The foreign exchange market (forex, FX, or currency market) is a global, worldwide-decentralized financial market for trading currencies. Commonly traded instruments include spot, forward, swaps, futures, and options. The FX market is the most liquid financial market in the world. There is no ...
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When calculating CIP between EU and US, which interest rates data to use?
I am wondering which data to use to test the Covered Interest Rate Parity between Europe and the United States. Recap that for the CIP to hold, it should mean that
F/S = (1+r)/(1+r*) where
F = the ...
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How to perform Empirical Mode Decomposition?
I am trying to use the EMD applied to EURUSD open price to train a machine learning algo (RVM).
I have run only once the EMD on my training set and once on the training+test set.
The results on the ...
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Distribution of profit/loss for retail traders in FX
I've heard that 90% of retail investors in FX lose money. I want to analyze this in more detail.
Question: Is there some literature that describes the statistics of profit/loss for retail traders in ...
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Back office processing for FX trades
Can someone provide (or point me to) a summary of back office processing nuances specific to FX trading? For example, I know that there are several FX-specific risks that must be managed. They include ...
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compute time from FX forward, how use DEPO rates?
assume I have following delta-term vol data from broker:
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How to balance two Forex crosses correctly to do a linear regression?
I have two cross and an account in EUR:
EUR/USD
GBP/USD
I would like to do a balanced linear regression using R. With "balanced" I mean that I would like to normalize it by calculating the ...
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EUR/PLN and EUR/USD delta-term-vol surface quoting convension
does anyone know for sure what is the FX market convension to quote delta-term pairs for EUR/PLN, for EUR/USD. I know that for EUR/PLN it should be delta p.a forward, for EUR/USD it should be delta ...
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How to measure if variance is greater at a certain time of day?
I'm not very fluent in the quant vernacular, so perhaps the nature of my question will be better illustrated as a hypothesis.
One market has closed and another market elsewhere on Spaceship Earth is ...
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what is a typical way forex brokerages can provide cheap leverage for their customers?
I'm not very well read in the area of high finance but I'm curious how forex brokerages are able to provide the backing for leverage that they can provide to customers.
Is it possible to do this ...
