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The Sacred Edge

Thank you UP for pushing me in the right direction. I can now successfully: 1. Understand dealer counterparty risk and trade it. 2. Identify/create correlated/synthetic instruments and arbitrage the divergence. I posted this just to give back to ...

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VWAP...First nugget! Keep talking. I'm listening. And learning. You are confirming my thoughts and findings so far.

Forex Dream Chasers - The 90% rule of randomness

Why you call it trading currency when in fact we are trading CFDs on currency? And how can it be DIRECT access to THE MONEY with a leveraged derived Product? If you manage to describe in the deepest detail how your brokerage bussiness works maybe we ...

Brokers, put the fish on the table!

The Naija number...FourOneNine...lol

Still Basketting

I read this post years ago. It didn't make sense to me then. Now it makes SOOOO much sense. A lot of posts on FF by a number of people which made no sense to me before July 2014 now make so much sense. Your post about the market being so random ...

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Unhedged liquidity provided by the banks will almost always see price revert back to the mean/value where the dealers supplied the initial liquidity right? SO, if price moves up 100pips and then comes back down 100 pips, the dealers net exposure is ...

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You grew $100 to $100,000...amazing! I would love to learn a thing or two from you. I saw your post on Value vs Price. Where do banks/dealers offset counterparty risk? Can I use 10 & 2 yr Tnotes and US Bonds and German 2yr bonds to offset EUR risk? ...

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I thought most hedge funds are quantitative or HFT. What sort of returns are typical for currency only hedge funds?

Trading risk - what about hedge funds?

Its a zone, a region, not necessarily an exact price. Depending on your broker/spreads/internet speed/etc. Also, note that it must not always be a return. It can be a RBR, not necessarily RBD or vice versa. I tried this method...and it worked well. ...

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Very impressive!

Currency index trading experience

What percentage of your account do you use per trade? And how much do you lose per trade? Cos you go for small pips but big returns...what's a typical stop loss in pips? 10pips, 20pips, 30? Thanks

Currency index trading experience

How did you benefit from it? How did you trade the fakeness? Is market still fake right now, 45 minutes after your post?

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Offloading and jumping in is a better description than 'returning'. IMHO. They are not always returning. However, they are always jumping (compressing) in.

Counter-trend trading

Fantastic post MM. UPs posts and EURUSDD's posts opened my eyes. I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw the connection. Dissimilarity shows you from a technical perspective what is happening, but UPs posts show you why and how it is happening from a ...

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From the highlighted post, it seems you use the dissimilarity between the indicator below and the price action above to get true value. That's fine. I have explored that approach. It has great potential, if one can get tight stops. But if I could ...

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Nugget.

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Nugget.

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So, is the insight still working? Would you mind sharing a few pointers please...thanks.

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