Whats tradable at the moment - so many majors just ranging boringly ...
mgergs, you see this is the major problem for a lot of people.
They don't know what to trade. I think you really need to keep your eye on a lot of markets because there is always a "hot" market that is offering quick money.
I never understand people that sit there taking less than perfect setups in the market(s) they trade because that market is not offering anything but still they feel they
should be trading.
Meanwhile, other markets are giving low risk, high reward, high probability setups. But still, you get people that say "oh, I don't trade the Bunds" or "oh, I never look at Wheat" or "I hate Eur/Gbp, as it's always moved so slowly" or "I couldn't trade Natural Gas, I don't know anything about it" .
Do you need to when you are trading the price action? Well, yes, knowing the times it trades, the news that affects it and the way it moves can help but I don't believe its vital. You trade what you see.
The FX majors were always my bread and butter but last year I made a killing in Wheat because that was where the easy money was. The trend was up. The volatility was huge. The pullbacks were minimal. Then this year it was Oil. It comes to a huge level. You have your eye on that level. You take advantage of it.
Gravitate to where the easy plays are. And if you don't know what makes an easy play, what business have you trading FX in the first place?
Right now I have a bullish bias on Cable but the market is not acting as it should. What am I going to do? Sit there and wait for hours, days, weeks for it to line up right and in the meantime do nothing? Try and get involved on the long side and lose money?
Or move over to the Dow and the Bunds which are practically begging to give you money?
Just my opinion.