Is FX the most manipulated market ?

[speres]

http://www.articlesbase.com/currency-trading-articles/forex-market-structure-653483.html

 

[achilles28]

Quote from Jerry030:

No, I didn't say the market was random.

Try rereading the post a few words at a time or get soemone who is a native English speaker to translate for you.

I asked how the Forex market is manipulated? By the Masons, the Jews, by some secret cabal? Who actually does it? How do they make it happen?

Do they manipulate all trades or just for people who post on ET?

It wasn't funny the first time. Why would it be the second? Maybe try a third.

Like I said, you don't get it. That's why you fail. Sorry bud. No conspiracy there. You just haven't figured it out.

 

[speres]

Quote from trade2live:

In Market Wizards, Bill Lispchutz , the sultan of currencies is quoted as saying FX is all about relationships. That was in the days trading was done over the phone. I understand trading is still done that way for some type of trades for ex. between institutions and corporate treasuries. So my thinking is it must be
easy for bank market makers to exchange infos on transactions between themselves and with big customers and then collude to move prices a certain way. Has the FX market ever been investigated by regulators ?

As a FX trader I can almost feel the manipulation, , price will almost always go to where the maximum pain for traders is , just before reverting. I am convinced FX is manipulated at least in some ways, but what I don't understand is since it's mostly electronic nowadays , the manipulation should be on the decline, but it seems to be the opposite, in more than 5 years of FX trading, the B.S. has become the rule rather than an occasional occurence.
One explanation could be that one channel of info used by manipulators ( relationships) was replaced by another , dealers some of them control a large portion of retail trading know the stop orders and may be able to exploit them. Some firms , for ex. Dukascopy even seem to have developed programs that trade prop funds to take advantage of that kind of info (their managed account info used to state if I am not mistaken that they were able to take advantage of their position to achieve their returns) .

To me it seems that the door is open for the most egregious manipulations by those processing orders.

Everybody I guess would agree that B.S. is now a daily phenomenon, but would people with institutional experience agree that the B.S. moves are mostly engineered rather than the consequence of too many players chasing the same opportunities ?

Maybe your just beginning to notice the bs more and more... which is a natural development when ur observing the flow of price. Do you think the interbank dealers and mm's dont have a clue where all the supp res sellers and buyers are for ex ?where the stops are positioned? Its their job to know, hell I can tell by just looking at a price chart, you can see them in the price action.. make no mistake the levels are swept..

 

[achilles28]

Quote from speres:

Maybe your just beginning to notice the bs more and more... which is a natural development when ur observing the flow of price. Do you think the interbank dealers and mm's dont have a clue where all the supp res sellers and buyers are for ex ?where the stops are positioned? Its their job to know, hell I can tell by just looking at a price chart, you can see them in the price action.. make no mistake the levels are swept..

And I thought I was the only one

 

[Martinghoul]

The FX mkt is about as manipulated as most other liquid mkts... All comes down to your definition of manipulation, I suppose.

 

[achilles28]

Quote from Martinghoul:

The FX mkt is about as manipulated as most other liquid mkts... All comes down to your definition of manipulation, I suppose.

Where have you been ?

 

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[Martinghoul]

Quote from achilles28:
Where have you been ?

Impersonating Paul the Octopus in another thread ...

 

[Kassz007]

Quote from achilles28:

You don't get it. Evidently most people don't, which is why it works.

You're obviously a newb, too. Probably got less than 2 years experience. You've got a lot to learn, grasshopper. You actually think the markets are RANDOM?!?!

Good luck.

You have no idea what you're talking about.