PPP versus Market Rates Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a way to compare the cost of living across countries. It's a currency conversion rate that equalizes the purchasing power of different currencies. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb - url url ...

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

aDtr today Volatility levels have increased again. Today, there are 20 out of 28 tradable pairs. If a pair has an ADR/3 value exceeding 99, it is already categorized as less suitable for daily trading, similar to the daily movement of XAU/USD. ...

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

Both of these fortunate trades on AUD/JPY and NZD/JPY saw the price nearly hit the stop loss (SL) but reversed direction quickly, likely due to the price structure, as the curve had become quite concave. Moving the SL to breakeven (BE) after ...

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

EUR/AUD, Price retrace back to the base Entry, Hit BE EUR/NZD, Price near TP then retrace back to the base Entry, Hit BE

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

Fire ▄︻デ══━一 Long EUR/AUD, 1 unit 75 pips (0.5%) Long EUR/NZD, 1 unit 79 pips (0.5%)

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

Both Hit BE 15 minutes before Red News Rest...

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

Fire ▄︻デ══━一 Short AUD/JPY 1 Unit 60 pips (0.5%) Short NZD/JPY 1 unit 49 pips (0.5%)

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

GBP/CAD Playing Stop Hunting, Hit BE USD/JPY OK. Gain +0.5%

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

Entries after London Open: Fire ▄︻デ══━一 Long GBP/CAD 1 unit 51 pips (0.5%) Short USD/JPY 1 unit 58 pips (0.5%)

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

GBP/CAD playing stop hunting. Loss 0.5% EURUSD OK. Gain +0.5%

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

EUR/USD Range 1 Test. Become Convex. Long, Risk 1 Unit 35 pips (0.5%)

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

As slow as watching a land snail crawl.

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

GBP/CAD Range 1 Test. Become Convex. Long, Risk 1 Unit 51 pips (0.5%)

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

Just want to share some info with "newbies": you can scale your trading risk in Gold by checking the contract specifications. For example, in MT4, whether demo or real, right-click on the instrument, then look at the contract size. This way, you can ...

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aDtr 21 Today (10-04-2025) 17 Pairs Wellcome GBP/CHF We can easily observe the increased volatility for 28 pairs daily by monitoring the aDtr pairs above the filter >= 99 pips (criteria suitable for daily trading, as the SL or TP percentage (1 unit) ...

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

Lol, one more pip to TP, then the market went chaotic — reverse polarity! What a mess!

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

And CHF/JPY Go South... Aye!

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

From Prof. Raphael Douady: Surprised by the latest market drop? -10% in just 3 business days since April 1, and that's not an April fool! Well, when doing market statistics as of Apr 1, if you live in a Gaussian world, with a 3-day return standard ...

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

Welcome, bro, go ahead. Yes, the price has been stuck at 172,630 for a long time and still hasn’t been able to break through it. I think it will drop at Range 2 later. I'm just observing, while USD/JPY has been falling continuously—usually, CHF/JPY ...

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb

What are they doing with CHF/JPY? It hasn't gone down for hours, while other JPY pairs have already plunged southwards. This must be the work of a cartel—if it were the Swiss National Bank (SNB), they wouldn’t intervene to this extent. Lol ...

Meditations on Extremistan - Nassim Taleb