Disliked{quote} Thanks for taking the time to reply, but you haven't really refuted the points I made. There's no point in my repeating them, so I'll simply move on.Ignored
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Disliked{quote} Thanks for taking the time to reply, but you haven't really refuted the points I made. There's no point in my repeating them, so I'll simply move on.Ignored
Disliked{quote} Sorry, but I'm not convinced. Institutional traders tend to hedge by buying put/call options and/or using correlated instruments. If you're "hedging" in the same instrument, then while hedged you're effectively paying spread and swap differential on two positions when you could be cost free by simply staying out of the market. Then when you close one side of the hedge, leaving yourself either net long or short, that's just the same as opening a long or short position. Hence this type of "hedging" is not a strategy, because (like I said in...Ignored
Disliked{quote} Sample Hedging Recovery: If a client has wrongly opened a BUY 2.0 lots EURUSD trade which nows puts his/her account in danger, we set our robots to pursue hedging SELL trades ( timed mostly from M1) till account equity = balance. In this process, we will instruct our robots to either SELL equivalent 0.1 lots * 20 trades, or 0.01 lot * 200 trades at any point, depending on market conditions. Whenever a SELL trend is strong, our robots will hedge the account till full recovery.Ignored
Disliked{quote} Outright fraud of an other snake oil seller..... if it would work, which is easy to see it doesn't, you wouldn't lurk around in retailer forum fishing for new victims. Your trick will be to more or less hedge the full position but you won't net those. Then you bunker profits on the rollover costs each day to give your customer account a death by 1000 cuts. Risk free for you, a sure loss for your customer. In some cases you will have luck and are able to recover an account. These cases will be used to lure in additional victims.....and those...Ignored