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Jocelyn
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It’s going to be a shrinking table then Mr GJ. My sister (Anna), Art & the others have drunk up, paid their bill & wandered off into the night. I agree with Arty & Andre, this joint is aimed more at the equity & ftrs community + the coding & indicator crew, which is fine if that floats your boat. Nice & friendly for sure, & I’m certain it’ll continue to attract a healthy following. But to be honest as far as the retail offering goes, it doesn’t have anything else out there to beat.
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tell you what, ring around a few of the Prime Broker, IB desks & major firms who operate in this environment & when you get thru to a dealer or senior bod ask for feedback on your (spot) Fx-volume strategy & how it might be best tweaked or improved upon. I’d be sure & hold the ear piece away from your ear a little though, coz they’ll be laughing so loud & hard it’ll rattle your head. That’s how ridiculous that scenario really is. This thread should really carry a health warning. Either that, or just nuke it so it can't do any lasting harm.
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As Mr GammaJammer say's; you're totally wasting your time, efforts & merely pissing into a headwind attempting to read something (volumes on spot) which doesn't exist. If you insist on matching up a volume print with your price grid then go trade futures.
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You referring to the mish mash of ping pong oil prices/Eurozone inflationary fears/Asian CB activity Gamma? The rumor mill also tends to work overtime when there's a good helping of fundy meat on the menu. Don't you find that quite often it can be a buddy to the price action, particularly if the fundies or chatter is swirling around a key level or zone? Other times it merely serves to pull the rug from under what was a decent (technical) entry or compound stake, only to re-assert itself after all the fun & games has blown itself out. GBPJPY & GBPCHF were certainly 2 prime horses to be on into early European trade if you had a positive view of Sterling. The Asian CB sales were definitely weighing heavy on Cable (& Euro) again this morning.
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Yep, the more back up you got the better the odds. That pair is in a determined bullish trot at present & that 9550 represents another higher low leg, you might want to keep a keen eye on it. But at least you can open your parachute if it starts to get away from you That's definitely the type of analysis that will pay dividends though (matching a trigger up with sensible price action geography). Hope this one fills your + column for you.
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I'm sorry kiwi & forsearch but I just couldn't resist. My lil old fingers were just itching to haul this up here when I caught his post this mornin. I'm gonna pull my chair up next to Andre just in case you old boys come crashing in here with your pointy white hats/robes & waving your fire torches - you'll have to get thru him first & by golly he can stretch himself up a ways if he cares to :o if ianp was watching this story unfold then he got him a sweet piece of pie with his artilliary. In fact you snagged it twice if it was high on your radar. Depending on your risk appetite you got 2 platforms to exit the train too You might not have engineered the 2nd entry (or compound stake) via the higher low shift due to the time of day. But I guess that depends on how much you like your bed? (they're 15m graphs by the way).
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Don't you find though that folks have a tendancy to embrace & overemphasize bad news more than they do good news? I guess that (fear) simply knocks onto trading as it does in the wider world. I guess maybe a good percentage of it is pre-conditioned. Offer someone an item of good news & they'll fish & ferret around for confirmation first, allowing the good news to begin cooling off. Pitch in a sorry tale of woe or panic & they go all out & stampede it to death :o Human nature is a strange condition for sure.
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She drew the short straw (twilight shift). It’s an excellent arrangement actually, as it ensures Andre obtains maximum possible torment value! We got the flicking of hazelnuts off rulers onto the head area down to a fine art. If our aim is off center, then we can revert to jawboning him into submission :haha:
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You kiddin me? seen the state of these charts out there? There's a whole lot of pain going on with everyone chopping & changing course every 10 minutes. Especially those pesky Yens. I blame the Chinese. We'll maybe have to go wait tables for KFC at this rate girlie.
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Oh my, am I ever glad to see you. What kept ya? All sorts have been occurring, this is one busy little corner of the world. I landed last week right in the middle of a bustling, noisy boatload of asylum seekers from the T2W theatre. Lookin round for a cab, when out of the melee sprints an irate Andre all fired up ready to drown one of those agreeable fella’s he mistook for some batty old Greek philosopher. I think maybe the forum police marked his card though. He’s been his usual morose self ever since. Hell, there’s him trying to poke my eyes out with a sharpened lead pencil & a small posse of indicator haters tossing water bombs at me. Apart from that, we got ourselves a real friendly fort. Some charming fella’s right here in this thread. Mr D. Burrow of Phoenix & his chums are holding court over at the price & volume table, + they got a whole bunch of interesting vsa, profile & wot not stuff going on. They even got them a music thread. Hooty mon tooty ,we’ll have us a ball. Oh, & you missed your buddy Jason Alan Jankovsky. He was here a while, I’ve seen his threads. Apparently he’s got his own little corner shop someplace. They don’t care much for price aids here though. Like I said, I got me a small posse of indicator scalpers on my case already. I think I got their number, but it won’t harm if I got back-up, just in case. Ebeneezer Krantz, Andre, Jim & the rest would just as soon see me chased all over this fort than step in & offer helping hand. The forum police are sweethearts. Anyone who muscles that grouchy old milliard into a corner ranks high in my estimation anyhow. So, there’s the deal right there. Think we might stay a while?
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They're all out testing those stops for sure now. 6010-30 for a taxi ride back anyone? Might get a deal for a cheap day return
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Oh now, quit stompin all over my sandcastles you mean old bullies. You watch your step mister (milliard) otherwise I’ll get 'Sean the swot' to impregnate your console with a horrid worm or whatever it is that renders screens impotent. Can you fella’s courier across a technical manual of sorts? I don’t even think I speak that language, do I Andre? All I know is that when I haul that lil sweetie up at specific area’s of intent it gets to work & ensures I can purchase another pair of sassy Jimmy Choo’s. Anyhow, my head is still thumping mildly from yesterday’s endeavors on here + my finger ends have swollen to twice their normal size, so I’m excusing myself today from all this fun & loud play. When in the hell is the cavalry (Tessa) arriving. You’ll get your ass scolded good & proper then Mr Andre moody pants when she comes callin :haha:
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It was only an example of a set-up/trigger Aaron. If those price aid combo's aren't to your liking, then fair enough. The point I was trying to make is, there are numerous little pearls one can assemble to take advantage of a specific short or mid term play. That's merely one which I particularly enjoy batting around when circumstances dictate. Yours could be on a similar theme or completely different. The important thing is, whatever you use needs to suit your style, comfort zone & risk profile. Folks will often take a set-up & strip it back. Bin one piece & replace it with another. Mix & match the base of a set-up with something they find useful & responsive. As long as it does what it's intended, then all good & well. If you use price & volume in harmony with bars on & around key levels or zones, then you need to get that gig nailed down real tight. You should be able to open up your tech graphs, flip through your timeframe menu & quickly adjudge whether you're good to go or not according to market conditions. If you got your strategy well & truly wired into the mains, then you'll easily recognize your Grade A playing field by the way the techs are playing ball.
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Ahh, yes she's a worldly wise trading journey(wo)man who thinks nothing of elbowing her way into all sorts of dingy dens of iniquity :o we're not so adventurous I'm afraid. And judging by the activity today, I'm not surprised. My head & keyboard fingers are hurting. This forum chatting lark is virtually a full-time job. My lord, I'll have Mr Krantz docking my ticket if he opens up this page & counts my roll call this afternoon :\ Regards the info or lack thereof: Sorry, I meant that if we were both chalking off a blank canvas, working our ticket out of a home office, then we'd be utilizing pretty similar info streams? However, like I said; the variety of quality information (squawk, sheets etc) out there these days is certainly within the reach of a well organized & switched on retail operator.
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Hi Wasp, You fella's from the other site sure have some cool handles. You'll have to excuse our lack of inventiveness where nicks are concerned, we don't get out much We would do just fine my friend, just fine. I see the same price as you. You can plot a supply & demand zone or line just as easily as I can from the exact same data. You got bars & candles on your software just the same design as I have. You can fire off a buy or sell clip loaded with a bullet full of booty just as effortlessly as I can. There's so much quality information out there these days for everyone to assemble. Prices are tight due to the sheer variety & depth of available content. There's never been a better time to set your stall out. If you've got a good framework, a balanced attitude, common sense & the ability to filter information then the rewards are truly unlimited. The good news is this business attracts all kinds of weird & wonderful characters :o There's always a regular flow of naive & totally unprepared punters to feed off.