You are right. Arbitrage trading is solely the domain of the HFT algos and virtually dont exist anymore especially in the retail space. However I said statistical arbitrage which is something different as explained in my previous post .

EURUSD

Sorry I cannot post that here. Its proprietary information and I have signed an NDA. If you are interested in this institutional style of trading I can pass on the info where you can learn it.

EURUSD

You are right, I just made all that stuff up. For those that are interested there are different market conditions where money flows between certain asset types. If the market is selling one type that money needs to go somewhere else. Generally there ...

EURUSD

Symmetrical market conditions (normal) are either a Bear Steepener or Bull Flattener. The market is usually in one of these two states. Asymmetrical markets conditions are either Bull Steepeners or Bear Flatteners. These markets, as they are ...

EURUSD

In most normal market conditions the EURUSD and Gold will be positively correlated. Two reasons. - Risk On (short EUR, JPY, GC) / Off relationship of low yielding currency pairs and Gold - Gold is priced in USD. So if USD weakens (ie EURUSD goes up) ...

EURUSD

Risk off is positive for the EUR and negative for the USD

EURUSD

What do you mean by flattening? Currently the market is in a strong Bull Flattener / Risk Off . This is positive for the EUR , JPY and GC neg for AUD, USD etc. Systemic risk is on the increase. Have a look at the TED spread

EURUSD

This is correct. Banks very very really buy/sell at the market. If they did , trading the sizes they do they would slip horribly on price and the trader would most probably be fired. Think about what the market maker would do in this situation when ...

Following Banks Strategy

Ian When you sign up you get access to the trading room and all the recorded videos going back to 2015 of class sessions and market briefings. There is however a structured training course you can go through to get an understanding of the core ...

Institutional Equivalent Education?

Ian, something in your posts makes me think you are only slightly sceptical about Ray and I believe you should be considering all the nonsense that goes on in this business. If I had read through this thread I would have also thought it was suspect. ...

Institutional Equivalent Education?

MM's like symmetrical markets (normal distribution on market profile) as they can balance their books and not have a bias or have to go buy hedges. Institutions like asymmetrical markets where there is an imbalance (b or P shape in market profile) ...

Up and under price pattern

Directional is a trending market. Rotational market is a range bound market that is bouncing back and forth between two levels.

Up and under price pattern

The market makers will move the market to where liquidity is because that is how they make money. MM's like to have rotational markets with high volume as they buy and sell into the market with no spreads and dont accumulate positions in any ...

Up and under price pattern

Absolutely, retails traders can succeed. Didnt say the couldnt. Just much harder when you dont know what the wholesale price levels are and if you are dealing from value or not. Thats why retail traders are called retails traders as they buy at ...

Most traders fail because of no discipline!

The reason why retail algos dont work or only work for a short period of time is because they are using the wrong or insufficient inputs. They are all based off lagging indicators and none incorporate models which value the asset. Institutional ...

Most traders fail because of no discipline!

This pattern is a very good trade setup. It becomes far more reliable if you use volume and cumulative deltas to analyse the price action. Its important to understand whether the new high or low formed is due to a withdrawal of liquidity and not ...

Up and under price pattern

Awesome pics. Great size. Look thick. Solid. Tight. Keep us all posted on your continued progress with any new progress pics or vid clips. Show us what you got man. Wanna see how freakin' huge, solid, thick and tight you can get. Thanks for the ...

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