Talk:Mirror trading

Expert
I am a PhD in economics and will attempt to rectify the confusion on this article. Please feel free to make suggestions for how my changes can be improved.CastlereaghQC (talk) 19:50, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Need a better source
I am of the opinion here, that the difference between mirror trading and program trading is rather unclear. Also any further citations maybe from academic sources would be useful.

Is mirror trading not applicable over other financial assets, rather than only FX markets, as it seemed to be implied in this article at present.

There are two very different types of mirror trading
The "mirror trading" referred to in this article is an illegal money-laundering kind: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-deutsche-mirrortrade-probe-idUSKBN15E2SP But the mirror trading referred to on this wiki page so far seems pretty harmless. Both types should be explained... FunnyDrink (talk) 10:47, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Article entirely unclear
It appears I'm echoing the sentiments of the item above.

The problems begin immediately, in the article lead.

The mirror trading method allows traders in financial markets to select a trading strategy and to automatically "mirror" the trades executed by the selected strategies in the trader's brokerage account.

Real life mirrors have a property of inverting the image along the Z-axis (our approximate bilateral symmetry causes us to perceive this as left-right reversal).

And this is not the worst of it. Symmetry transformations can become extremely non-intuitive: see plate trick.

So explaining "mirror trades" by saying that they "automatically mirror a chosen strategy" adds precisely nothing, except the word "automatically", which presumably is less than entirely "automatic" unless the trading operation has never heard of Black Monday (1987).

This article stands in need of serious work.

Note the the article on Deutsche Bank describes their Russian fiasco as involving tainted mirror trades. Showing up here, having come from there, provides precious little illumination. &mdash; MaxEnt 17:58, 29 August 2017 (UTC)