We often don’t think about it, let’s try only a second to imagine what happens and what we were able to do with a profitable trade.
Our counterpart is primarily our broker, who on the basis of statistics and algos on our operations chooses whether to keep our order at their desks and cash in the SL, whether to edge or send us to the interbank market if we are consistently profitable.
But on the basis of what do we betray?
We betray a market driven by market makers that work in synergy, live chatting and they continuously exchange info and move in unison, sell n lots to repurchase n ^ 2, sharply stop running and starting with reversal in points decided by them! These market makers are among the richest companies in the world, they cash in millions per semester and have thousands of employees, they have resources that we do not imagine. They have offices in skyscrapers near Wall Street with entire plans of specialized traders with crazy goals and bonuses, as well as coaches and psychologists always available. These traders trade without slippage and requotes and based on what the senior analysts and risk mgmt decided in their usual steering committee and other such things. In these locations there are IT and R&D departments of two three floors where they work among the most brilliant minds in the world, graduates from MIT or Harvard who develop complicated HFT systems to manipulate prices at will and scalp 1-2 ticks H24 with hundreds of lots, all with budgets allocated by millions of euros per year. Let’s remember that they know where all our pending and all our stop losses are and they are very fond of it. On the other hand we are there, dreamers who with a laptop and cell phone or as the most organized with the classic double screen setup with: RSI, Stochastics, SMA intersection, cnbc on TV and microlots, we dive into this red pool!
Well try to think of all this and what you have been able to do after closing a good gain by drinking the well-deserved beer.
