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petertrading
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Introduce Yourself Here - Don't Be Shy!!
petertrading replied to trading4life's topic in Beginners Forum
Hi Karthick , a warm welcome..let us all have a healthy discussions -
I am new person to post this forum thread.I really like your forum thread,because i am getting lots of information here.
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Last year, I wrote a book regarding day mercantilism , thus I’m not fully objective. notwithstanding, I trust Hoffman. solely around five-hitter of retail traders create cash as full-time day traders. The likelihood of success is slim. The best recommendation regards hedging, that is otherwise of being varied. you'll hedge with choices (buying puts or calls), or with gold and different commodities, or with bonds. It’s shivery to bet everything on the hope that the market goes in one direction. you would possibly yet game red or black at the game equipment. to guard yourself from the unknowable, hedge (or diversify) your position with different investments. I additionally agree that day mercantilism may be a strategy which will be used throughout extreme market conditions. till the markets get volatile once more, the execs and their high frequency mercantilism ways can create cash. Is day mercantilism dead? No. though true not as common, day mercantilism can perpetually be a valuable strategy.
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Daytraders - Do You Know Your Enemy?
petertrading replied to BlueHorseshoe's topic in Day Trading and Scalping
The first shot shows a pointy come by the worth of associate degree FX combine over the course of 200ms. The sub-pane supposedly shows the order streams of variety of HFTs, measured on the hand axis by distance from this best bid. The pack up shows the decline once more. Notice that four of the order streams move their bid deeper into the order book 60ms before the drop, and another 2 do thus 2ms before, thus on avoid a fill. Quite except the formidably spectacular incontrovertible fact that it's attainable for associate degree algorithmic program to supply associate degree on-line estimation of the standing of another HFT’s orders, there's the apparent ability of the tracked algorithms to spot a value decline before it happens, and to implement a defensive response in milliseconds. What did they see that you simply don’t? may you sight the activity of one participant in a very multitude of orders on a tick by tick basis? If you don’t grasp the mathematics, it'd also be magic. If you’re day-trading, this can be the type of opponent you’re up against on a commonplace. These square measure the capabilities of these WHO might take the opposite aspect of your position. in person i might realize that thought deeply redoubtable . . .