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  • #41
  • Aug 20, 2007 3:18am Aug 20, 2007 3:18am
a smart thing last week woulda been to stay away from usd and jpy pairs

i personally traded eurchf gbpchf euraud

shortin gbpchf on every move up.

i did more than 100 pips a day last week
i doubled a sub account(a bit high risk but small money)

i know its probably a typical carry unwind like the past ones but picking bottoms like alotta people did is dangerous. ive gotten burnt before doin that and i figured the best thing to do during an unwind is stay away. when the trend resumes back up then start buyin again

i noticed some and not all carry traders almost dont focus on any other aspects of making money. so what are these people gonna do when the carry tradin is over later on? thats why i think whatever ur trading style is, u should at least know how to get by with some trendlines a long term moving average and maybe a stochastic and at least pick up retracements in strong trends for a dozen pips a day
  • #42
  • Aug 20, 2007 7:58am Aug 20, 2007 7:58am
Quoting mobi
SPOT COT? FOREX?
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You can look COT or you neednt.
I wasnt talking about that.
If you are talking about "all" spot brokers at COT report, this is yo' hmwrk?
My 2 cents are then awaiting some facts from yo' research!

Thanks
&
Nice day
Haven't the slightest idea what you mean in this reply. There is no such thing as a "Spot" COT report.
Either chose to use the report or not....your choice, and do your own research. You seem to know best. I need to prove nothing. Just be wasting my time anyways.

Good Luck out there
Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance
  • #43
  • Aug 20, 2007 3:58pm Aug 20, 2007 3:58pm
The market has to go up...there is a very good take by mogambo guru at safehaven...

450 billion dollars was pumped in by the US Fed, to the market last week to steady the sinking ship...In just two days fed printed dollars and more than what gates, sergei and larry page could do with microsoft and google in years...fed did in two days..

Thats what power and printing press could do more than brains and mathematics
  • #44
  • Aug 20, 2007 10:37pm Aug 20, 2007 10:37pm
Quoting spiderforex
The market has to go up...there is a very good take by mogambo guru at safehaven...

450 billion dollars was pumped in by the US Fed, to the market last week to steady the sinking ship...In just two days fed printed dollars and more than what gates, sergei and larry page could do with microsoft and google in years...fed did in two days..

Thats what power and printing press could do more than brains and mathematics
I think your figures are way off. From what I read, it was around $38 billion that the Fed ended up injecting last week.
  • #45
  • Aug 21, 2007 5:48am Aug 21, 2007 5:48am
Quoting spiderforex
I just cannot understand who lost money last week.

And we know that trading is a zero sum game, where someone has to loose for you to win.

I can't figure out who lost money last week. from reading forums here, we know newbies who started a week ago made some profits. I started trading couple of years ago and I'm not a professional.

Now, come to think of it, the guys who has millions and billions in hand, the hedge funds and Institutions who hire Ph'd and mathematicians and to top they work like a team with lightning information and super powerful computers.

Will they be stupid enough not to realize what is coming, these guys are market movers....they do and we follow...YET someone has to loose for our gains.

Now carry traders.. even if you do small carry trading..you close out on Monday if you see any bad coming, but last week was whole 5 days of downfall and yet money keep coming in for us to win.

Something is missing here....how could the guys who move the PIPS loose...its impossible...The very market is present due to big guys and say if they had lost all money that would mean..the market will stop functioning.

I think we all are eating government printing press money issued to banks. They do not carry any value until it comes into the market....The market is just representing whats the value of your money.

That would explain why the government pumped billions of dollars into the market and lowered interest rates for banks to borrow more money.

The market just can't keep coming down for ever else it will be the end of civilization ....market will have to go up some day..now if the hedge funds and institutions have lost money..who will make the market go up..the Ph'd's and mathematicians would have being fired long ago..but we know thats not the fact...all data shows..these market movers profits climb like a rocket year after year..take goldmann sacks, citi group ..i never saw any data..showing they are about to go bankrupt...their profits compounds every year it seems.

I think we all are playing into the hands of our respective governments plus big institutions..they just print money and pump into the market and we all have to accept it.

They flood the market with money and drain it in a cycle...in the biggest picture...all it would matter is where do we stand, thats what forex learning is all about.

I would appreciate ANY comment on this...Thanks

Trading is NOT a zero sum game dude. You don't know there are spreads.
When I buy it, it moves down. When I sell it, it moves up.
  • #46
  • Aug 21, 2007 10:00am Aug 21, 2007 10:00am
Quoting CateFul
just watch how many people are going to lose money in the coming weeks.
why this pessimistic case..........
the lose is a part of trade ...
best regards
  • #47
  • Aug 21, 2007 10:53am Aug 21, 2007 10:53am
Quoting Hagbard Celine
Trading is not a zero-sum game. Trading Forex however is.

The big guys are the losers here, though just because you took some money from them this week, doesn't mean they lost overall. They may have liquidated positions this week in order to reduce their risk, but whatever overall investment they held is most likely very much in profit. The vast majority of carry trades aren't in currency speculation, but loans used to by other securities or bonds. These loans have been outstanding for years, enough time to make their money many times over. Giving a little back is all part of the game.
good thinking. overall throughout the last 2-3 years especially selling the yen has been fun. i believe many have quadruple their initial balance and now their getting out. as soon as the market stabilise, they will enter again.
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  • #48
  • Aug 21, 2007 11:30am Aug 21, 2007 11:30am
Hedge fund playing the carry trade who entered the party lately lost money
  • #49
  • Feb 21, 2018 3:46pm Feb 21, 2018 3:46pm
ver very rare i lost money this week so far did only one trade and a winner the market has been crazy so i do not trade let see what happen .
  • #50
  • Last Post: Feb 21, 2018 4:12pm Feb 21, 2018 4:12pm
Quoting spiderforex
I just cannot understand who lost money last week. And we know that trading is a zero sum game, where someone has to loose for you to win. I can't figure out who lost money last week. from reading forums here, we know newbies who started a week ago made some profits. I started trading couple of years ago and I'm not a professional. Now, come to think of it, the guys who has millions and billions in hand, the hedge funds and Institutions who hire Ph'd and mathematicians and to top they work like a team with lightning information and super powerful...
What else have left to comment ? perfect and true
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