What is Toxic FX Flow?
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 3:10 pm
This article was written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets
Technology is certainly at the heart of the FX business, and nowadays it has a role to play in dictating the rules of the game. The term ‘toxic FX flow’ often has a direct relationship to the technology behind the liquidity.
What is toxic flow in FX anyway? There is really no simple answer to this question. Toxic flow can take many forms. It can be the trading on invalid market rates, the trading on the inefficiencies of non-sophisticated FX technology or trading in the same direction, across ... (read more)