How to Successfully Pair Trade
Pair Trading was once called a holy grail of Wall Street. The trading strategy was kept under the wraps for so many years; and in the meantime, profited many small companies to turn into big empires, including Morgan Stanley. The popularity of Pair Trades strategy quickly gained traction among various hedge funds, insurance companies and large banking institutions. With the arrival of internet, the strategy became more accessible to people and is now widely implemented in stocks, indexes, futures, options, as well as forex trading. What is Pairs Trading? Pairs Trading is a less-risky, more....
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ICAP, a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services with more than $1.6 billion in revenue, announced that its Post Trade Risk and Information (“PTRI”) division has successfully carried out a proof-of-technology pilot test using blockchain technology. The ICAP PTRI division plans to use its newly developed proof-of-technology protocol to handle post-trade processing, a process in which the buyer and the seller compare trade details, alter ownership records, transfer securities and cash and approve transactions. The foundation and....
Today's article features a Bitcoin trading advisory published at xbt.social. The currency pair you trade (BTC/USD, BTC/CNY, etc) does not need to be a habit or a consequence of nationality, but a decision you review at least once a year. Bitcoin makes it easy to change your instruments and broker/exchange. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3 hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 discount using the code CCN29. Bitcoin Price Analysis. Time of analysis: 14h00 UTC. Bitfinex 15-Minute Chart. From the analysis pages of xbt.social, earlier....
In an announcement yesterday, Bitstamp has announced that clients can now trade Euros for Dollars, marking the bitcoin exchange’s entry into the biggest traditional currency trading pair in the foreign exchange market. Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp has entered the largest and the most liquid trading market in the world, Forex, by enabling EUR/USD trading for its clients. The foreign exchange market sees over $5 trillion in trading every day, easily dwarfing the likes of the Futures and the Equities market. That’s an average of over $200 billion, every hour. While the forex encompasses all....