I'd rather say that the binaries are high speed type of options. They provide you with additional leverage. If you treat the binaries as casion, this leverage can kill your account fast. If you trade binaries like any other financial instrument, ...

Why Binary Forex Options are better than Spot Forex

Barrier activated, buy stops hit, and plenty of liquidity for a good sell off.

FX Barrier Options

The best time for long options strategies is when the realized volatility is larger than the implied volatility.

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I see. I thought you were trading options as individual after you left the bank. As I risk manager I was working with banks' sales dealers and I can imagine what problems you had. The options are much profitable for the bank than the spot because ...

FX Barrier Options

All the knowledge has no value if it is not shared with the others. I don't think that scalping is good for beginners for one simple reason. Scalping is all about discipline and money management. Beginners just don't have the habit to trade strictly ...

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skenobi, why do you think that options trading is stressful? The options provide various opportunities for trading and if you pick carefully you can almost eliminate the stress. I trade volatility and time rather than price. Today is a very good ...

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Today is NFP day and I'm buying plain vanilla strangles. This is usually volatility trade.

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STE @ 200 EMA.

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Tomorrow will be published the US employment report. I suppose most of the traders will be on the sidelines until then. Today I plan to enjoy the nice weather.

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BIS Working Papers No 405: Information Flows in Dark Markets: Dissecting Customer Currency Trades, Lukas Menkho, Lucio Sarnoz, Maik Schmeling, Andreas Schrimp url eurotrash, you are absolutely right about the corporates. They receive USD and ...

Where are big banks buying or selling?

FX brokers show only the orders of their liquidity providers and clients on L2. You are right that "talk of banks sitting here or there is just talk". That is why I said that you must have confirmation form the price action or quotes. I think it is ...

Where are big banks buying or selling?

FX is OTC market and only at the FX desks of the largest banks you can have info about the orders. Only the prop desks of the banks trade for speculatice profit. Customer desks only fill orders of the bank's clients. Sales delaers works with the ...

Where are big banks buying or selling?

Hi dice, You can trade with options any view of the market you have. Regrading the prices it depends. Usually the brokers give you one or more strikes that you can choose from. There are various strikes and expiries and this is no problem. Sometimes ...

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The best way to trader is just to follow the trend. MAs are dynamic trdn lines and this is the reason that they are widely used by the traders. Actuallty the first trading system that I saw 18 years ago was based on 4, 9, 18 MAs. The trick is how to ...

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Long binary call @ 37.99. Strike 1.3680, expiry 08:44:50 London time, payout 100. STE off 200 EMA.

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Trade of the day. STE off 20EMA. Traded with 5-minutes binary call. The same was with GBP/USD

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This is the simplest way, not the best. Delta hedging via spot/futures is more complex and is appropriate for trades lasting at least a few weeks. Also it needs more time and resources.

How FX options can affect spot price heading in to expiration

I agreed that this is not the thread to discuss options trading. I post trades in my thread, where I explain why they were made, etc. Options are complex and if we discuss the topic just theorretically misunderstandings are normal.

How FX options can affect spot price heading in to expiration

Binary options are hedged as spreads. You need to hedge the delta if you want to trade volatility or time. When I trade my STE set up I enter in the direction of the trend after a pullback. This is directional trade and I don't hedge the delta. If I ...

How FX options can affect spot price heading in to expiration

You've joined FF 11 hours ago, which makes me doubtthat you are here to learn something about trading or share experience. This is the best trading forum and please don't try to spoil it. If I'm wrong and you want to learn something, just ask.

How FX options can affect spot price heading in to expiration