There are thousands and maybe millions papers, books, articles related to trading the financial markets. Known and unknown authors publish for free or sell all kind of trading strategies, manuals, technical analysis guides, advanced trading models, complicated mathematical algorithms with the purpose to make profit by trading financial instruments. The fundamental truth about trading is
Today will review and compare some betting strategies commonly used in Forex trading as well. It’s important to note in the beginning that these strategies are used when there are two possible outcomes with equal probability of occurrence. Although this is not an absolute requirement, that is most often the case. For sake of simplicity we will also assume that your losses and profits are of equal amounts. Traders are often tempted to apply these techniques in their trading with variable success. Let’s go in detail and compare the numbers.
From mathematical perspective the financial price movements are considered to be a random walk. The price depends on so many factors that it becomes impossible to forecast. The random walk price movement is often explained using a coin flip to determine the next day price. If the result is heads the price goes up, if the result