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Well I'm just sitting here watching the hockey game and reflecting on yesterday's great trades..... It's time to get setup for tonights sessions. I usually try to at least be around for the Asian/Euro and London/US overlaps. Lately I have been trying to hard to sit through all of Asia all the way through the US Lunchtime break. I can only manage that 1 or 2 days a week. So anyways lets take a look at where we are today after yesterdays moves.

We started off the week with this chart: (Please see notes on the image)



Then after a great moves, (which were right in-line with the analyze above!) we wound up here, sometime around 9:00am or so EDT. :



It is now a nearing 9:30pm EDT and here is our updated study: (Note I have altered my chart templates a bit :) I hope the new color scheme suits the eyes a bit better)



 

Here is my study chart for this week. I will Update my thoughts as the opening of market develops. For now see the chart! happy hunting!


Continuing from last time....

So the few of you who stuck around with any sort of interest after hearing "carry" "hedge" and "grid", are probably asking OK what is this crazy method.


Cable Approach!

Posted by: Fay in technical analysiscarry trading on

Fay

This is a brief introductory to my system.
The overall basis is to collect the massive moves of two pairs on a daily basis, and then carry the losses. The two pairs used have a good negative correlation to each other and as a result react as a hedge as well.
EUR/TRY and USD/DKK
As you can see this is a relatively strong correlation.
now we don't just place a trade on both and hope one gains profit, sorry that's just a losing scenario.
we are using a grid method on both and only short. the result is when one goes down and shoots through our orders we collect a small % of the move on every take profit(TP). the other pair will in most cases not go through any of our orders. this is beneficial as it reduces any draw down.
Now we do end up with many orders not taking profit, and its not that big of a deal as we will earn interest on these. usddkk doesn't have that great of an interest rate but eurtry definitely does, at around 11-12% each order is also small and only gains a small % on the account so the draw down is again minimized by that fact.
I will post more details later.
Cont'd