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newdigital, 2014.02.13 06:36
The “Hedging” Myth (based on dailyfx article)
Helping traders around the world means that I have seen many different methods to trade this market, both good and bad. One of the most damaging methods I’ve come across is the idea of ‘hedging’ a Forex trade by opening an opposing trade in the same currency pair and holding both long and short positions simultaneously. This not only incurs greater trade cost (by paying additional spread) but does not protect your position against additional losses.
Hedgers attempt to lock-in their profit or loss on a trade by opening an
opposing trade, but if the spread widens, this negatively affects both
sides of the trade. If the trader is over leveraged on these trades, a
wider spread could incur a margin call and liquidate both positions.
Worst of all, you would most likely be filled at the widened spread
prices, adding insult to injury.
So now we know, hedging is not the proper way to secure a profit or a
loss. Only the closing of a position can do that. Hedging also can be
dangerous around widening spreads and can cause margin calls, so we need
to limit the amount of leverage we are using to 10x or less.
the ea is giving an error in the compilation and is not releasing the .ex5 file
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Author: Serhii Ivanenko