Thread: Synthetic Hedging Script, Conforms to new CFTC regulations

For all of you traders looking for a way around the anti hedging rules here is a script for you. It basically works by creating an inverse derivative of what ever position you want to hedge. For example if you want to hedge a long EURUSD position it might SELL EURCHF and BUY USDCHF in proportion to your EURUSD exposure. To use, simply run the script and select the positions that you would like to hedge. Your hedge positions are determined on a...

I loaded this up in NotePad... That's pretty funny. I HEARBY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT KURKA IS A FOREX GENIUS Nice script BTW thanks.

Many thanks Kurka but I am getting a zero divide error on a standard ibfx demo. I had one trade open, a sell of 0.1 lot of EurUsd.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kurka Fund For example if you want to hedge a long EURUSD position it might SELL EURCHF and BUY USDCHF in proportion to your EURUSD exposure. What is the intended use for this? Why not just close the EURUSD position instead of paying two additional spreads plus the swap and unnecessarily use margin? To me this makes just as much sense as // this will work even faster while (equity() > 0){...