A couple of posts in another thread which I thought were valuable. I had to paste them in because when you quote it chops half the text out. Equity millipede thread for those wondering. ============================================== ...

Position Trading - F it, lets start a thread

As predicted there were buyers. Is that reason enough to go long, probably not but it might have been a good time to lighten some trades and take some profit - did I do either? No ha, stops were hit. I have seen this before, when the SNB introduced ...

Position Trading - F it, lets start a thread

Thanks G, that was an interesting take on things

Position Trading - F it, lets start a thread

Yes lots of bombs dropped by some of the best on this forum. Good to see.

Position Trading - F it, lets start a thread

50% of profits from the companies listed on the SP-500 come from outside of the United States. If the dollar soars to the levels you suggest then those companies will be selling much less. The Fed has said that even the current rise in the dollar ...

Dollar vs Disinflation

Thanks Stephen, lots of useful information in there. Will need to have a think about playing the spread, I'm not 100% sure on how I would play the DE2yr Edit - lots of good info in those other posts I just seen too. The rate traders at the CME have ...

Position Trading - F it, lets start a thread

Hi Skfx, I think I have solved the price divergence issue. Here is the weekly chart I can trade image And it is based on the underlying index here: url It now makes sense to me because they are priced roughly the same. I think perhaps I was ...

Position Trading - F it, lets start a thread

I sometimes write notes on ideas months in advance. One of which at the turn of last year was short 2year treasury prices (long yield in otherwords). I will post up a chart why later - though it should be self evident if you scroll out to the weekly ...

Position Trading - F it, lets start a thread

Numbnuts, Hanover; I agree with you both, I see Euro lower, I also see pound lower too. Pairing weak with the strong too. Problem with the Euro is that the news is out, the divergence is going to be bigger than ever and yet the Euro is still above ...

Position Trading - F it, lets start a thread

I'm confused by the Euro. The rate hike in December is almost a dead cert, 75% of traders expect a 0.25% hike. More QE by the ECB is almost a dead cert, and Draghi again said it was happening this December. And yet Euro is not making new lows. That ...

Position Trading - F it, lets start a thread

Tell me about it, the more liquid the currency the worse it is

EURUSD

Disaster waiting to happen. The point is low risk, there should be plenty of free margin. In addition waiting for a few days is not long, try 6-9months without catching a decent trading move which happens and is why the fact you don't have any free ...

Building an equity millipede

Rough week, the endless chop took out some positions, and I prematurely closed some longer positions to cover some costs - my mistake, too short sighted. No real damage to my account, more to my ego. When you aren't in the best of form (grumpy all ...

Position Trading - F it, lets start a thread

Good info, thanks shrike. I have never had any reason to look, but I am going to go back and check some charts now and compare with my UK data feed. The only reason why I checked this time is because no other feed had price hitting that level.

OANDA Discussion

Very wide spread on Oanda today after the retail news @ 1.30pm, nearly 10 pips on EURUSD. Opened my account to find my position had been taken out. It isn't recorded in the spread history (edit correction it is, see below), and I checked my other ...

OANDA Discussion

Strong policy divergence between usd and the euro and gbp last week. Policies are moving in a different direction. FED hike in December is now very likely, BOE putting off rate hike till late 2016 as uk news has been a bit weaker lately, ECB ...

Position Trading - F it, lets start a thread