Alternative market - during these times?

Hello,
it might be a stupid question but I will ask them anyway.

I have a good trading system that's not my question and I don't want to discuss it.

My problem is that since a month (at least) the forex market is more ranging than trending probably cause of the Euro crisis.
So sometimes I still can make nice profits but its less than months before.

My question is - are there any other markets/financial instruments which are acting in a more usual manner during these times?

best regards

Define usual... the EURUSD (as an example) has been trending pretty strongly for over a month now, and acting basically the same as it has been since the start of 2008. 1.4550 - 1.3150 (roughly) in about a month... considerable trend.

Actually, looking at a few of the other majors, they all have been trending pretty strongly for over a month now. Can you clarify?

It's not only the range i'ts also the volatility, if you have 30 pip Bars on the 5M chart it's not nice to trade.

So, what do you expect? Volatility is always part of the market, typical recession-phase's price move. Every market is volatile in this phase. If you're not prepared for that, stay away from your trading platform until recession over, could be months or even years from now.

"Most" traders focus on Euro. I have no idea why that is, but it seems to be the case. Many years ago, Euro was an excellent trending pair, with volume and volatility. It also went in one direction, so if you were wrong, just wait it out.

Nowadays, it just gets slapped around many days, but retailers are still glued to it like a long term relationship.

AUD moves better than Euro, in my opinion.

I don't see why people don't just go where the trading is smooth and the pips come in numbers.

EUR/AUD and GBP/AUD.

Some people (myself included) enjoy these conditions.

As with almost all things trading, to each his own; saying AUD moves better than EUR is like saying red is better than blue.

Yes, you are right. I was simply offering a possible alternative to someone who finds the recent conditions difficult to decipher. But yeah, each has their own view.

No worries, it really all depends on the person and how they trade, but I'm just curious as to what exactly the OP meant when he said "the forex market is ranging" for the last month, when if anything all the majors have actually been trending very strongly.

Well I'd have to go way out on a limb and make some assumptions, but.... the real difference lately has been the volatility. September has been a busy month in the markets. And although several currencies have finally made some large moves, the market likes to chop, pullback, and make things difficult along the way. I've noticed.... that although Euro has turned out to be one of the bigger movers overall, it has also done it's best to shake out short traders along the way. There's a lot of money involved so it likes to make things difficult. And I'm guessing that... that is the trouble the OP has actually been dealing with, just judging by one short post, of course.

But on days when Euro has made moves I've noticed that AUD makes just as good of a move without some of the chop. And I've further noticed that, especially lately, EUR/AUD and PoundAud have made fantastic moves. Like 4 and 500 pip trends in a day or two on a 5 minute chart.

It seems a lot of retailers, especially newer traders, stick to Euro because they think it's the best pair. I just happen to think it isn't (the best).

So, I made my offer for an alternative. I think Gold and Silver are big movers lately too.... but I'm not going to suggest them as alternatives here, too easy to get smoked by 'em.

You can answer the question for yourself just by looking at free stock market data and free futures data online. Big Charts dot com, Stock Charts dot com, CME Group dot com, FINVIZ dot com... many others. Corn has been in a nice, steady downtrend for a month.

Trade smaller, if you can't handle that then wait until confidence in your system returns.

Sounds about right. Personally I love this price action. It's almost too obvious where traders are getting shaken out. For the last month I've been using just a combination of time, previous day high/low, and current day high/low to make my trading decisions.

Today's noon EURUSD drop is a perfect example. The most notable high was made around 8:30AM. There was a pullback heading into the US equity open, bottoming at 09:45, before resuming upwards and cracking that high again at 10:30, but making virtually zero headway above the 8:30 high. Price pulled back again before bottoming at 11:20, and resuming upwards again. Seemed there was little reason to believe we would continue making new highs after the London close with so little conviction, and a pretty traditional triangle/pennant was forming, meaning in my mind the upside is very limited but there will probably be a break somewhere. Price continues up heading into 12PM, near highs for the day > screams short.