15 aug Eur session so far no violent movement from Turkish Lira. usdcnh already up copper gold down due to Asian index down. nowadays copper and gold good friend again.
cont ... hmmm. Lira, Zar, Mexican Peso continues its down journey. look at Lira long red candle. even the 100" monitor is not big enough to capture that long candle. perhaps must use projector for display.
15 Aug US session past few hours which futures went down? Nikkei, Taiwan index, simsci, hangseng, China A50, ES YM RTY NQ, dax copper gold so come US session, are these going to go down again? absolutely no idea. Lira went down then recover some. but ZAR and Ruble and peso decided to go up. crude oil - past few days, day range very wide ie highly tradable. oil ranging from 66 to 68 or 70. when oil price is down, financial reporters would say too much inventory or output will be up. when oil price is up, financial reporters would say too little inventory or output will be down. BUT ! oil price can swing up and down within hours ! reading news is for us to laugh ! US retail sales news coming up. but market probably wouldn't be interested in such news as market is too preoccupied with Turkey matters
16 Aug Asian session yesterday long red candle : turkish lira Asian index futures US index futures gold copper long blue candle : usdcnh again after STORM, will there be CALM? Anyway better be alert. news from CNBC : Markets await a Trump tweet as China's currency gets weaker and dollar gets stronger Patti Domm 3 Hours Ago
16 aug Eur session gold 1167 level appears to be quite a strong support Italy btp - strong ut Germany buxl - strong dt ZB - yesterday up asian index - today long blue candle usdcnh - today long red candle lira , Zar - trying to go down?
17 aud Asian session yesterday asian index, YM up gold copper went down and up. spot forex (lira, zar, ruble peso ...) and usdcnh future I will stop monitoring and trading all these now and forever and ever, till end of time. I actually gave up on spot forex years ago. I wouldn't be able to profit from trading spot forex and futures with very low volume as I don't have any edge. Let those bankers, greedy and fearful big boys profit from forex trading. So what am I looking for ? chart candlestick must be based on number of contracts. spot forex - only have # transactions (even with that , I have to pay for the 'lousy' data fees ! one transaction could be few dollars worth, another transaction could be few million dollars worth !! ). chart must not be spiky, jerky, violent, erratic, messy. chart must not have soo many porpupine spikes. spot forex totally failed to meet all these criteria. Good bye spot forex.
17 aug end of week session signals so far : YM up 836a NQ up 904a HS simsci down 1021a sigh ... didn't catch all the signals. simsci - well. I will target reward risk ratio > 5:1 Interesting simsci. price went up too high because those traders followed the gold price which was going up. later people realised it was far too high. now it is going down. it might go down to where it came from. US index futures highly tradable outside US session. this statement contradicts what the experts say.
sudden thought. Sudden thought just came to my mind. How much did I lost last time? I didn't dare to count. perhaps $1m ?!?!?!? But I knew I sold my sports car, sold one of my houses, cancelled some insurance policies, closed some bank accounts. I am sure loss was > $0.5m. Perhaps one day, when I have nothing to do, I will attempt to count. anyway, counting losses is not in my bucket list.
17 Aug eur session hmmm. India Nifty aiming for the moon? PM Modi doing very well. shrinking day range : Germany Buxl futures that are sleeping : dax eur gbp jpy crude oil ( soo obvious it is sleeping even blind people can see it sleeping) copper gold - no idea where it is going what is going to happen next ? also no idea.
cont .... markets very very quiet .... zero heart beat , zero pulse. wonder how long it will be this way. OK. time to powerdown my computers. not worth taking risk trading. let me spend my time doing other things.