Triangular arbitrage involves placing offsetting transactions in three currencies to exploit a market inefficiency for a theoretical risk free trade. In the forex market, which is a very efficient market, there is substantial execution risk for retail traders. However, crypto markets are far less efficient and we can profit from it using triangular arbitrage.
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Since the recent wartime tensions between Russia and the west are unlikely to subside, it is safe to assume that oil and gas prices won’t decrease anytime soon. What can we ascertain from the Gold to Natural Gas ratio and the Gold to Oil ratio?
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For the first time in human history, a group of governments and private companies have effectively seized the foreign currency reserve assets of a sovereign central bank. Russia has learnt, the very hard way, that only gold is money and everything else is credit. The sanctions for now do not apply to energy exports, but for how long?
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Calculating triangular arbitrage lot size for a perfectly hedged triangular arbitrage ring is straightforward once you understand the simple math behind the prices. To get started you need three related pairs that form a ring or triangle, and simultaneous prices from those three pairs.
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Triangular arbitrage opportunities can be easily identified using bid and ask quotes. In this article I describe formulas for computing triangular arbitrage using bid and ask quotes. It is worth noting that the triangular arbitrage computation using bid and ask prices is a bit more complex than simply using close prices.
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Triangular arbitrage involves placing offsetting transactions in three forex currencies to exploit a market inefficiency for a theoretical risk free trade. In practice, there is substantial execution risk in employing a triangular arbitrage or tri arb strategy which may make it difficult to profit for retail traders. However, a knowledge of triangular arbitrage mechanics can enable forex traders to understand better how market prices self-regulate.
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Multi-currency mean reversion is one of the safest entry strategies available to forex traders. It has a simple definition, can be traded visually and it works very well, provided you are trading correlated currency pairs.
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Multi-currency mean reversion, also known as statistical arbitrage, is one of the safest entry strategies available to forex traders. It has a simple definition, can be traded visually by anyone and it works very well, provided you are trading correlated currency pairs. In this post, I’ll share how I use two simple indicators to find profitable mean reversion trades, at almost no risk and without going into the mathematics of it.
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Learn why the futures market is not a valid price discovery mechanism for Gold and Silver and what is likely to happen in the future.
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The world discovers the price of commodities via the futures market, where different commodities can be bought and sold almost 24 hours a day. Each transaction represents a contract, at the end of which, the underlying commodity has to be physically delivered or settled in cash. This price discovery mechanism makes complete sense to find the market value of commodities, but utterly fails for Gold and Silver.
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Learn how to implement alerts on custom MT4 Indicators coded in the MQL4 language.
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Today I am going to teach you how to implement alerts in your custom indicators. To do so, we’ll further ellaborate on top of our previously coded Custom Indicator 102. The resulting code will serve as a template for a filtered signals indicator with alerts.
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Learn to code native indicator filters such as MACD and RSI into your mql4 indicators for Metatrader4 (MT4).
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Today I am going to teach you how to implement native indicator filters via iCustom() in MQL4. To do so, we’ll further ellaborate on top of our previously coded Custom Indicator 101. The resulting code will serve as a template for your future custom indicators.
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