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title: "Tick scalping - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "Taking positions for a handful of ticks at a time, often held for seconds. Where the profit comes from a pricing lag rather than a market view, firms…"
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last_modified: "2026-09-22"
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Tooling and execution

# Tick scalping

Taking positions for a handful of ticks at a time, often held for seconds. Where the profit comes from a pricing lag rather than a market view, firms treat it as exploiting the environment.

GFN’s figure

GFN's 2 minutes minimum hold applies to every trade on every programme, in both the evaluation and funded stages - which makes tick-level holding periods impossible by design.

In detail

## Tick scalping, explained

Legitimate very short-term trading and tick scalping that targets a feed delay can look similar in a statement and are judged differently, because what matters is what the strategy depends on.

A minimum hold time removes the ambiguity by making the shortest holds impossible, which is why most prop firms now publish one.

[The rule in full →](https://getfundednow.com/rules/scalping) · [Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More tooling and execution](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/tooling)

Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Scalping](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/scalping) - Taking many short-duration trades for small individual gains. It depends on tight costs and reliable execution, because the spread and commission are a large share of every result.
- [Latency arbitrage](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/latency-arbitrage) - Trading on a price that is known to be stale because a faster feed has already moved. It profits from a delay in the environment rather than from any view about the market, and it is prohibited industry-wide.
- [High-frequency trading](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/high-frequency-trading) - Automated trading at very high order rates and very short holding periods, measured in seconds or less. It depends on infrastructure rather than analysis, and it is not what a retail prop account is built for.
- [Round turn](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/round-turn) - One complete trade - the entry and the exit together. Commission quoted per side has to be doubled to get the round-turn cost, which is the only figure worth comparing between firms.
- [Prohibited trading](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/prohibited-trading) - Activity a firm bans because it targets the trading environment rather than the market. It covers exploiting errors and pricing delays, coordinated trading between accounts, and third-party account management.

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