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Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Under such circumstances I'm going to make some huge step back to draw fibs from last year july high and follow monthly pivots. Will post some of my charts with lines soon.
Yet I won't comment on current charts and wait for tommorow news. To make it easier to watch I've started to post screens of 30M charts from previous data release. You can see it here:
http://fx-tool.blogspot.com
I'm just starting, but I have aredy posted charts for Pending Home Sales what you may find helpfull for tommorow trading
Thursday, 28 May 2009
For US news I see opportunity to short EU even further, however I'm not sure what impact exactly may be. But there is much more room below it's current price than above.
UJ have some chance for small retracement, but general trend is still up.
It seems there is some local reversals approaching for next couple of days which should drive EURUSD down and USDJPY up. There might be some stagnation visible on GBPUSD pair with small sentiment down, so I'll leave this pair for a while.
This general idea of retracements came to me from observation of 30 min chart. Firstly move on GU and EU was not as firm as it used to be last week [more up-down action during a day] that show some confusion in decision making what should happen now. Another thing is decline of EU as a reaction to the today neutral US Existing Home Sales [only 0.03M deviation].
Al I ca say now is that my attention moved from GU to EU and UJ.
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Monday, 25 May 2009
There is nice free signal service on Forex Peace Army [all you need to do is to register for free]. I will consider trading their triggers today
Friday, 22 May 2009
In terms of Risk/Reward ratio I wouldn't say that it was 1:1. Please keep in mind, that my 100 pips SL was placed in case some accident happened.It's not exactly same thing when you place some SL because method demand it o be paced exactly here or there. R/R factor makes sense when you use automated trading rules. In my recent trades My SL and TP were rather floating and depending on my impression about the market. Therefore if anyone wants to think what is m RR ratio, one should follow all my trades and figure average loss and average profit taken from all trades [there is not enough of them so far to count some reliable averages, but sooner or later there will be more]. I am protecting my position from unexpected loses by placing SL, but those are rarely triggered as I exit position much earlier [usually when I change my opinion about market sentiment]. So here's piece of my thought about trading philosophy.
Now when price will break 1.59 I will start to manage this trade by moving SL somewhere higher.
There is possible scenario from two days ago, that price will go strongly up and then shadow most of that move, so I will possibly be out around 6pm GMT.
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Here it goes total reversion to 1.5515 and then bounce to 1.5600 [exactly as I said 50-70 pips from 1.5545]!
Now it's good moment for final decision. If price will go back to touch the top of last rally I would expect it to rise even further [after a little consolidation around 1.58]. If price won't touch that level I would set sell stop at 1.5510, as this might bring some nice 100 points profit in first run, and might be first sign of trend change.
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
As I have no explanation for this move I've closed all my demo position now. Price have some chance to appreciate more, but in other hand there is plenty of room to shadow this at least partially fake move [this also refer to what I said yesterday about timing].
There is interesting point @ 1.5545 - it's a last swing high before this sweet run up. I have set buy limit there on my demo account as price may bounce for about 50-70 pips from there [it's not a trading advice, whatever you do, you are responsible for it :)]
Finally it's time to change my judges. I shouldn't marry with my opinion about GBPUSD which I was watching closely recently.
I was waiting for price to retrace, as the pair was moving high for too long and too fast to keep up with such a dynamics.
There is still possibility of move back, however this pair must have some nice potential to move even further up. Maybe not on a news, but in general. I think that because of total reduction on last news spike I was writing yesterday.
For today I see great breakout setup on GU and already bought some, however there is a chance for it to be broken downward. There i just more room above 1.55 than below 1.54
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Today Building Permits and Housing Starts Was a great oportunity to short EURUSD and GBPUSD what I did. Another thought I came across today is that there is another factor of succesful trading. Even if I can predict market moves in front of their occurances trigered by news events I still need to estimate how far or how long will move last. I think that more important factor is how long.
My major strategy says that there's not many news that can hnoestly move the market. Most of moves are fak and are about to be shadowed by correcting ove to prerelease level.
Sunday, 17 May 2009
Friday, 15 May 2009
Today Price action on German Prelim GDP q/q made me think, was that huge move predictable. No matter what direction, I just wonder was that possible to predict a size of move.
My general idea so far is that if there's no reason for price to change, it must bounce back. Price of EU was pumped up by risk appetite, so it must take some opposite movement to close all those positions. In other hand there was already couple of days since EU rocketed up, so there is a chance that part of profits is already taken and some sell pressure released slowly enough to keep price in place.
Recently however I started to consider, whether it is possible to predict big move on a news even if it's not exactly clear what is current market sentiment.
Today Core CPI is tradable.
I would be more happy to short EURUSD especially if it retrace to at least 1.3590. If it will not, I would predict short with possible bounce back up to that level [maybe even a bit lower - to monthly pivot level @ 1.3577].
Thursday, 14 May 2009
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Three steps back
As a result of my prediction proved right [I spoted nice oportunity for short trade on UK Inflation Report in previous post] I refused to use my brain anymore which is quite shameful. After nice trade I have opened another position during Retail Sales news. I have stated today morning that there's no point in trading UJ which I did, and after that I placed EURJPY order and wider my Stop Loss.
What happen next is exactly what should happen to someone who as a result of overestimation ignores his own judgemets on what one should ad what one should not to do.
I'm ashamed ad gracefull that I finished my day a bit above zero [but loses huts a lot ;)]
Today I see nice oportuty to short GBPUSD during Inflation Report as it aproaches quite significant resistant @ 1.5373.
At the same time EURUSD s approachig its resistat point @ 1.3738 and USDJPY is nearly on the bottom of daily channel - 95.62.
I wouldn't trade UJ up, but all other pairs are very promising.