The Relationship Between Forex Pip and Your Trading Profit
The world currency markets have been trading sideways as everyone is waiting for the Fed's Open Market Committee meeting this week. What does that mean for you? Nothing...almost. Let me explain. The Fed in all of its wisdom is charged with regulating the banking industry. They set the interest rates that allow banks to borrow from one another, they determine how much money is available to the market, they help to control inflation.
An example of a perfect hedge is when you buy and sell the same currency. No matter which way the currency moves you will not make a loss. The problem however is that you will also not make a profit either. Perfect hedges are used in the place of stops when the trader needs some "time out" to reassess a deal. There are advanced forex techniques such as the well known and generally used no stop, hedged, grid system that allows traders to make money buying and selling the same currency all the time due to the currencies habit of revisiting the same price level over an over again.
Another form of a perfect hedge is to use multiple currencies. An example of this is currency relationships that exists between the EURUSD, USDJPY and EURJPY. If you buy the EURUSD and the USDJPY and buy the EURJPY you again create a perfect hedge because no matter which way the EURUSD and the USDJPY move the result will be reflected in the price of the EURJPY. Although you again cannot profit from this, there are traders who that advantage of this in the following way:- when both the EURUSD and the USDJPY are trading in the same direction the movement of the EURJPY is turbo charged and it moves at the total of the EURUSD and USDJPY movement. This extra volatility and direction certainty gives traders of the EURJPY a trading advantage which they capitalise on.
The perfect setup will be to buy currency at its down price, and then sell it when it has attained to its highest level of value, before it declines again. But to get the right timing is always difficult. There are a lot of various factors that decide the raising and declining of the currency values, and the use of automated trading robots helps to sum up the messy information, and makes people to capture that right moment in a mathematical way.
Other examples of partial hedging in US dollar dominated markets are currency families. US dollar dominated markets are where the weakness or strength of the US dollar is driving related currency prices. Currency families such as EURUSD, GBPUSD, and AUDUSD will all move in the same way - they will all go up or they will all go down. The currency family of USDCHF, USDJPY, and USDCAD will act in the same way. These reasonably predictable family relationships create hedging and straddling opportunities for experienced and skilled traders especially when combined with currency relative strength measurements.
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