What instruments do you trade, and why?

Diversification is the only free lunch in finance. Trade as many things as your capital will allow, ideally across a diversified group of asset classes.

Picking instruments based on backtested performance is a tricky path to go down, and the statistical evidence doesn't normally support this. Fitting different systems for different instruments is even worse.

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Michael89 said:
Is here also anyone who trade binary options? Or you stand by the opinion that they are not a regular financial instrument?
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Ask yourself why none of the biggest brokers deal with binary options and why binary firms consistently make the news for fraud and international shutdowns.
 
I trade majors and comdolls on Forex. I don't trade exotics, cause EURUSD, GBPUSD and pairs with JPY are the most okay for me
 
I mainly trade options on binary options (binary triplets). Why? Because I think recursion strategies are the only game in town.
 
Michael89 said:
Is here also anyone who trade binary options? Or you stand by the opinion that they are not a regular financial instrument?
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That's a fact, not an opinion, Michael.

Personally, I don't trade them because I look at them as being a bet against a counterparty who makes up the rules and interprets them and holds my deposited funds and presents his customers with a substantial built-in edge which they'd have to overcome very consistently to make profits, and I think that makes them a far worse proposition for me than futures trading, with which the only built-in adverse edge I have to overcome is the tiny dealing costs - and that's an opinion.
 
Xela said:
That's a fact, not an opinion, Michael.

Personally, I don't trade them because I look at them as being a bet against a counterparty who makes up the rules and interprets them and holds my deposited funds and presents his customers with a substantial built-in edge which they'd have to overcome very consistently to make profits, and I think that makes them a far worse proposition for me than futures trading, with which the only built-in adverse edge I have to overcome is the tiny dealing costs - and that's an opinion.
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you'd have better odds in roulette or black jack than binary options, if you spend a lot of money at least the casino will give you complementary services
 
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