In general, there are numerous trading strategies designed by different types of traders to help you make profit in the market.
In order to make profit, traders should focus on eliminating the losing trades and achieving more winning ones. Any trading strategy that leads you towards this goal could prove to be the winning one.


Scalping
Forex scalping is a popular trading strategy that is focused on smaller market movements. This strategy involves opening a large number of trades in a bid to bring small profits per each.
As a result, scalpers work to generate larger profits by generating a large number of smaller gains. This approach is completely opposite of holding a position for hours, days, or even weeks.
Scalping is very popular in Forex due to its liquidity and volatility. Investors are looking for markets where the price action is moving constantly to capitalize on fluctuations in small increments.
This type of trader tends to focus on profits that are around 5 pips per trade. However, they are hoping that a large number of trades is successful as profits are constant, stable and easy to achieve.
A clear downside to scalping is that you cannot afford to stay in the trade too long. Additionally, scalping requires a lot of time and attention, as you have to constantly analyze charts to find new trading opportunities.


Day Trading
Day trading refers to the process of trading currencies in one trading day. Although applicable in all markets, day trading strategy is mostly used in Forex. This trading approach advises you to open and close all trades within a single day.
No position should stay open overnight to minimize the risk. Unlike scalpers, who are looking to stay in markets for a few minutes, day traders usually stay active over the day monitoring and managing opened trades. Day traders are mostly using 30-min and 1-hour time frames to generate trading ideas.
Many day traders tend to base their trading strategies on news. Scheduled events e.g. economic statistics, interest rates, GDPs, elections etc., tend to have a strong impact on the market.
In addition to the limit set on each position, day traders tend to set a daily risk limit. A common decision among traders is setting a 3% daily risk limit. This will protect your account and capital.


Position Trading
Position trading is a long-term strategy. Unlike scalping and day trading, this trading strategy is primarily focused on fundamental factors.
Minor market fluctuations are not considered in this strategy as they don’t affect the broader market picture.
Position traders are likely to monitor central bank monetary policies, political developments and other fundamental factors to identify cyclical trends. Successful position traders may open just a few trades over the entire year. However, profit targets in these trades are likely to be at least a couple of hundreds pips per each trade.
This trading strategy is reserved for more patient traders as their position may take weeks, months or even years to play out.