A foreign exchange trading strategy that seeks to gain currency by making small price changes and is often described as skimming off small profits by entering and leaving the ground rules several times a day.
Forex scalping differs from day trading, which takes a position in a liquid object and then liquidates it, while forex scalping never holds the position into the next trading cycle or overnight.
It requires the investor to sit in front of a computer for the entire duration of the trade, and can afford or even enjoy a very intense focus attitude, and the profits are very small at a time, not surprisingly a few at a time.