dave, im very disapointed to see that you are one of these guys who thinks God is on fox's side the only way i will watch is if they have an anchor as hot as liz claman LOL

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yeah well that "lag" is why arb guys are in business. and they do a very good job of keeping prices in line. punch in some prices at any given time, the equations will be true 99.99% of the time.

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these are the type of mechanical systems that actually work. when you hear about guys making big money with mecahnical systems, this is the sort of stuff they are doing. mostly it is "risk-arb", which is of course arbitrage with a little bit of risk ...

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give me an example of one you want to do and i will bring you through it. aha yes, thats the answer. i was saying "thats just the way it is", but your right, this is the specific reason. i love the TR

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oh yeah, those opportunities were gone like 100 years ago LOL but they still appear during news releases. thats why i tried to capitalize on those times. and like i said, i had some success but im not trading it anymore if that tells ya anything.

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every currency equation there is can be re-written in terms of ANY currency. USD, NZD, EUR, it doesnt matter which it is, the equations work just the same.

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hmm, i dont think its that complicated. all a broker needs is a few equations to tell where the market should be for each pair. for instance, lets say the broker has the following equations displayed in realtime (with real prices)... GBP/JPY = ...

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yeah synthetic crosses are a whole other subject, and quite complex. but unless you have some crazy strategy, who needs em

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there are robots that keep all this stuff in line. those 6 equations, and many others, must always hold true. if the equations are NOT true (as happens when news is released) then the robot traders jump on it, buying/selling the appropriate pair. if ...

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i believe that is done arbitrarily because the dollar is such an important currency.

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the market sets the price via arbitrage: but the broker knows where to make his market via the exact formula i just gave. currency pairs are exactly like fractions!

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are we talking about the same thing here? NFX listed 6 equations and asked why they work. are you suggesting there is another reason why they work, other than what i have described?

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im simply looking at the prices of the pair. NFX asked why the following equations worked... and the answer i gave him was to show why it worked. lets look at it with real prices. take this one for instance... EUR/CHF = EUR/USD x USD/CHF in price ...

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post count and length of membership do count for trust. and i am saying that as a skeptic who has been a forum admin for four years. you can tell a lot from someones posts, as odd as that may sound. some guys on this forum i trust like family!

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jj, it is FF's policy not to allow slander on the forum. we constantly delete threads that call companies a scam etc etc. read the forum rules, we dont allow positive or negative reviews from new posters. only in very special circumstances do we ...

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huh? we are talking about tri-pair relationships. unless you are just adding an additional insight?

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ah ok. well its really just some simple math. lets take this one for instance.... GBP/CAD = GBP/USD x USD/CAD lets substitute a number for each currency to see how this works. pretend that.... GBP = 10 CAD = 5 USD = 2 so the same equation, with the ...

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after seeing what a scam scum FX Open is (from other thread), i no longer feel the need to be fair with them. this thread is reopened!

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erlan i really feel for you man. not only did your money get stolen, but now you have to waste your time with this crap. sorry you had to go through this man i am appalled and disgusted by the responses of FX Open, they are even using "scam ...

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are you saying you'd like to know why the math works out?

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