Yes agree find the LDN close not as relevant for EURUSD as for GBPUSD. But watch the volume cycles and look for where they took price during the low volume and where previous volume nodes areas on market profile for a targets unless these areas have ...

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If you can see where value is you will have a good idea of what the institutions are up to. Looking at it from a technical point of view you can see from market profile below what price is bullish. Price goes up in the low vol Asian period. When ...

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The institutions trade the news before it comes out depending on what their forecasts are and what the previous numbers where. By the time it actually comes out they have completed their trades, that is why there is only a small spike after the ...

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I do know. Worked 15 years in them. If you came into a meeting and management asked why you went long at a certain price and your answer was 'oh it was the 61.8% fib retracement level' you would be fired on the spot. Think about it , its a ...

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Institutions do not use Fibonacci ratios, thats whats wrong with them

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Note - Hedging is not buying or selling the same instrument once you are in a loss. EG You buy EURUSD and it goes against you so you sell EURUSD and keep your original position on your books. This is not hedging. This is locking in your loss and ...

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An example of hedging with a correlated market. The blue line is highly correlated to EU. At the first red arrow there is a nice divergence between the two markets so you sell EU and buy the blue line. The come together making it a double alpha. You ...

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Two ways to hedge. Either buy options, where your cost is the premium and that is the limit of your loss (in other words an insurance policy) Or you buy / sell a correlated market where the two markets have diverged. The expectation is that the ...

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Ransquawk You can get a free version through FXPro. You just need a demo account. However it is 10 seconds delayed.

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There are many different types of institutional traders. Active day traders, 2 tick scalpers (yes you do get scalpers in the institutional space) , long term pension fund investors, traders who do not even look at charts and just use neural ...

5 years and still no strategy

Institutional traders have targets they need to meet each day in terms of profits. When they enter a trade they will have a profit target that they will aim for. You can use the Fib tool to measure where this target is going to be and where profit ...

5 years and still no strategy

Quite strong Risk On sentiment in the market today. The EUR will struggle in this environment even though its bullish. Huge option barrier in at 1.3000 (1.285 spot)

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They could not resist going for that liquidity.

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Euro will really struggle to get past 1.1250 (1.1235 on the Spot) . See the options barrier below. My models indicate value is below at 1.110. If they manage to manipulate price up to 1.1235 to get the liquidity then get short with the rest of the ...

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This is what I was saying in my earlier post. If you read and truly grasp the principles in this post you will be understand the market and why price moves and why volume is important to its behaviour. I highly encourage you to read and reread the ...

5 years and still no strategy

Here is an example of price manipulation and why volume analysis can give you miss reads if its done out of context and without cumulative delta to help. image Yellow box the MM are in control of this market. Ranging between two points. Its now ...

5 years and still no strategy

Those little blue boxes are automatically drawn and highlight the highest volume area in a bar.

5 years and still no strategy

Hey VEEFX As we are dealing with an Auction type market where price is dictated by the laws of supply and demand, volume is essential to understanding what the participants are doing in the market. Whilest I agree with you volume is definitely not ...

5 years and still no strategy