a long trade for me ..........im about 10 pips down but holding .....its worth a little time more ......
I have had a look at the chart, as posted, The question is, if there opposing currencies are quite near to the zero line, should I pursue the trade, sell US on it's own or walk away??
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Thanks for your answer, cheers Steve
That is not dissimiliar to a question I was posing recently about the zero line. The best position to enter is where two currencies diverge at the zero line. If you wait for the divergence to be confirmed, you have to ask yourself, at what point are you happy to enter? There has to be a pont (obviously) where you enter the trade. However, this decision has to be taken in balance with the fact that, the later you leave it, the more chance you have of hitting the end of the move, and worse case, take the trade in completely the wrong direction.
I am not sure there is a definitive or right answer here. However as so often is the case in trading, I think it comes down to judgement and experience...
Right, far too late to be answering questions so seriously... it is gone 1am so I think probably best I get some sleep... 😴
J
Mornin all .......before I respond to Steve heres the week so far and some ideas for today
the week has been a game of 2 halves (as they say in soccer)
Dow got stronger into tuesday .....but it couldnt suppress the Yen and USD south (or together) so trades were thinnish.......some euro buys by very late Tuesday evening
Wednesday DOW opened thru London am session flat.....but the yen and USD were already coming north and signalling intent .....GBP dumped off of bad economics and the Dow flow went south big making easy signals for us to sell the Euro & GBP (again) and even AUD for the next few significant hours and well well into thursday western sessions....
its all change now with Dow bouncing and the YEN and USD have gone South so we are looking at some buys on the aUD , GBP and soon the Euro today so far ....
Friday gameplan
hmmm...tough one ......
my first check is to see where traders will be locking in stops to ensure they preserve weekly profits......especially on the big Currency movers which this week are Sterling (short) and Yen (long)
Sterling has roughly already retraced over 50% on this weeks sell action and is hanging around the lows of last weeks low (resistance point ?) ...... Yen is into its third consecutive week of winners and is currently showing roughly at 25% retrace on the weeks high....see the 500ma chart below where I look for this level of detail
so where is the Dow going today ?....... its bounced back 50% on the highs of the week already so not as much to play with on predictions there....gut feel tells me more downside now but thats not gonna pay the rent
Based on above I would actually just go with the flow on whatever TF you are using.....if its the 15m trade 20ma with normal signals ....and 5 min is scalping anyway so who cares about the 4hour TF ....
later all ...I'll put a screenleap up later if I can scalping the 5mins
N
Hello friends. The FX correlator does not load on my MT4
Did anyone else have such a problem? if so how did u fix that?
Thanks in advance DD