Top picks for brokers to use for scalping Best broker for scalping – IG

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IG is our top-ranked broker for 2025 (available in the US under its tastyfx brand) and my top pick for forex scalping strategies, thanks to its multiple account offerings and execution methods, and its ability to handle active and passive orders. IG offers a commission-based Forex Direct account for agency execution and connects price feeds from major liquidity providers. IG also offers a spread-only (commission-free) account for market-maker execution. It’s also worth noting that IG supports partial fills and auto-accepts active orders without manual intervention – important features for scalpers.

Overall, IG is a top choice for scalpers because of its ability to handle large trade sizes along with its robust execution policies. It’s also worth mentioning that IG’s reputation as a Highly Trusted broker is reinforced by the fact that it won our 2025 Annual Awards for #1 Most Trusted broker (learn more about Trust Score). Learn more by reading my IG review.

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If you are based in the USA and interested in opening an account with IG, learn more about why their US brand, tastyfx, is one of the best US forex brokers by reading my tastyfx review.

Note: I should mention that in its customer agreement, IG strictly prohibits arbitrage practices and prohibits clients from attempting to manipulate prices or exploit server time delays.

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Interactive Brokers caters to forex traders internationally (forex trading for US traders is only available at IBKR to institutional traders) through an agency broker model (or, “riskless principal” model). IBKR aggregates prices from major liquidity providers, which can be suitable for scalpers who want a reliable price feed and quality trade execution coupled with access to complex order types. The IBKR Campus even offers a webinar on Gamma Scalping for options traders.

That said, like nearly all reputable brokers, IBKR has language in its client agreement regarding order execution, and reserves the right to terminate client access, cancel orders, restrict trading activity, and/or freeze accounts over suspicious activity (again, this is all totally normal across major financial institutions). Read my Interactive Brokers review to learn more.

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Saxo is an excellent choice for active traders due to its ability to handle large trade sizes and cater to the needs of day traders and forex scalpers. Saxo also offers a phenomenal platform suite (including an award-winning Desktop Platform) and support for complex orders.

Saxo offers market maker execution for forex trading and publishes its order execution summary. It’s also a member of the Global FxCode. Though Saxo discusses scalping in educational articles on its website, the broker also notes in its business terms that it may cancel or reverse a trade execution or alter the execution method (i.e. manual execution) if it was conducted on a misquoted price or if a client’s strategy deliberately or systematically attempted to exploit such errors. Read my Saxo review to learn more.

Check out the most important pros and cons of scalping as a forex trader:

Scalping can be a viable day trading strategy, despite the demands it can put on traders.

Scalping can be more time-efficient than strategies that require longer trade durations.

Scalping or trading at very short time-frames (seconds to minutes) to capture tiny market movements can be mentally and physically demanding for traders.

Depending on the account agreement terms, scalping may not be permitted for a given broker, account type, and/or available execution method (particularly within the context of latency-driven strategies).

Scalping often requires larger trade sizes (relative to your balance) to return a viable profit. As such, scalping strategies can introduce higher risk/reward levels and result in faster losses.

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