Best Scalping Books: 4 Titles and Who Each One Is For

Start with Bob Volman's Forex Price Action Scalping if you want the longest of the four: it runs to 358 pages, and its description promises hundreds of setups and full coverage of price action principles. Index futures scalpers can look at Teva Lama's E-mini Dow and Mini DAX Scalping Techniques; forex traders who use Heikin Ashi charts can start with the 136-page Scalping Is Fun! 1-4. A scalping book teaches how to take many very short trades, often held for seconds or minutes, for small gains each time. We checked each edition in a book catalog on October 30, 2026, rechecked it on November 1 and again on November 2, and did not reread the books, so the order is not a ranking.

The cost problem is a matter of proportion. Take the same spread and commission on every trade: against the small target of a scalp it is a large slice of the gain, against the target of a swing trade a thin one. A scalper then pays it again on every trade of the day. Before you adopt a method from any of these books, compare its typical target with what one round trip costs you at your broker.

Which book fits which trader

You trade forex and want the longest book

Forex Price Action Scalping was published by Light Tower Publishing in 2011, in a 358-page paperback. Its description promises hundreds of setups, with entries and exits to the pip, plus the psychology of the job and what it calls "clever accounting," and says it is written for aspiring traders who aim to go professional. You can also find it through this Amazon link.

You scalp index futures

E-mini Dow and Mini DAX Scalping Techniques is a 93-page Kindle edition from 2018. Its description says the techniques cover the e-mini Dow, the DAX and the mini DAX, and can be applied to other markets with significant volume. It focuses on adapting to market phases and on trading with fixed rules to keep emotion out. See it on Amazon.

You scalp forex with Heikin Ashi charts

Scalping Is Fun! 1-4 collects four books by the author who writes as Heikin Ashi Trader: fast trading with the Heikin Ashi chart, practical examples, how to rate your trading results, and trading as a flow business. The collection came out first as a Kindle edition in 2016, then as a 136-page paperback published through Amazon Digital Services in 2019, and its description presents it as a strategy for the forex market. The Heikin Ashi chart averages each candle's four prices and opens it at the midpoint of the previous Heikin Ashi candle, so runs of same-colored candles stand out and small pullbacks often disappear; the chart below shows the hourly EUR/USD candles of the week of October 19, 2026 redrawn that way. The 2016 Kindle edition is on another Amazon listing.

You want a quick overview

Andrew Ellis's Scalping Trading Top 5 Strategies is a 64-page CreateSpace book from 2016, built around five strategies for forex and options. At that length, it can only introduce each strategy; use it as a starting point, not a method.

For broader reading, see our technical analysis books, or browse all our trading reviews.