What makes a pip to move ?

Hi everybody. I´m a forex trader for more than one year now. I follow this site since 2007, but just now i realized that i can ask for help here, in the forums. And off course, i can give a hand too ...

So let´s get to the point, to my first post.

Me and my friends (another traders from Brazil), eventually meet each others to make some brainstorms about strategy's, technical analyses, fundamental analyses, systems, etc.

One night we came to this question : What, exactly, could make a pip to move? We are not talking about "big" moves like 1.2450 to 1.2550, we are talking about 1.2450 to 1.2451, for instance. Just one pip ... what kind of force could make it to move? I have an idea (like offer and demand ...) but i don´t have a very clearly understanding of this yet.

I´m really sorry if this question is just too stupid, it´s look like so simple and obvious ... but when we get deep and try to explain in details to somebody else, especially somebody outside of the business, it turns into a mess and a lot of possibilities shows up.

Any kind of help are welcome. Thanks !

Matter and anti-matter. It's everywhere.

Depends on time of the day.
During low volume times it might be easier to
push price around. As a retail trader you have no influence
on price anyway because you are trading against your broker.

Exactly Tjpld, we, retail traders, can´t move pips because we don´t trade directly on the market, our orders are filtered by our brokers. So who are the players behind the movements, specially, little movements, like one or two pips ? The market moves every second of the day ... it´s cant be only the big banks making the market and it´s not us, the traders ... so what ?

There's not a unique response, nor secure.
There are some theories, and models , look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_rates.

Lubo.

IT S MEEE ...

A bucket. A wee, tiny bucket...maybe only half full.

Hum .. a leak of imagination here ... c´mon guys you can do better ! It´s not a newbie question as it looks ...

But okay ... i wont insist ... i got one good answer searching at the forum, will share with ya ... but it´s not the complete answer yet ...


The point is ... a pip is not MONEY like we usually think, a pip is just a desire ore something like a WISH. I want to pay this , who wants to sell? But when most part of traders look at charts, and see a huge moves, they think that there´s a lot of money behind, and inside themselves they think "the big fishes are putting a lot of money here, i need to get the ride too ..." and them they lose a lot of real money, just because they don´t know what their eyes are showing them.

A pip is not just a lot of money, there´s much more than this behind the scenes ...

Will keep searching for good questions and good answers, any help are welcome. Thanks.

I still think it's a wee tiny bucket.