When is hedging considered as scalping?

While defining scalping as opening and closing a position in a short time, hedging or locking the other position with the same volume in a short period is also considered scalping.

In other words, when you open a buy position and in a few seconds or minutes you open a sell position with the same volume, it means that you closed your first position using the second one, so it will be scalp too.

Considering that hedging in one account is allowed, make sure that you open the second position at least 7 minutes after the first one.

In other words, hedging is considered scalping when you open the second trade less than 7 minutes after opening the first one. In fact, by opening the opposite trade in less than 7 minutes, you are closing the first trade in less than 7 minutes, which is scalping.

MT5 is a good example that does not allow you to do this action either.