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DislikedBTW, GU is now +132 and EY +40. This is great!!! I can't wait for this week to end!!! I'm still observing this...Ignored
DislikedBTW, GU is now +132 and EY +40. This is great!!! I can't wait for this week to end!!! I'm still observing this...Ignored
DislikedWish granted Winston.
After looking over the 7 pairs I am watching, I decided that 2 were worth trading this week. This being GBP/JPY and USD/CHF. I am looking for volatility in a weekly range.
I used the Friday close for both trades. However for Guppy I set my sell 1 point below Sunday's open. Sunday had a large gap in it from Friday, but I would do better to ignore Sunday completely and just trade from Friday. I would have another 60 pips on today's trade if I had done so, however I'm not sure if the buy stop would have triggered at all, so perhaps it is necessary to trade this way with this broker.
I used 50 point stops on both sides of the trade. Per TheRealThing's method, I am closing out the opposite trade when the first trade gets triggered. Fewer but better trades should result.
So far, am up about 200 pips on Guppy and although the swissy sell trade was triggered at 1.0371, it has not really taken off.
I'll post my results for these on Friday.Ignored
DislikedWinston i too am trying this system out...i charted G/U wrong like pidgeon did as well (on GBP/JPY) and did not go from fridays close. That threw me off there.
MY U/CHF was triggered but stopped out so i am waiting to see what goes on with U/CHF (messed up my stop loss on that too as i was late entering the market this week)Ignored
DislikedI'm broadening my scope this week to include 4 pairs for the system, last week I only traded two pairs and both were stopped out.
So, I'm using last week's Friday close and entering 50 points above and below it. Stops are placed at 60 pips for now, eventually I'd like to tailor these to each pair. Target for most pairs is 120 pips (not a hard target but an estimate of ATR, we let it run until Friday close).
The major change from last week: I'm not going to delete the reverse order once the first one gets filled, which is in line with the original rules. I missed a good move on one pair by not having the companion order still in place for later in the week. Two stops on a pair is the limit however.
Also, I had a problem with my ODL demo account this morning, so I had to reenter all my trades around 7:00 EST this morning. This might turn out well on several pairs, as we saw last week there is often an initial false breakout before the true weekly direction asserts itself.
Pairs I am trading this week are EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY, and USD/CHF.
I'm staying off of Aussie, Loonie, and Guppy this week.
Good trading to ya, I'll update on Friday as I did last week.Ignored
DislikedTake this for example. E/U this week.
Buy at 1.5832 or Sell at 1.5732?
I'll probably have a second thought on the buy side - unless it will break the monthly pivot r1 by a significant pips then that's a breakout to buy..
So, I'll probably will be more comfortable on the sell side.. and take some profits in weekly pivot. Re-enter or let the remaining lots run - at least you get positive.
Target reached this morning actually after sold last night...Ignored