There are only two ways, timing of a rare event such as BTC $20k down to $7k but you cannot guarantee when they will happen, usually turn up like busses, these are capital trades. The other is low timeframe trading, but there are very few professional options, let alone retail, this is income trading. Is it possible, yes, one of the small $5mn funds using Tesseract the past quarter booked +300%. If you time it corectly you may also achieve those returns but highly unlikely, the traders are correct, however you cannot say "assuming that", it is all intertwined so the structure of the markets would adjust if one part was changed.
That’s purely market making. I was just referring to former traders joining up together. Institutional traders collude and have access to almost unlimited capital, you are correct that they can and do move markets all over the world. But, without colluding they’d have no control over the market prices. My point is, some traders are actual real traders who don’t need flow, or manipulation to be profitable. When a strategy is discovered that produces profits consistently, no one shares that information. Money is money, and if you share your edge you won’t make money anymore.
"Money is money, and if you share your edge you won’t make money anymore." if the edge is labor intensive and not particular scalable you can explain it but likely nobody will follow it.
Nice try zdreg. He said it multiple times on ET: He made money hand over fist with his method but no he won't hand over his recipe to any anonymous posters on an anonymous internet forum.