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Realistic sizing in dollars on a per contract basis for a scalping strategy?

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Jul 21, 2026 · 19:29

I am looking to understand what the maximum $ amounts people have been able to do when scalping option contracts. I am not looking to do scalping, but knowing how much you could expect to reasonably buy and sell of the same contract is helpful.

Could one reasonably be able to purchase $1 million of the same MSFT contract and then sell it for a 40% gain shortly after? For less liquid names, what is their maximum?

Then hypothetically speaking, let’s say someone where to be a super degenerate and have a lucky streak. If they did a $1 million dollar scalping strategy on googl options every single day and each day made profit a 50% at what point would market makers notice? If $1 million is too small then what amount wouldn’t be?

For a very illiquid name. A non meme random company with a $2 billion market cap. Would you be able to d$10k? About $50k?

And no i am not planning on doing a scalping strategy. I am more interested in how much money you could expect to buy and sell in options before you started facing limits. Want to know how that looks