How to figure out if its corporate flow or leveraged accounts? Does price behave differently? How much volumes your trade desk do on average a day? Is it gradually distributed during the day?

@Jacob and skenobi, well, you both excluded other, which is not by rules , discretionary, is other substantial contributor to the budget? @skenobi Was the size of your bonus dependant on your performance, if yes, how?

@ institutional traders (poll ) Guys we know already from information you posted on this forum that majority of your budgets in the banks were made making market and some portion was prop trading. The question now is how much was real prop trading ...

You should have typed B instead of K, and change forex trend...

@Ck87, dude its a forex forum, you suggest people read Jessie Livermoore methods, they just do not work on forex mate. Forex is a very choppy market, more often than not, and often times it is not reasonable to hold position for too long, you better ...

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Whats your edge?

Hmm, sounds romantic . Looks like Forexfactory hired you to consult us in here ps no offence skenobi, you are doing a great job!

Well, I am yet to see a guy who makes a good living from trading. Something in the vicinity of 20-30% a year it is not a skill IMHO (for retail), although I must admit, even these money is not bad given that majority f^ck*ng lose. ps what do you do ...

I see it this way, there are millions of retail traders around the world, letting big boys know where my stop loss is not a big deal to me, for I bet there are gonna be another few thousands of them around this level. Actually with some brokers you ...

And what is fundamental difference between hard stops and mental stops. ps from POV of banking trader it is clear, but now being retail guy I think it is not smart to say the least. Good luck executing your mental stop when platform goes off

I agree that you disagree that retail will set the trend in forex, that would be absolutely insane to even think of, I do not know what post made you believe that I am insane enoght to even think of it. I guess majority can not beat creator of the ...

that makes sense that does not make sense, they both will lose with such a leverage on forex.

I meant retail brokers as well. With retail leverage they do not need to move market substantially. There is not much point for interdealer brokers to move market against hedge funds and corporate clients who use tiny (compared to retail) leverage. ...

actually 29 billion USD, IB is not solely forex broker though... url

Thats absolutly illogical. You stated banks (you including) run clients' stops, what makes you believe brokers are different from the banks? Well, they might not be as big, and their clients have less cash, but it does not make them saint. And I ...

@ institutional traders Have you ever had to protect option barriers? How does it look like? Say, you have 500 mil USD option barrier to protect, does it mean bank will spend whatever amount of money up to 500 mil USD (paying spread, notional amount ...

not always, lehman lost

Skenobi can you be more specific?