Possible inefficiency: The rollover strategy Brijon talks about. Too early to tell, but there might be some meat on that bone.

Market Inefficiencies Thread

There is no central forex market, so every feed will be unique. You can open several demo MT4 accounts with various brokers and check them side by side.

How do you compare the quote from your broker to the other markets?

dito that's the scientist in me. There are folks on this forum that talk about trading based on astrology. Introspection. "The chart told me to do it." Give me a break. IMHO, relying on yourself is a recipe for disaster. Check this out: url ...

Trading Psychology is BS

Google "realtime forex charts" and you'll get one....

Forex feeds?

Short answer: hedging doesn't work. Long answer: A while ago, folks were making great money with USDCHF EURUSD hedge on swaps.... Basically the correlation between the two was in favor of the hedge, so folks made swap money PLUS the difference in ...

How does exactly hedging work?

Hey John, wouldn't you agree that trends can reverse without warning? If so, you are never more certain than your last tic....

We're all saying the same thing

And my argument is that any set of rules can be coded into a computer program, and executed WITHOUT psychology. But that would be too rational, wouldn't it? We like to use words like "discretion" and "psychology" to convolute the process. The fact ...

Trading Psychology is BS

Cycles appear in hindsight on charts. Chaos prevails in the future. The problem is, nobody is certain where the tops and bottoms are.

Currency Cycles

A second type of inefficiency is "stop hunting." Basically, you find out where the stops on currencies are based on a news service. When there is a lot of news about a particular stop level, you can watch for those stops to be broken by the banks as ...

Market Inefficiencies Thread

The first inefficiency (and only one that I am aware of) is trading nondealing desk broker spikes. It works like this. Take 10 brokers and compare their feeds. When one travels far away from all the others, take a trade. It's likely that the price ...

Market Inefficiencies Thread

This is in response to trevman's post #8. Could you have called that trend in the beginning? No. Nobody knows what the market will do an hour, day, week, or month from now. If you say you do, and you guess right, you are lucky.

Is the market random or not ?

Fibs and S/R are no reason to trade, IHMO.

Is the market random or not ?

Nah. It's a business like any other. I suppose, IF your money goes through a NDD (not a bucketshop) and actually hits the market, you are technically contributing to the force that pushes a currency up and down. Of course, your forceful impact is as ...

Does forex trading add value to society?

LOL this idea has been posted over 20 times on this forum.

Swap System

Take a few minutes reading posts here, and you'll see that nobody really knows what they are doing. So if you ever actually "learn" forex, let us know.

Is forex the best investment?

Looks random to me. If you can make sense of that, post some live calls and start a following.

Try displaced moving averages, it works!

It might not be random, but what is important is "is it random to you or me?" And without an edge, it is random.

Is the market random or not ?

Well, I didn't say anything about higher timeframes, but they are random as well. It's just that shorter timeframes are more generally more volatile, and you can really see the chaos come out there.

Short Term Trading is Quantum Physics

PS) A martingale hedge is an "always in the market strategy." There is a nice explanation of the strategy by FXTradePro called "FXTradePro - Semi Martingale" with good pictures, though his entry approach is discretionary.

How do you determine when a strategy is valid and profitable?