmation of the conditions above.

Stop Loss

  • Set the stop loss on the fractal below the entry candle.

Exit

  • Close the trade as soon as the Buy Sell Arrows Scalper line changes to red and plots an arrow pointing down.
  • Close the trade as soon as the Bollinger Squeeze histograms crosses below zero.

Bollinger Keltner Squeeze Forex Scalping Strategy 1

Bollinger Keltner Squeeze Forex Scalping Strategy 2

Sell Trade Setup

Entry

  • Price should be below the 200 EMA indicating a bearish long-term trend.
  • The Buy Sell Arrows Scalper line should change to red and should plot an arrow pointing down indicating a bearish momentum.
  • The Bollinger Squeeze histograms should cross below zero and should change to indian red indicating a strong bearish momentum.
  • These bearish momentum signals should be closely aligned.
  • Enter a sell order on the confirmation of the conditions above.

Stop Loss

  • Set the stop loss on the fractal above the entry candle.

Exit

  • Close the trade as soon as the Buy Sell Arrows Scalper line changes to blue and plots an arrow pointing up.
  • Close the trade as soon as the Bollinger Squeeze histograms crosses above zero.

Bollinger Keltner Squeeze Forex Scalping Strategy 3

Bollinger Keltner Squeeze Forex Scalping Strategy 4

Conclusion

This strategy is a decent strategy that could produce good results when timed right.

Although not all trades will be profitable, there will be many cases wherein right after the entry signal, price would start to expand towards the direction of the trade. This allows traders to gain huge profits. However, there are also times when the market would reverse and take back much of the profit. To counteract this, traders should also implement moving stop losses to breakeven when possible and trailing the stop loss to protect profits.

Final words

No trading strategy will be 100% accurate all the time. Strategies work when it is applied in the right market condition, whether it is trending, reversing, expanding, contracting, or whatever condition it is in. The key is to identify the right strategy for the current moment.

Trading is also 20% skill and 80% attitude. All trading styles would sooner or later expose a trader’s attitude, whether they would allow greed to take back their profits or fear to prevent them from earning. Scalping only does this much faster. Trading with the right attitude and learning along the way is the best way to earn from forex.

Trade wisely!!!

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