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## BPA trading room discussion: July 28, 2015

> ## BPA 交易室讨论：2015年7月28日

Given the many questions about 1-point scalping strategies in the trading room, BPA forums, course feedback, and elsewhere, Al took the chance to discuss topic during the daily webinar. A follow up comment two days later is also appended to clarify the 1-point scalp topic with an example of one of Al’s 1-point scalp trades!

> 鉴于在交易室、BPA论坛、课程反馈和其他地方出现了许多关于1点剥头皮策略的问题，Al 利用每日网络研讨会的机会讨论了这个话题。两天后，Al 又补充了一条评论，并通过一个1点剥头皮交易的案例来进一步阐明这个话题！

Audio duration: 12min 54sec — Scroll down for images

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## Audio transcript

> ## 音频文字记录

### Why a 1-point scalping strategy is a loser

> ### 为什么1点剥头皮策略是失败的

Traders are always interested in scalping. I’m interested in scalping. Probably most of the trades I take end up as scalps, even if I initially take them as swings. Now, I want to say a few important things about scalping. (I) addressed this a little bit in a comment on the Brooks Training Course website yesterday or the day before. I had some questions about it recently, so I decided to talk about. I also am talking about it more in the new edition of the course.

> 交易者总是对剥头皮感兴趣。我也对剥头皮感兴趣。我做的交易中，可能大部分最终都变成了剥头皮，即使我最初是把它们当作波段交易来做的。现在，我想说几句关于剥头皮的重要话。我昨天或前天在布鲁克斯培训课程网站的评论中稍微提到了这个问题。最近我收到了一些关于这个问题的问题，所以我决定谈谈这个问题。我在新版的课程中也更多地谈到了这个问题。

Now, I think it’s okay to scalp. I do not think it’s okay to scalp full-time for a living. It’s really tempting to do it because when traders start out, they work so hard to get money that will allow them to trade, they just don’t want to take a chance of losing any. And the best way to do that is to focus on risk. And when you trade, you have to be thinking about three things; risk, reward, and probability. You can favor one over the other. For example, you may favor low risk; you may favor high probability; you may favor big reward. But it’s a mistake to just look at one and pretend that the other two do not exist.

> 现在，我认为剥头皮是可以的。但我不认为全职靠剥头皮谋生是可以的。这确实很有诱惑力，因为当交易者刚开始时，他们非常努力地赚钱，以便能够进行交易，他们不希望冒任何损失的风险。而做到这一点的最好方法就是关注风险。当你交易时，你必须考虑三件事：风险、回报和概率。你可以偏好其中之一，而不是其他。例如，你可能偏好低风险；你可能偏好高概率；你可能偏好高回报。但只关注其中之一，而假装其他两者不存在，这是一个错误。

### Starting out: Focusing on risk only not good

> ### 刚开始时：只关注风险是不好的

When a trader starts out, usually the trader only thinks about one thing: Risk. “I worked so hard to get this money. I really don’t want to blow my account. I’m going to trade with the tightest stop that I possibly can,” and that is okay a lot of the time. But sometimes, the price action does not allow for the kind of stop that you’d like to use. So your choice is either to increase your stop — to use an appropriate size stop — or not trade. However, most traders when they start out come up with a third choice, and that third choice is, “I’m going to stick with the stop that I have to use. I definitely want to trade. I realize that the bars are big and I probably need a bigger stop, but I really can’t afford a bigger stop, so I’m just going to take my chances and use my usual stop.” And that is what I mean by ignoring probability and reward. You got to think about the entire package. You can’t simply focus on a stop — your stop size and say, “I really need that minimum risk, and the most I can risk is 2 points. I’m just gonna take my chance.” By taking your chance, I think what you’re saying to yourself — and you realize this — is that you know the probability is not as good as you would like it to be. So what you’re saying is, “I’m gonna ignore probability and — and just trade on the basis of risk alone. And that is a losing strategy.

> 当一个交易者刚起步时，通常他只会想到一件事：风险。‘我这么辛苦才拿到这些钱，我真的不想爆仓。我会用我能用到的最紧的止损。’这句话很多时候是可以接受的。但有时候，价格行为不允许你使用那样的止损。这时你的选择只有两种：要么把止损放宽到合适的大小，要么不交易。然而，大多数新手交易者会想出第三种办法——也就是‘我就用我必须用的那个止损。我确实想交易。我知道K线很大，可能需要更大的止损，但我负担不起更大的止损，所以我就只能碰运气，继续用我平时的止损。’这就是我所说的忽视概率和风险回报比。你必须考虑整体情况。你不能仅仅盯着止损——止损的大小说‘我真的需要那个最小风险，我最多能承担2点的风险，我就碰碰运气。’当你碰运气时，我想你在对自己说——而且你自己也清楚——那就是你知道概率不如你希望的那么好。换句话说，你说‘我要忽视概率，仅凭风险来交易。’而这是一种亏损的策略。

Now, as far as making a living trading for a 1 point scalp, I always say that 1 point is the smallest scalp that I ever plan to take in the Emini. So if I’m taking a trade in the Emini, and I think there’s very little profit potential but I think there’s high probability of that profit, the smallest profit I’ll ever plan to take going into a trade is 1 point. Sometimes after I go in, I’ll get out with a 1 or 2-tick profit or a 1 or 2-tick loss, but when I put the trade on — the smallest trade I’ll ever consider is one that will get me at least 1 point. If I’m trading stocks, the smallest profit that I’ll ever consider in the stock is 10 cents. If I’m trading ForEx markets, the smallest profit that I’ll ever consider is 10 pips.

> 就以1点剥头皮为生而言，我总是说1点是我在迷你标普（ES）中计划进行的最小剥头皮。所以如果我在Emini中进场交易，我认为获利潜力很小但概率很高，我计划在交易中能够获得的最小获利是1点。有时进场后，我可能会以1到2个tick的盈亏离场，但当我下单时——我会考虑的最小交易是能够至少赚取1点的交易。如果我交易股票，我愿意考虑的最小获利是10美分。如果我交易外汇市场，我愿意考虑的最小获利是10个点。

### All I need is a ‘D’ to pass, right?

> ### 我只需要一个“D”就能通过，对吧？

All right. Now, so those are the minimums. Now, think about it — let’s say you have a son or a daughter, and he or she is in college, and she comes to you one day really, really excited and says, “Dad, Mom, guess what? All I need to do is get a D to graduate . That’s the minimum that I need. And, you know what, Mom, I can get a minimum wage when I graduate, too. And, I can therefore not worry about starving, and I can get a college degree,” right? And you just think about that. There are minimums for everything in this world, and if your child comes up to you and says, “I’m excited. All I have to do is get a D and I can graduate from college.” That is true, but then try to get into business school, or law school, or medical school — you’re not going to do it. And then your child says, “I want to earn the minimum wage,” and that’s fine if you’re 16 years old, but if you’re 30 or 40 years old, that’s just not good enough, right? You will not be able to have a very good life. If, as a trader, you go in thinking that “I’m gonna trade for 1 point scalps all the time, or I’m gonna trade for 10 pips scalp in the ForEx market all the time,” you will lose money. And it’s because of what I just said a few minutes ago. I’ll talk about that a little bit more in a moment.

> 好了。现在，这就是最低要求。现在，想想看——假设你有个儿子或女儿，他/她在大学里，有一天兴高采烈地来找你说：‘爸，妈，猜猜看？我只要拿个D就能毕业。这就是我需要的最低要求。你知道吗，妈，我毕业后也能拿到最低工资。这样我就不用担心挨饿，还能拿到大学学位。’对吧？你就这样想想。在这个世界上，一切都有最低要求，如果你的孩子来告诉你，‘我很兴奋，我只要拿个D就能大学毕业。’这句话没错，但如果你想让他进商学院、法学院或医学院——你就做不到。接着孩子又说，‘我想赚最低工资。’如果他才16岁，这还可以接受；但如果他已经30或40岁，这就远远不够了，对吧？你不可能过上很好的生活。如果作为一个交易者，你一直以为‘我要一直做1点剥头皮，或者在外汇市场里一直做10个点的剥头皮’，你就会亏钱。这是因为我刚才几分钟前说过的。我一会儿会再详细说一下。

### Successful traders do take 1-point scalps, but…

> ### 成功的交易者确实会做1点剥头皮，但…

Now there are a lot of successful traders who take a lot of 1-point scalps. However, all of those successful traders take those 1-point scalps when it’s appropriate. They don’t go into every trade thinking I’m going to go for a 1-point scalp. This one requires a 5-point stop. I’m gonna go for a 1-point scalp, okay? Now, I’ve met a lot of traders in my life. I’ve been doing this now for a long, long time. I have never met a trader who was making a living only going for minimum scalps. I’ve met a lot of traders who have tried to make living going for minimum scalps — in other words, every trade, I’m gonna make a 1-point scalp. Or every trade, I’m gonna make a 10-pip scalp in the ForEx market. And I’ve met many traders who have done well periodically doing that, so they might make money every day for a week, or two, or three. But then, they start losing money, and I get an e-mail, “Al, I won 25 of the past 26 days, and I don’t understand it — I gave it all back in the past three days.” And it’s because those 26 days were all small-range, tight trading range days, and they were suitable for 1-point scalps, and then the market changes; the price action changes, as it always does. It never stays one way. And it called for bigger stops and bigger profit targets. And if you continue to trade it as if it’s a 1-point scalp market, you are going to lose.

> 现在有很多成功的交易者，他们经常做1点剥头皮交易。然而，所有这些成功的交易者都是在合适的时机做1点剥头皮交易。他们不会在每次交易时都想着“我要做1点剥头皮交易”。这一次需要5点的止损。我要做1点剥头皮交易，好吗？我在生活中遇到了很多交易者。我已经做了很长时间的交易了。我从未遇到过一个只靠做最小剥头皮交易谋生的交易者。我遇到过很多试图通过做最小剥头皮交易谋生的交易者——换句话说，每次交易，我都要做1点剥头皮交易。或者每次交易，我都要在外汇市场上做10个点的剥头皮交易。我也遇到过很多交易者，他们定期这样做，表现不错，可能每天赚钱一周、两周或三周。但随后，他们开始亏钱，我就会收到一封电子邮件：“Al，我在过去26天中赢了25天，我不明白——我在过去三天中把所有钱都亏回去了。”这是因为那26天都是小幅震荡、窄幅交易区间的日子，适合做1点剥头皮交易，然后市场发生了变化；价格行为也发生了变化，这总是如此。它不会一直保持一种状态。这需要更大的止损和更大的盈利目标。如果你继续把它当作1点剥头皮市场来交易，你就会亏损。

So, there are other problems with 1-point scalps. The reason why you have minimums, is you have problems with overhead. Why go for a 1-point scalp and not a 2-tick scalp? I had a friend who traded for 2-tick scalps in the Emini, and he was doing well, but I don’t know if he was doing well long time, and the problem with going for a 2-tick scalp or a 5-pip scalp is overhead. You get the problems with spread, commissions, slippage, and then a very important problem — mistakes. And when you consider all of that, if you’re trying to make money trading for a 1-point scalp or a 10-pip scalp, you probably have to be right 90 percent of the time, and you have to be doing it consistently for years.

> 因此，1点剥头皮交易还有其他问题。你设置最小值的原因是，你有成本问题。为什么要做1点剥头皮交易，而不是2个跳点的剥头皮交易？我有一个朋友，他在迷你标普上做2个跳点的剥头皮交易，表现不错，但我不知道他是否长期表现不错。做2个跳点或5个点的剥头皮交易的问题在于成本。你会遇到点差、佣金、滑点等问题，还有一个非常重要的问题——错误。当你考虑所有这些因素时，如果你试图通过做1点剥头皮交易或10点剥头皮交易来赚钱，你可能需要在90%的时间内做正确的交易，并且要持续几年这样做。

Now, is that possible? Yes, it is possible, and I know traders who do that, and I know traders who are right 90 percent of the time. I don’t know traders who are right 90 percent of the time and only 1-point scalp. Most of those traders who are right 90 percent of the time, win on 90 percent of the trades are not going for 1-point scalps. A lot of the trades that they take, they go in hoping for a swing — 4 points, 6 points, 8 points. And occasionally, they stay in the trade and make their 4 points, 6 points, or 8 points.

> 那么，这可能吗？是的，这是可能的，我认识一些这样做的交易者，我也认识一些在90%的时间内做正确交易的交易者。我不认识只做1点剥头皮交易且在90%的时间内做正确交易的交易者。大多数在90%的时间内做正确交易、赢得90%交易的交易者并不做1点剥头皮交易。他们做很多交易，希望获得波段收益——4点、6点、8点。偶尔，他们会继续持有交易，获得4点、6点或8点的收益。

Sometimes, they go into a trade looking for a swing — a 10-point trade. And it turns out the price action does not unfold the way they expect, and they end up scalping for 1 point, and that’s okay. But most of the traders who take a lot of 1-point scalps and who are consistently profitable are not going into all of their trades looking for 1-point scalps. A lot of the trades, they are looking for 1-point scalps when the market’s in a quiet trading range with small range, and they can scale in and use wide stops, swing stops. They can get 1-point scalps and they can do well, but that is not how the market always is. Sometimes, the bars are big, the ranges are big, the stops have to be far away, and if you do not use the appropriate stop, you will lose money. So if you apply a 1-point scalp approach to every day, no matter how the price action is, you’re going to lose money because your risk will have to be so far away that a 1-point profit target would require a consistent winning percentage of 90 percent or higher, and that is really hard to do. It’s possible, but it’s really hard to do.

> 有时，他们进入交易时是在寻找一个波段——也就是10点的交易。结果价格行为的发展并不如他们所料，他们最终只能剥头皮赚1点，这也没问题。但是，那些经常做1点剥头皮且持续盈利的交易者，并不是在所有交易中都去寻找1点剥头皮。很多时候，当市场处于窄幅交易区间，波动很小的时候，他们会寻找1点剥头皮，然后可以分批加仓，使用宽止损或波动止损。他们能够拿到1点剥头皮并表现不错，但市场并非总是如此。有时候K线很大，波幅也大，止损必须设得很远，如果你不使用合适的止损，就会亏钱。所以如果你把1点剥头皮的方法生搬硬套到每一天，不管价格行为如何，你都会亏钱，因为你的止损必须设得很远，以至于1点的盈利目标需要你保持90%以上甚至更高的胜率，而这真的很难做到。虽然有可能，但真的很难。

### Paul Rotter—The Flipper

> ### Paul Rotter—The Flipper

Now, you’ve heard me talk about Paul Rotter , and if you look him up on the Internet, you can get some information. He was a scalper, and based upon what I’ve read about him, it appears that he was scalping for 2, 3, 4, or 5 ticks in the Eurex market trading large positions, and doing it for years, and he was making about $60 million a year doing it. And the reason why he’s in the news or the reason why I know about him is because what he did was extremely exceptional. I’m mentioning him because he’s extremely exceptional, and he’s probably the only guy in the world who’s doing that. So what’s the chance that you or I are going to be able to do that? The chance is not very good.

> 现在，你们听我说过 Paul Rotter，如果上网查一下，能找到一些资料。他是个剥头皮交易者，根据我看到的资料，他在 Eurex 市场进行大规模持仓时，每次剥头皮的幅度大约是 2、3、4 或 5 个点，坚持多年，年收入约为 6000 万美元。他之所以成为新闻焦点，或者我之所以知道他，正是因为他的做法极其罕见。我提到他正是因为他极其罕见，或许全世界只有他一个人在这样操作。那么，你我能否也做到这一点的概率有多大？概率并不高。

### Making a living on 1-point scalps?

> ### 靠 1 点的剥头皮谋生吗？

So back to 1-point scalps. I don’t have a problem with 1-point scalps. I take 1-point scalps every day, but the price action has to be appropriate. And if you’re planning on making a living going for 1-point scalps, and you are successful, please let me know because then I’ll say for the rest of my trading career, that, “Hey, I knew this guy or this gal who is making a living trading 1-point scalps.” I have never met a person who has been able to do that. It’s probably disheartening to hear, but that is the reality. So 1-point scalps are fine if the price action is appropriate, but so much of the time the price action is not appropriate for a 1-point scalp that if you only use that approach to trading, you’re going to lose money. You cannot ignore risk, and you cannot ignore reward. So 1-point scalps, they have a place, but if you’re starting out, I think that is not the direction that you should take. The direction you should take is to look for swings and wide stops; it gives you more time to think. Yes, you have to risk more, and sometimes the stop is so far away that you cannot do it. You cannot take the trade.

> 回到1个点位的剥头皮交易。我并不反对1个点位的剥头皮，我每天都在做，但价格行为必须合适才行。如果你打算靠做1个点位的剥头皮来谋生，而且你还成功了，请一定要告诉我，这样我余生交易时都会说：“嘿，我认识这个人，他就是靠做1个点位的剥头皮维持生计的。”我从未遇到过能做到这一点的人。听到这个可能让人沮丧，但这就是现实。所以，如果价格行为合适，1个点位的剥头皮没问题，但很多时候价格行为并不适合做1个点位的剥头皮，如果你只用这种方法交易，你会亏钱。你不能忽视风险，也不能忽视回报。所以1个点位的剥头皮有它的位置，但如果你刚开始交易，我认为那不是你应该走的方向。你应该走的方向是寻找波段交易和宽止损——这给你更多时间思考。是的，你必须承受更大的风险，有时候止损太远，你做不了，那就不做。

So for example, let’s say you buy the 18 close here. You have to be risking about 8 or 9 points, and if you cannot risk that much, do not take the trade. Or you can say, “Well, I can buy the 18 close and I can put the stop below 17.” That’s true. That probably will be acceptable, but it’s not as high a probability bet as putting a stop below 12. So sometimes, you can use a tighter stop and still be okay, but you have a higher probability of success using the appropriate stop.

> 比如，假设你在这里买入 18 收盘价。你需要承担大约 8 或 9 点的风险；如果你无法承担这么大的风险，就不要进场。或者你可以说：“嗯，我可以买入 18 收盘价，并把止损放在 17 下方。”这是对的。这种做法可能可以接受，但相比把止损放在 12 下方，其概率不够高。有时候，你可以使用更紧的止损而仍然可以接受，但如果使用合适的止损，成功的概率会更高。

Can you buy above 26 and put a stop below 26 or 25? I think you cannot do that. So if you buy above 26 for a 1-point scalp and put a stop below 26 or 25, you’re going to lose money (*see note at end). Even on a day like this, it’s just really easy to do. You buy the 35 high, or the 35 close and put a stop below 36 — you’d lose money. So you can lose money on a very strong bull trend day buying. You can be buying all day long and lose money if you’re not willing to use — or if you’re not able to use the appropriate stop.

> 你能不能在26以上买入，然后在26或25以下设置止损？我认为你做不到。所以如果你在26以上买入，打算做1点的短线交易，然后在26或25以下设置止损，你就会亏钱（*见文末注释）。即使在这样的日子里，这也很容易做到。你买入35的高点，或者35的收盘价，然后在36以下设置止损——你会亏钱。所以即使在强劲的多头趋势日，买入也可能亏钱。如果你不愿意使用——或者说你无法使用适当的止损，你可能一整天都在买入，却亏钱。

So if you cannot find a stop that is appropriate that makes sense, you cannot take the trade. So it’s okay to focus on risk, but only take trades if you can assume the appropriate risk. If you cannot use the appropriate stop, don’t get determined to take the trade even though you have to use a tighter stop — just don’t take the trade.   Just wait for a trade where you can use the appropriate stop. So I hope that’s clear.

> 如果你找不到一个合适且合理的止损，那就不要进场。关注风险是可以的，但只有在你能够承担合适风险时才应该入场。如果你无法使用合适的止损，即使必须采用更紧的止损，也不要强行入场 — — 直接放弃这次交易。只要等待出现可以使用合适止损的机会。希望我说清楚了。

All right, enough for the lecture. I hope everybody has a good night. Tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday I think will be really, really interesting days.

> 好了，讲课到此为止。希望大家今晚过得愉快。我认为明天、周四和周五将会是非常、非常有趣的日子。

### Follow up comment: July 30, 2015

> ### 后续评论：2015年7月30日

I’ve taken several buys. I’m currently flat. My last buy was the 31 low, and I scalped for 1-point.

> 我已经做了几次买入交易。我现在持平仓。我最后一次买入是在31号K线的低点，我做了1点的短线交易。

I talked the other day about 1-point scalps, that I do not know of any trader who is making a living with the intention of taking 1-point scalps. But I know many traders who take a lot of 1-point scalps. So what’s the difference? The difference is that a lot of traders take 1-point scalps when they’re appropriate, but they try to get bigger trades whenever they can — 2 points, 3 points, 4 points, 10 points. I think most successful traders do that.

> 前几天我谈到过 1 点的剥头皮，我说我不认识任何靠刻意进行 1 点剥头皮来谋生的交易者。但我知道很多交易者会频繁进行 1 点剥头皮。那么其中的区别是什么？区别在于许多交易者在合适的时候会进行 1 点剥头皮，但他们会在有机会时尽量争取更大的交易 —— 比如 2 点、3 点、4 点、甚至 10 点。我认为大多数成功的交易者都是这么做的。

If you’re good enough to make a living with 1-point scalps, you’re certainly good enough to also take 2, 3, 4, 10-point trades as well. So most of the traders who do take a lot of 1-point scalps do not restrict themselves to 1-point scalps. They’re good enough to make more than that with a lot of trades. So no successful trader goes in expecting to make a living with 1-point scalps even though they end up taking a lot of 1-point scalps. If you’re good enough to make a living with 1-point scalps, you’ll make more if you’re flexible enough to take bigger trades when they are appropriate as well.

> 如果你的水平足以靠1点剥头皮谋生，那么你肯定也能承担2点、3点、4点、10点的交易。因此，很多频繁进行1点剥头皮的交易者并不会局限于仅做1点剥头皮。他们有能力通过大量交易赚取更多。所以，没有成功的交易者会一开始就指望仅靠1点剥头皮谋生，尽管他们最终可能会进行很多次1点剥头皮。如果你的水平足以靠1点剥头皮谋生，那么在适当时机灵活地承担更大规模的交易时，你的盈利空间会更大。

Taking a 1-point scalp above 26 does work, but unstated point is that one winner does not offset the many losers a 1-point scalping strategy will suffer.

> * 在26以上进行1点剥头皮是有效的，但未言明的要点是，一次盈利无法弥补1点剥头皮策略所面临的众多亏损。

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