Interested in ideas regarding hedging forex positions

paulchaney said:
Can be done, but you need to be watching two different pairs in order to get around technical restraints and take advantage of arbitrage. Even then, gains are going to be extremely small in the tenths to hundreds of a percent when watching a 24hr period. Most likely you'd be manually trading this and could only watch two pair combos (to not have cross pair interference), so this would leave you having to essentially have only 1 "position" on at a time and even then this might only set up 1 out of 5 opportunities.
But yeah, totally possible and doable.
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If you're talking about triangle arbitrage, fat chance! No way no how a retail trader working manually is ever gonna make that happen.
 
Sig said:
If you're talking about triangle arbitrage, fat chance! No way no how a retail trader working manually is ever gonna make that happen.
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Sig hello!
Whoa, whoa. Slow down, you just established we don't even know if we're talking about the same thing.
I can guarantee you, what I am thinking in my head has and can be done. I left out a lot of information, I'm not giving anyone a free ride of my expense and time.
Have a good day.
 
paulchaney said:
Sig hello!
Whoa, whoa. Slow down, you just established we don't even know if we're talking about the same thing.
I can guarantee you, what I am thinking in my head has and can be done. I left out a lot of information, I'm not giving anyone a free ride of my expense and time.
Have a good day.
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If there's a risk free arbitrage opportunity, even less than a percent, you'd be a billionaire by now and certainly not here. And someone far more sophisticated than you would have found and exploited it away long before you did. Likely the word "arbitrage" doesn't mean what you think it means.
 
eaglefeather said:
I would be interested if anyone employs a strategy to hedge their forex positions.

It has been expressed to me one way is to have multiple accounts and take a long and short on the same pair.

Anyone will to share ideas?
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One way I can think of is using currency options but they have very low volume comparatively speaking. And you can only use currency futures option which is totally different asset class from Spot.
 
Sig said:
If there's a risk free arbitrage opportunity, even less than a percent, you'd be a billionaire by now and certainly not here. And someone far more sophisticated than you would have found and exploited it away long before you did. Likely the word "arbitrage" doesn't mean what you think it means.
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lol, your statement is filled with many contradiction. Try opening your mind, your refusal to accept something you don't understand as being impossible is probably going to be your down fall.
First, you have no idea how sophisticated I am or am not. Second, at any given time something can be discovered and if you think everything on earth has been discovered in trading, you are incredibly incorrect.
 
Sig, how much money have you lost this week? How much can you afford to lose again and again.
Which emoji better represents you, the sad guy :( or the guy throwing up :vomit:
 
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Found a hedge arb trade, Selling Aud/usd and Usdchf. One might want to wait for spreads to narrow in about 30 to 40 minutes.
Just as an experiment and example, we'll use average prices. 0.7873 and 0.9448
 
paulchaney said:
lol, your statement is filled with many contradiction. Try opening your mind, your refusal to accept something you don't understand as being impossible is probably going to be your down fall.
First, you have no idea how sophisticated I am or am not. Second, at any given time something can be discovered and if you think everything on earth has been discovered in trading, you are incredibly incorrect.
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Your level of sophistication, or lack thereof, is abundantly clear from your posts. There are lots of things I don't know I don't know. The presence of risk free arbitrage opportunities in retail forex that you alone in your brilliance and vast experience discovered isn't one of them.
 
paulchaney said:
Found a hedge arb trade, Selling Aud/usd and Usdchf. One might want to wait for spreads to narrow in about 30 to 40 minutes.
Just as an experiment and example, we'll use average prices. 0.7873 and 0.9448
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Ok, jumping this positon 0.7881 and 0.9446
 
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