Understanding spreads in Trading

With cryptocurrencies

Keno Leon
5 min readMar 2, 2018

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One of my first jobs in finance was at a trading desk as a glorified assistant, besides a myriad of odd jobs I sometimes had to prepare charts for the chief trader, on one such occasion he asked me to chart a couple of price series and told me that the spread had flipped, obviously some sort of trading signal. I nodded enthusiastically but really had little idea what…

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