GBPJPY showed a bull flag that built up over the last several hours. The breakout was a fundamental event by BoE's Carney which led to this massive move in Geppy.
Here is the way I trade to make money. I apply this strategy to the four currency pairs I monitor. The strategy: Open a cable(gbp/usd) 5-min chart, set it to candlesticks, apply pivot indicator with standard(R3, R2, R1, P, S1, S2, S3) and mid-pivots(M1, M2,...) enabled. Apply the RSI(Relative Strength Index) indicator to the chart. Set it to 14. Set levels to 30, 50 and 70. 70 is overbought and 30 is oversold. Change chart to hourly peridocity and determine the dominant trend. It will be one of three things: ascending, descending or ranging. If the trend is not apparent, change to the daily chart and determine the trend. Mark it on your chart with a trend line. While at the daily and hourly charts, make note of support and resistance(s/r) levels. You can use previous highs/lows, fibonacci retracements, pivots, round numbers(00 or 50) or all of the above in any combination you find price reacts to. You can mark previous high/lows and round numbers on the chart with horizontal lines. As...
The session got off to a roaring start today and didn't let up. Cable and Geppy both plowed lower from the opening bell in New Zealand. I didn't find much opportunity from a couple of hours before the London open through the lunch hour. I managed to scalp off about 25 pips on trades I thought had a decent chance of turning into a retracement moves on cable. No go. I've been concentrating on cable as my main focus lately. It might do me well to head back over to the geppy camp. It's been running pretty nice the last few sessions. I'll be keeping a closer eye on it this week. It's looking like the GM news of the Obama Administration rejecting their latest plan, yet offering more cash for restructuring(though not through bankruptcy) will take it's toll on the U.S. market Monday morning. Futures are already in substantial negative territory. There is a long shot outlook that the market could view it as a positive in that possibly more of the deadwood that's ...
Wednesday's session was difficult to get a entry I believed would move in my chosen direction. The trend for both GBP/USD and GBP/JPY was down overall. Both were slowing their descents by the time London opened for business. Movement was slow for GBP/USD covering very little ground on it's inevitable march upward. UK Trade Balance data was released and shown to be negative. I waited for a drop that never came. Finally, I found an Inside bar formation that looked to fit the bill. No go. I took a loss for -16 when the subsequent candle invalidated my entry. That was the extent of my trading for Wednesday. I couldn't reconcile the price action of a stronger GBP to the poor Trade Balance data. Hopefully, the tea leaves will be clearer for today's session.
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