Scalping stocks: what I would track before trusting the method

The theme that keeps coming up with scalping is selectivity. A fast method is not automatically a good method unless the trader can define the exact market condition, spread, stop size, and time of day. I would want a journal that separates clean momentum trades from random quick clicks, then reviews the losing trades by setup type. The most useful metric may not be win rate alone, but whether the average loss stays controlled when the first read is wrong.

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