-- Amount estimated by dealers at Y400 billion to Y500 billion so about 6 billion US dollars

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

Yep, sleeping pills and alcohol. Not a good mix.

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

He supposedly did that song when he was 13, too bad he died. And yeah solesides is sick

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

Sick instrumentals. . . I'm feelin some hip hop video video video

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

lol

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

Yeah if this ends with a downgrade from Moody's looking certain then there won't be that much to look forward too as far as a dollar rally. If genuine panic does occur at any point then that changes things, but right now we're pricing in the ...

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

Nice observations nasir, smart play too! Those are actually some some of my favorite types of news trade. Where the market feels the need to price in information(not necessarily a rumor) but the information is voided instantly causing an immediate ...

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

Woah anyone watching the USD/JPY? IFR: USD/JPY spikes to highs of 78.75 - in a blink of an eye, from sub 78.00 - on speculation of BoJ/MoF intervention and back down at 78.35 - no confirmation. I had shorted into the stops below as the two speeches ...

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

One that requires qualitative analysis of market conditions. One that you feel you HAVE to risk more because otherwise you are leaving money on the table. Take a look at George Soros' famous short. What could have compelled to him to take a ...

Good returns realistic by trading with higher time frames?

To expand on this a bit, price can be manipulated in the short term by players with deep pockets. The reason they don't impact long term trends is because. . . 1) Profit motivated manipulations require large amounts of exposure therefore players ...

My take on trading

Yeah it's just cool that we can ride their liquidity. It is pretty neat how they actually do it. I wonder how organized they get.

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

lol makes you feel like a cool kid. I love stop hunts. I never get tired of watching their price action. That's pretty interesting though. I didn't know retailers were so big on this. I wonder how much activity they make up.

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

Wow! Those numbers SUCKED! LOL I wish I could have been around to trade it. I checked the numbers while I was driving and laughed out loud. This is pretty damaging for bullish sentiment. I'm going to have to do a lot of planning for next week. Good ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

Based off the EUR/USD's relative price action to other risk vehicle's, yes. I've been thinking about the creditors too. They will not act until the EZ actually makes a decision on what to do with banks. Recent news suggest this won't be solved any ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

Awesome Cheetah, I had a feeling it was going to be a good book. That's exactly the information I look for.

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

I've been wondering the same thing myself. I was expecting the AUD/USD to follow the EURO back down. I've been suprised to see it still hold. I'm holding a similar idea to yours about why they've held. I think it's just a more attractive vehicle ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

I never checked personally. DS said he was gonna write something up after. He never did though. I assumed things went according to expectations. Let's find out though lol

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

He doesn't necessarily talk fundamentals because fundamentals don't run this game. He talks about expectations a lot though. Darkstar's old posts are awesome.

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

Yeah the news to start the week was lame(I was long). Bailout tranche wasn't news, Possible delay on second bailout package, bad credit agency banter, weak China news, Australia numbers were mostly weak too.(playing aussie and euro). Sovereign ...

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Since we're on the subject, kinda. Anyone want to talk risk appetite? The way I'm seeing things right now is that the market WANTS to take risk on but it remains skeptical, for good reason too. The Greece situation is showing that the risk of an ...

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset