Since demo start attached. The demo is only counter retail, so there's gonna be a general counter-trend in this, the edge will be laying in between the flows.

Tug of war in market flows

I've unfortunately discovered a calculation mistake in my demo approach. I noticed a disorder in total positions comparing with my trades. Turned out I had an error in excel calculation which led to trading mistakes from my side. This is fixed now. ...

Tug of war in market flows

The demo 'experiment' goes well and in a satisfying profit already. I'll continue trading against retail volume and we'll see how it goes.

Tug of war in market flows

Hello Liarg Thanks! Because the idea of the opposite retail volume is a base of my tug of war method. Also, there's a lot of interest in this in many threads, but nobody yet to prove it in real time. I believe it's a step for people to start ...

Tug of war in market flows

Yes I agree. Also 'traders' nowadays in banks, mostly just execute orders and care for clients.

Trading against the herd

Here is myfxbook demo link: url It reports everything in there and it's a fun little experiment. They update it around each 4h as far as I remember. (It's a random broker and not a recommendation of brokers choice, not good spreads either)

Tug of war in market flows

I've set up a demo trading exactly against my retail volume source. Data from today 10:15 and trading started at 13:15 taking opposite positions from the period 10:15 - 13:15. Then around each hour I've looked at new volume and added opposite. This ...

Tug of war in market flows

Let me also remind you, that the analyzing/comparing with the price and looking at the tug of war, makes this method even better. The first trades I did here so far ended in a 213p profit with 10 profitable trades, 1 breakeven and 1 loss with were ...

Tug of war in market flows

I'm about to set up a demo account to be followed by myfxbook. Here I will try to trade exactly against the raw retail volume. The theory then is, that it only would be a matter of time before it would turn into profit if retail generally loses. If ...

Tug of war in market flows

Ayaaba, It's a percentage summary of the raw retail volume data. That means, for example, if let's say that the GBP is pointing down 50%, then it tells that 50% of all retail positions activity was selling GBP. Which, according to the theory, would ...

Tug of war in market flows

Volume today now: When analyzing the intraday volume, the '8 currencies % matrix' changes fast. I've now uploaded a few real-time situations to give you the idea about how the flows go. I'm thinking about might setting up a demo and let it be ...

Tug of war in market flows

Hi Ill-b-back Ok. I have been researching from these ideas of going against 'the amateurs' and the herd, as well. If believing in the idea of counter trading these parties including backed up by your own past historical positive observations, I ...

Trading against the herd

Hello thisara1 May I refer you to my previous response earlier today to Ayaaba, regarding similar matter.

Tug of war in market flows

This topic is definitely interesting. I'm addressing similar in my thread here on FF. url The low activity in the trades section, however, might not be data-big enough to give a broad overall market overview.

Trading against the herd

Closing this at a 1.0517 at a 44p loss, ending our profit run bringing our total profit down to 213p. No open trades now. I will be focusing on mostly counter retail crowd (regardless) of price next couple of days.

Tug of war in market flows

Volume today so far below:

Tug of war in market flows

Thank you Ayaaba, sounds good. (Since I could not send you a private message, I'll respond here) For now, I started sharing the theory and planning to continue proving it. In regard to indicators, this contains a lot of elements, both raw data, ...

Tug of war in market flows

Last week retail volume attached:

Tug of war in market flows

I will present the data in percentage% of all 8 currencies. Along the way, I'll be updating. Below is attached a screenshot of how it's gonna look (example). This calculation shows retail volume activity and trading the opposite is simple. If this ...

Tug of war in market flows

This coming trading week I will try to back up the previous claim by trading exactly against retail clients, regardless of price. (comparing with price can increase attractiveness and is another level to this method, but first, let me try to prove ...

Tug of war in market flows