What best 3 pairs to trade for volatility/spread/correlation etc

NexusFi · 2015-01-12T04:30:06-05:00

From what your saying about SL I presume you want to trade intra day? Personally I find that real hard going and trading more than one market would be a nightmare (for me). But whenever I have traded intra day I have noticed that end of day correlations with other markets are high, however intra day correlations can often be low. That is, I have seen parts of the day when the stock markets are up, the GBP is down, the USD/CHF is doing its own thing BUT come the close they have all moved in sympathy with each …

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Updated January 12, 2015

What best 3 pairs to trade for volatility/spread/correlation etc

January 12th, 2015, 04:30 AM

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Johno1

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wldman

on usd/cad maybe swissy. Look at oil or gold as well then you can trade the risk on risk off trade. Spu is always fun as well...I only trade euro as that seems enough to focus on but the risk trade is always something to view. DB

I don't trade currencies as a rule, but if you are looking for short term, you might have a look at jpy/usd- gold, hours to days in trade duration.
Cheers John