Instruments for 2016

Hi everyone

I am working on the list about the instruments I want to squeeze next... I mean this year...

This is my List of 2015:

AUDCAD, AUDCHF, AUDJPY, AUDNZD, AUDUSD
CADCHF, CADJPY
CHFJPY
EURAUD, EURCAD, EURCHF, EURGBP, EURJPY, EURNZD, EURUSD
GBPAUD, GBPCAD, GBPCHF, GBPJPY, GBPNZD, GBPUSD
NZDCAD, NZDCHF, NZDJPY, NZDUSD
USDCAD, USDCCK, USDCHF, USDCNH, USDDKK, USDHKD, USDHUF, USDJPY, USDMXN, USDNOK, USDPLN, USDRUB, USDSEK, USDSGD, USDTRY, USDZAR

Gold, Silver

Cocoa, Coffee, Corn, Cotton, Soybean, Sugar, Wheat

kOil, sOil, NatGas

DAX, Dow Jones, NASDAQ, S&P500, Nikkei

I will delete all the red ones, add the greens and need your help with the blue ones.

red:
Due to the fact, that I am only able to trade after work in the late houres of the day I need instruments which are still accessable in the last houres of the day.

blue:
Gold - Silver and kOil - sOil and DJ- NASDAQ - S&P have naturally very similar movements. I am not sure but I think I will minimize to one of each group. Which ones you could recommend? Or do you think this approach is the wrong one?

Additionally I want to ask you... What will you take a closer look at in 2016?

I don't think anyone can help you, without knowing how or why you trade.

Think about your trading style ..... do you seek to profit from longer term trends, or volatility, or short term price patterns etc..? Then add instruments which you think will move in that manner, and remove instruments which won't move in that manner.

For example ..... I trade in the direction of medium/long term trends in line with fundamental biases ..... so for 2016 I will be taking a closer look at euro stock indices. The reason? The fundamentals are convincing me that in 2016, euro indices will likely trend in a way which my system will profit from. Choose instruments which suit your trading style, and ditch the ones that don't.

Hi numbnuts

After reading your post I feel kind of stupid to have asked the question in the manner I did.

My trading system/style can be described as solely technical swing trading. This means my positions should last between a day to a month or so. I will focus mainly on 4x but am intersted in price movements in major commodities as Oil and Gold. To keep the bigger picture I want to take a look in 2016 into the economies of the US, DE and JP.

Additionally I am interested in the SMI but this one is traded outside my trading window (late houres in the evening).

For the moment my list contains of the things below:
AUDCAD, AUDCHF, AUDJPY, AUDNZD, AUDUSD
CADCHF, CADJPY
CHFJPY
EURAUD, EURCAD, EURCHF, EURGBP, EURJPY, EURNZD, EURUSD
GBPAUD, GBPCAD, GBPCHF, GBPJPY, GBPNZD, GBPUSD
NZDCAD, NZDCHF, NZDJPY, NZDUSD
USDCAD, USDCCK, USDCHF, USDCNH, USDDKK, USDHUF, USDJPY, USDMXN, USDNOK, USDPLN, USDSEK, USDSGD, USDTRY, USDZAR

CFDs:
Gold, Silver
Sweet Crude Oil, NatGas
DAX, Dow Jones, NASDAQ, S&P500, Nikkei

These are the instruments which hopefully will behave nicely this year.