Scalp trading is a very fast method of trading by which traders trade stock in a frame of time from seconds to minutes executing a lot of trades during the day. Even though your goal will be for gains of only 1 or 2 pennies per transaction/trade, when you consider the high volume of shares you will be executing, your results can be substantial. In addition, you can still be profitable even if your trade ends up flat. Why? Because when you add liquidity to the market, the ECN will rebate back to you a portion of the trade. Incorporating this one strategy can generate a good income. Specifically, scalp traders trade in between the bid-ask spread. They buy a stock at the bidding price then quickly sell the same position at the asking price. Because this method of quick investing does better on equities that are priced low that are slow moving, scalp traders build their account by transacting large volume. Scalp trading has no big one time profits, yet there are lesser chances of losing thus it is has a lower risk level than swing trading or day trading. But wait, scalp trading is not easily done.