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Postby dojirock » Thu Dec 12, 2013 3:27 pm

Feels good to sleep and trade! Need to put down in a trading plan now and increase lot size after I get some space.
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Postby TygerKrane » Thu Dec 12, 2013 4:42 pm

I know I haven't been an active poster, but I've never heard of a Dragon Belly...

**Krane catches Tyger** !>I'm here to chew bubble gum and make major pips...and I'm all out of bubble gum.<!

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Postby newscalper » Thu Dec 12, 2013 5:13 pm

TygerKrane wrote:I know I haven't been an active poster, but I've never heard of a Dragon Belly...

It's about 1 page ago - it's another HA type candle

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Postby newscalper » Thu Dec 12, 2013 5:15 pm

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Yeah I know I was short and long dollar at the same time

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Postby Jalarupa » Thu Dec 12, 2013 5:58 pm

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Yeah I know I was short and long dollar at the same time


I've been watching this arbitrage for a while... You definitely had the right idea but sad to say you are about a week late to the party...

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Postby newscalper » Thu Dec 12, 2013 7:55 pm

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Postby newscalper » Fri Dec 13, 2013 9:45 am

Closed at 103.73

Works lovely when the market trends. When it's a mess like Cable atm it's another story.

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Postby newscalper » Fri Dec 13, 2013 9:48 am

Jalarupa wrote:
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Yeah I know I was short and long dollar at the same time


I've been watching this arbitrage for a while... You definitely had the right idea but sad to say you are about a week late to the party...

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Are you talking about correlation or arbing? I wasn't talking about arbing - I just mentioned that yes I did realise I was long and short dollar at the same time - same as trading the cross.
I've a few indies for correlation tried using them a LOOONG time ago as an entry tool. Even at the 5 minute level they're not much help because at the time you should be entering guess what?

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Postby Jalarupa » Fri Dec 13, 2013 1:35 pm

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Jalarupa wrote:
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Yeah I know I was short and long dollar at the same time


I've been watching this arbitrage for a while... You definitely had the right idea but sad to say you are about a week late to the party...

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Are you talking about correlation or arbing? I wasn't talking about arbing - I just mentioned that yes I did realise I was long and short dollar at the same time - same as trading the cross.
I've a few indies for correlation tried using them a LOOONG time ago as an entry tool. Even at the 5 minute level they're not much help because at the time you should be entering guess what?


You were engaged in an arbitrage play by trading long/short Dollar - and I was showing you that it did work very well a few weeks ago... When the Pound was rising and the Yen was falling in tandem...

Technically if you had entered into that trade say 3 weeks ago and held it until now you would be very well hedged as the two pairs started to decouple from one another this week...

In terms of correlation I am busy working on teaching myself to eyeball price action on three pairs while looking to place complimentary trades on two of them as I have noticed that in cross currency pairs three interrelated names will generally move 2 up 1 down or the other way around... The key for me is to try and identify which two are are leading price action forward and place complimentary trades on them... A great example of this was seen this morning in Cable and Yen Crosses

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Weakness in Cable dragging GBPJPY lower and USDJPY Higher

Then Cable stalls at demand and USDJPY drags GBPJPY even lower...
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Postby newscalper » Fri Dec 13, 2013 4:20 pm

And out, was a bit late on entry but made some pips
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