I am often asked how to quickly start forex latency arbitrage trading without having a basic understanding of arbitrage trading.  Arbitrage trading is a method of profiting from price discrepancies of the same asset across different markets or platforms. Essential steps to start Forex latency arbitrage trading Key Procedures to Kickstart Your Forex Latency Arbitrage Journey To commence arbitrage trading, you need to undertake the following steps: Education and Research Familiarize yourself with the basics…

What is forex arbitrage and a forex arbitrage bot – Introduction Forex Arbitrage is a trading method to identify and exploit price discrepancies between two or more markets. Forex arbitrage aims to simultaneously buy and sell the same instrument on different markets to profit from the price differences. A forex arbitrage bot or forex arbitrage robot is software or an automated forex arbitrage strategy developed to automatically execute an arbitrage strategy based on the forex…

SharpTrader™ Arbitrage Software is more than just a top-tier platform for arbitrage trading with standard and innovative built-in arbitrage strategies. It also offers a suite of tools for sophisticated, in-depth analysis. In my extensive experience with arbitrage strategies and while providing support assistance, I’ve observed that traders often need to pay more attention to the full capabilities of the software they use, not fully grasping the market structure. In this guide, I aim to elucidate…

Statistical arbitrage, often called “stat arb,” is a popular quantitative trading strategy widely employed by hedge funds and proprietary trading firms. The fundamental concept involves exploiting pricing inefficiencies between related financial instruments. Traders leveraging stat arb rely on complex mathematical models to identify trading opportunities, making this strategy an aspect of algorithmic trading. Origins of Statistical Arbitrage Statistical arbitrage had its roots in the 1980s when it was pioneered by Wall Street’s quantitative analysts, colloquially…

Arbitrage, a term coined from the French word ‘arbitrer’, meaning ‘to judge’, refers to the simultaneous purchase and sale of an asset to profit from price imbalances across different markets. These imbalances arise from supply-demand mismatches, geo-economic variations, and information discrepancies. While all arbitrage strategies aim to capitalize on these price discrepancies, the methods vary substantially. Let’s journey through the arbitrage world, exploring five different types – latency, lock, hedge, triangular, and statistical. Each type…

Forex money management Forex money management refers to the set of rules and guidelines that traders use to manage their trading capital and risk in the forex market. Effective money management is crucial for long-term success in forex trading, as it helps traders to preserve their capital and minimize losses while maximizing profits. Here are some key principles of forex money management: Risk Management: It’s important to manage your risk by setting a stop loss…

Cryptocurrency markets went through a wild ride throughout 2022. There have been many upsets, crashes, and scams that have occurred throughout the year that have literally erased fortunes overnight. It’s been rough on all global markets throughout the year, with many that appear to be ending in the red or breaking even by the end of the year as well. Inflation seems to be finding its limits but not after the cost of raising interest…

Introduction Every trader who uses arbitrage strategies has thought of how to improve their trading results and enhance their strategy. There are many opinions about what affects most of the results of arbitrage trading, but unfortunately, many of them are misconceptions or are of little importance. In this article, I would like to describe my approach to arbitrage trading and those principles which should be put into an arbitrage strategy algorithm. I will also tell…

Introduction  The history of trading in stock markets has changed dramatically since its inception. The first stock exchanges appeared about four hundred years ago. Back then, deals were done verbally, trading rules were just beginning. But the world did not stand still, and, in keeping with the times, stock exchanges took on every possible technical tool that could have been available at the time. Thus, in the mid-19th century, trade applications at some distance from…

The fact that there are so many markets in the world has led to the same Commodities/currencies/metals/cryptocurrencies being traded in many places simultaneously. Distributed bidding is due, for example, to geographical location and time zone differences, or to differences in production/production/production locations. In most cases, due to this variation in trading, the price of the same instrument varies between different trading platforms. If you buy a product at one exchange at one price and sell…

High-Frequency Trading. HFT – High-frequency trading) was first applied to trading in financial markets in 1989. The main advantage of this method of trading is the speed of information processing. It’s no secret that a computer processor can do this in some applications much faster than a human. Not all areas of the processor surpass the human brain, but in trading, in most cases, it happens to be. The main idea for high-frequency trading was…

We will teach you how to evaluate forex robots yourself and you can choose the best robots to trade right now. Forex Robot is a programmed mathematical algorithm for one of the available trading platforms allowing a trader to follow the trading strategy in fully automatic mode without the manual intervention of a trader. Forex robots can maximize profits by analyzing a large number of trading tools at the same time. Forex Robots – How…

We often get questions from users asking us whether lock arbitrage can be used effectively when the broker is offering a welcome bonus. The answer is yes. Let’s look at how it can be done. As the name suggests, a welcome bonus is a financial incentive offered by brokers to get more business. The amount of the bonus varies, but it can occasionally be equal to the full amount of the deposit. While this is…

This article will explore in detail how to trade the news professionally. While there are a number of ways to trade the news, professional news trading involves the use of a fast news feed. Now, what is a fast news feed? This is a service offered by a number of companies that have their own reporters installed in various places tasked with releasing news (e.g., a statistics bureau). These reporters are equipped with special information-processing…

Arbitrage trading involves taking advantage of price differences that crop up in financial markets. Typically, for a number of reasons, the same financial asset might be trading at different prices on different platforms or exchanges. Arbitrage traders scour the markets to trade based on these differences. Until recently, arbitrage trading was limited to traditional financial assets, which meant that arbitrage trading was the preserve of larger players who had considerable resources and the necessary technology.…