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by Agustin Silvani
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The foreign exchange market presents itself as the great democratizer of finance. Open twenty-four hours a day, accessible from a laptop in any corner of the world, requiring only a few hundred dollars to begin. The marketing promises are seductive: trade the world's largest market, profit from currency movements, escape the nine-to-five grind. The reality, however, is something quite different.
**Author:** Agustin Silvani
**Estimated Reading Time:** 45 minutes
**What You'll Learn:**
- Why the foreign exchange market is structurally rigged against retail traders - How dealers and brokers profit from your losses - The specific tactics used to hunt stops and manipulate prices - How to read price action like a professional - Practical strategies to protect yourself and exploit dealer behavior - Risk management rules that keep you alive in a hostile market
**Who This Book Is For:**
This book is for retail forex traders who suspect the game is stacked against them. It is for anyone who has watched a stop-loss get triggered moments before the market reversed in their favor. It is for traders tired of being told that forex is a level playing field when every instinct tells them otherwise. If you want to understand how the dealer's side operates and how to stop being their prey, this book is your field guide.
The foreign exchange market presents itself as the great democratizer of finance. Open twenty-four hours a day, accessible from a laptop in any corner of the world, requiring only a few hundred dollars to begin. The marketing promises are seductive: trade the world's largest market, profit from currency movements, escape the nine-to-five grind. The reality, however, is something quite different. Agustin Silvani wrote this book because he saw a gap between the glossy promises of retail forex brokers and the brutal experience of the traders who signed up with them. He saw accounts drained not by bad luck or poor timing, but by a system designed to extract money from the uninformed. He saw dealers who were not neutral intermediaries but active adversaries. He saw a market where the rules that protect investors in stocks or futures simply do not exist. The core problem is this: the forex market is an over-the-counter market. There is no central exchange, no consolidated tape, no regulator watching every transaction. When you place a trade with a retail broker, you are not trading in a transparent marketplace. You are trading against the broker itself. Your broker sees your order, your stop-loss, your account balance, and your trading history. And your broker has every incentive to use that information against you. Most retail traders fail. The commonly cited statistic is that around 85 to 90 percent of retail forex traders lose money. Silvani suggests the number of genuinely profitable day traders might be even lower, perhaps 15 percent at best. The brokers know this. Their business model depends on it. Every new account opened is a potential stream of losses to be harvested. Every trader who blows up their account and deposits more money is a repeat customer.…
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Get the complete summary in the appThe forex market is structurally rigged against retail traders. Your broker is likely your counterparty.
Stop-hunting is real. Dealers push prices to trigger your stops and then reverse.
Never risk more than 1 to 2 percent of your account on a single trade.
Use no more than 10:1 leverage. High leverage is a trap.
Place stops at less obvious levels to avoid being targeted.
Technical analysis beats fundamental analysis for short-term forex trading.
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