LTRO, Bernanke — EUR529bn uptake of LTRO money yest. Great. So in the interim, we expect to see liquidity and insolvency risk to fall off the cliff. Banks and financial institutions should also have enough to tide them over the increased ...

Positioning with Medium Term Fundamentals

Pairs I have views on @ e moment: Comdty/JPY GBP/JPY EUR/JPY Again, I see limited downside in the medium term trend for these pairs. GBP and EUR in particular have upside catalysts. BOJ came out with a statement today saying that the trade deficit ...

Positioning with Medium Term Fundamentals

AUD is proabbly not going to outperform NZD in the medium term despite the firmer interest rate. The main reason for this is that AUD terms of trade has actually been deteriorating, and RBA has said that they lean towards rate cuts, IF external ...

Positioning with Medium Term Fundamentals

USD & US Equities — one of the scenarios Im looking for, is a breakout (BOT from now on. Im lazy to type), above 1371 for SPX and 13000 for DJIA. This should give rise to a weaker USD. Of course, expecting 1.35 to break north on EUR/USD. ...

Positioning with Medium Term Fundamentals

BOJ — While the BOJ changed its language in describing 1 percent consumer inflation as a near-term price "goal," it avoided describing it as an explicit target. Political pressure from the current fin minister Azumi to keep pace with inflation ...

Positioning with Medium Term Fundamentals

I am there, mr 'consistent'.

The Holy Grail - Found

this thread's degenerating into shit like the rest of em'. thanks for the tip captain obvious.

The Holy Grail - Found

Nice. If only IFR would tell us that there're freaggin' barriers there before hand. Is there anyone with knowledge of where to get barrier/stop newsfeeds? Pls PM me. =)

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Stop Cascade USDJPY — From my understanding of order flow and reading darkstar's stuff, I smell a stop cascade in USDJPY last night. Looks like more than 1 barrier / massive stop got triggered. Anyone with the data can confirm that?

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yeah mate. essentially this is why many come to realise it's the "levels"/"stuff in the white spaces of the chart" that are more important. at the end of the day, it's people buying/selling that moves price aye? hence why news/shifts in sentiment ...

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Darkstar, since you're active on this thread now, I'd just like to take this opportunity to say thank you for helping to shed light on this perspective of the markets. Learning to think in terms of the market and it's participants has been a ...

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Amen to that mate. To me from current understanding "order flow trading" is, as SKFX has said, "thinking about the white spaces on the charts" and who might be motivated to take action there... and why.

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I would answer you, but it looks like you've excluded me from the people group whom you'd like answers from.

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Thanks Marv. My perspective of it is trying to understand the incentives of market participants given how a particular market is trading at the moment. Very much like poker in the sense you're sussing out the incentives of your opponents. (and if ...

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Almost do not follow FF anymore. But wanted to make a rare contribution in tribute to SKFX who started this thread and got me thinking about orderflow. I'd say, it's a mindset. It's looking at the chart, and thinking about where big money players ...

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I have to concur FULLY and whole heartedly. I think the only thing I can add is to not be limited by what other people say is "reasonable" to achieve. 4% a month isn't a great return unless you have $1,000,000 or more to begin with... and that's a ...

My path to financial freedom

Looks like we're experiencing a migration here eh? =) LJ, I think you're attracting the more aggressive J16 folk here. Haha. Good on ya mate. =)

My path to financial freedom

LJ, What timeframes do you trade? I've seen everything from 4h down to 5min. As in, do you have a main timeframe you stick to?

My path to financial freedom

I was "tempted" by weekly and monthly high/low/close + great PA. I use the GMT+3 to +4 (1hour) opening range as well. It works wonders. Have added these things to my level based trading. I've actually found that it works pretty well, esp when ...

My path to financial freedom