5 min faster? Maybe 5 millisecond faster. It's extremely easy to detect arbitrage. You just do a simple correlation analysis between the time your feed was out of out of sync with the times that the trader suspected of arbitrage traded. You'll find ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

Oanda was talking about the general market, not about their platform. Anyway, I was curious if you could give some examples of market moving trades that you had executed, so that we can have an idea of the general impact. Because there are some ...

Is anyone here an institutional trader?

Skenobi, can you give some market moving examples? For example Oanda is on record saying that a 250 mil order on EUR/USD will move it around 50 pips (of course, depends on time of day), and the chief FX dealer of an Australian bank told about a 800 ...

Is anyone here an institutional trader?

I was not referring to you. And you are right, my broker has a clause in the contract which forbids arbitrage with them. If you do it, they are allowed to revert the trades. It's not possible to do arbitrage on retail platforms. If you want to do ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

Interesting. Here are the tick counts for my live FXCM and Dukascopy feeds for a low and for a high volatility day from last week: FXCM 2014-06-03 =============== EURUSD 23,267 GBPJPY 33,207 USDJPY 22,181 XAUUSD 18,000 FXCM 2014-06-05 ...

Does anyone have any experience with Dukascopy?

Yes, if you find a statistical bias in the market and you exploit it, it's not fair. You're not supposed to have an edge. You're not supposed to exploit the market. You're cheating!!! You're making money!!! A real trader would trade all the markets, ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

Why is it so hard to believe that I trade manually? I am working on an HFT system. But it's not done yet. I believe HFT are the superior form of trading. BUT I AM TRADING MANUALLY ON THIS ACCOUNT Anyway, since you believe I'm a lier and a deceiver, ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

99% of people don't understand how a computer is made. Does this mean that the guys making the computer don't? Or that the computer is not real? But you're right, I'm not a common retail trader - I'm a profitable one. Which is one of the most ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

You have to know what the victims do to avoid doing the same thing. And there is some intelligent life here.

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

You're so funny. Do you actually believe that the whole trading world revolves around trend lines, fibos, PA and technical analysis? Do you really think that this is how HFT and hedge funds trade? These papers teach you how to think in new ways, ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

Here's an actual arbitrage that I've done a few years back, one Sunday evening when the markets had just opened. Bought EUR/USD from Tradeville (big blue boxes) at 1.3794 and at the same time sold EUR/USD at Oanda (gray in the background) at 1.3812. ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

Also known as "not having a position". TranceTrader is right, everything is there on google. I wasn't born knowing about delta hedging or gamma scalping. But I had a desire to learn. And when you know that 90% of retail traders are losers, do you ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

I see that you've made up your mind that I'm hedging and/or arbitraging. I can't prove a negative, I can't prove that I don't have other accounts in which I take the opposite side trades. The statistics of this account clearly prove that it's not ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

I consider it acceptable. My system is not perfect yet. It's still a manual system. It's still way to low frequency. Now I'm heavily into doing statistics for binary options trading. I know that the general opinion is that they are not "real ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

I wish I was that good. I was not talking about me, but about HFT firm Virtu - url Justin, to understand why I only take longs on EUR/CHF you need to understand the history of this pair in the last 3 years. It's a heavily manipulated pair (by ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

Ha ha, so naive. If it's an arbitrage ea, why is the average trade duration 2 days and average trade length 14 pips? Anyway, you say "arbitrage" and "no risk trading" as they are bad things. You actually want to risk when you trading instead of ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

No, it's just regular scalping. You lol all you want, while I have yet another $10K profit month. This is another really big mistake that retail traders make: instead of finding a trading instrument or situation where all the stars are aligned in ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

When I say "hedging" I mean this stupid trading in the opposite direction that retail forex traders do. This is not real hedging, as understood by a finance professional. They would laugh two days at you if you told them that you "hedge" by putting ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

The information is out there. On these forums, on wikipedia, in books, in academic papers. Real information: hedging is worse than not hedging because you pay extra spreads. Now see how this real information as you called it is ignored. BTW, this is ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?

@Trance, real "hedging", for example delta hedging, is so way over the head of retail traders.... If they can't understand the simple concept of a flat position, what chance is there for them to understand delta, covariance matrices, dispersion or ...

Why is hedging not discussed as much?