- Search Crypto Craft
- 26 Results
- Lasker replied May 9, 2011
About order flow generators, that's the key point, what we need is several factors to line up, that way it will create an imbalance in supply/demand, take for example the EUR/USD, so far today it looked like it found some support until s&p cut ...
- Lasker replied May 8, 2011
I think one of the key points is that there will be demand for gold and oil, the oil exporters will get many dollars then they have all this dollars and they have to diversify because the dollar is falling, therefore they buy other currencies (EUR, ...
- Lasker replied May 7, 2011
Think outside the chart — Can you trade without the chart ?, take for example the eur/usd and the events that happened on thursday and friday and what's going on right now, what made the eur/usd to have such a fall, is it a good buy right now ...
- Lasker replied Apr 15, 2011
For order flow you have to get an idea of what's the market sentiment, also you should be able to answer some questions like: who has demand for the currency and where most likely that demand will show up, who has been selling the currency, what ...
- Lasker replied Mar 7, 2011
ECB inflation expectations — Here's an interesting article explaining what's going in the ECB and inflation and the problems of the euro one monetary policy fits all. For the last 5 days in IMHO this is what's been generating order flow for ...
- Lasker replied Feb 14, 2011
CTAs and macro managers — Here's some food for thought: url So which one is the order flow category ?
- Lasker replied Feb 6, 2011
Here is what was going on with sterling around that date: url "Underlying sentiment is bearish due to the same themes - uncertain politics, poor economic performance, an uncertain monetary policy outlook and concern about debt. It's hard to see ...
- Lasker replied Oct 6, 2010
This is a top AAA+ thread, we'll learn a lot in here by trying to understand the very basic nature of trading, trying to understand the dynamics that occur day in and day out, and yes, the pdfs are a great resource and anybody following this thread ...
- Lasker replied Oct 5, 2010
I think the character of fridays will be a closing day positions, players who are in profit don't want to take chances over the weekend so they close their positions. Fear and greed will show up most in the peaks and valleys ?
- Lasker replied Oct 5, 2010
Stops and liquidity — Hi esuffw, Why do some players gun for the stops ? Is it because for them it's a profitable strategy ?, if they have to move the market let's say 50 pips to trigger some stops and they use certain amount of capital to do ...
- Lasker replied Oct 4, 2010
Patterns do exist, now what are the probabilities of a successful trade based only on just price action patterns ? go ahead and take the famous head and shoulders pattern, just because the chart just painted that pattern is that going to affect the ...
- Lasker replied Sep 29, 2010
Hi Parazite and thank you for posting the .pdf, after reading the paper, it makes me think that we retail traders have a resource and information limitation to become informed traders but we can somehow be pseudo-informed traders. Also makes me ...
- Lasker replied Sep 29, 2010
Thank you esuffw, you're right, sometimes it's not crystal clear how the big money will react, especially in these times when sometimes the market mood is risk appetite, sometimes it is safe haven flows, I have seen bad economic data coming out of ...
- Lasker replied Sep 28, 2010
Very nice thread you have here going on, I like this way of thinking about the market, the elephants aren't waiting for some MA crossover to enter the market. Also the price action for GBP/USD on monday, will you say that was a trading day ...
- Lasker replied Sep 24, 2010
Here's something I don't really understand, how can a trade be taken based only on some bar pattern ?, in this case some IB bar, divergence, etc, without taking notice with what's going on with the market sentiment/fundamentals, we just had the FOMC ...
- Lasker replied Sep 15, 2010
And so the intervention has begun — Now I would like to see 90.00, that will give me some pips , we just need the US economy to improve a little bit or to show some signs that it's just a slow recovery but that it will start to pick up later ...
- Lasker replied Aug 27, 2010
USD/CHF 1.0220 level — Hey Mike, Are you looking at the USD/CHF 1.0220 level, at least 4 bars (1H) have been rejected from that level, a bunch of stops just below that level and perhaps 1.0200 too, what are your thoughts about it ?
- Lasker replied Aug 12, 2010
the line in the sand — A few things going on here, some people have talked about usd/jpy at 80.00 also 82.00 as the line in the sand for the usd/jpy, also it has been reported that China has been buying a lot of Japanese debt. Interesting to ...
- Lasker replied Aug 6, 2010
learn what, how and why the market moves ... — Go and read the thread about orderflow: url Then don't use any indicators at all, any, the best indicator it's your brain, you have to think about what/how could move the market, what are the ...
- Lasker replied Jun 17, 2010
Spot on, nothing better than having a plan in place for the possible outcomes and reacting according to it. * SNB omits pledge to fight excessive franc rise decisively * SNB keeps rate target at 0.25 percent, as expected * Ups 2010 growth fcst to ...