Scalping strategy | How to pick crypto for scalping

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Let's start with the most important factor determining successful scalping, namely volatility.

Volatility is the degree of variation of a trading price series over time. The more volatility is, the more potential profit you can get (Subject to following the trading strategy and risk management).

In order to figure out which instruments have shown the most volatility over the past 24 hours, we can do the following:

Visit the main page of Binance. Chose “Markets” section in the main menu.

In the column “24h Volume” we can see the instruments sorted by volatility from the most volatile to less volatile. We recommend choosing the first 10 instruments for scalping. The top 10 instruments filtered out by maximum volume allows you to avoid situations when the instrument lacks liquidity, being stuck in a range or narrow diapason that complicates scalping.

Foremost, trading with no volatility means that there is a lack of market participants and, in particular, liquidity providers.

The greatest risks are borne by traders with large deposits, who need sufficient liquidity in the market for closing their positions. Thus, there is a risk that large positions in low-liquid instruments can be closed with a large time lag, which usually leads to significant losses due to closing the position at very unfavorable prices.

Another risk is the long and narrow price range where your position will be stuck for a long time before going breakeven or profit.

The list of instruments sorted by volatility is changing rapidly due to migration of capitals shifting from one to another instrument.

As far as, the most important factor in selecting the instruments for trading is volatility, we can identify the volatile instruments by following:

Rapid character of price movement with immediate execution of limit orders of 50-100 000$ is the first sign of the participants` high engagement in the instrument. Such volatility sometimes can reach the pump or dump character of price volatility that is relevant for scalping.

The faster and more actively new ticks appear in the market trade history, the higher the volatility of the instrument. Pay attention to the market trades history that reflects the market orders execution in the real time.

Volatility of the instrument is the main factor you should pay attention while selecting instruments for scalping.

There are three main ways to identify high volatility: “Futures markets” page on the Binance website, where you can filter out the instruments by the 24h trade volume, price movement and tics activity in the CScalp trading platform. Be careful and follow your risk management to stay in profit!