The key word, there, is “considered”.
Many aspiring traders [U]believe[/U] it, but their results demonstrate how mistaken an approach it is, for most people.
In a field of endeavour in which the overall success-rates are so low, aiming at scalping must be one of the most sure-fire ways of stacking the deck even further against oneself. And of course there are reasons for that. [I][U]Especially[/U][/I] in the case of forex, where most participants trade against counterparty market-makers who are holding the other sides of their trades and are [I][U]certainly[/U][/I] not going to tolerate a successful scalper, when they’re the people being scalped! 