A hedged account feels safe because the floating loss stops moving. Meanwhile both legs quietly pay negative swap every night, and on gold the bill runs into hundreds a month. Here's the maths.
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A same-size hedge stops your loss from growing. It also stops everything else, while swap and spread quietly bill you for the privilege. Here's how locks happen, what they cost, and how to get out.
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A stop loss ends a bad trade. A hedge preserves it, rents it a room, and feeds it swaps every night. Here's the maths on both, and the rule we actually use.
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Zone recovery promises to turn any losing trade into a winner without a stop loss. The maths says otherwise. Here is the full lot-sizing arithmetic, a worked failure, and the one market condition that kills it.
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