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robster970 said:
In any event, I still ballsed it up :LOL:
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Can't all be geniuses can we ? ( as Dell might have said )

No disrespect to the other guys but wouldn't it be safer to paper trade the new ideas ?
 
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Sep 5 12:01am GBP BRC Shop Price Index y/y 1.1% 1.0%
12:29am AUD AIG Services Index 42.4 46.5
2:30am AUD GDP q/q 0.6% 0.8% 1.4%
8:00am CHF Gov Board Member Danthine Speaks
8:15am CHF CPI m/m 0.0% 0.1% -0.5%
8:15am EUR Spanish Services PMI 44.0 43.7
8:45am EUR Italian Services PMI 44.0 43.3 43.0
9:00am EUR Final Services PMI 47.2 47.5 47.5
10:00am EUR Retail Sales m/m -0.2% 0.2%
Tentative GBP 30-y Bond Auction 3.22|2.2
Tentative EUR German 10-y Bond Auction 1.42|1.8
1:30pm USD Revised Nonfarm Productivity q/q 1.8% 1.6%
1:30pm USD Revised Unit Labor Costs q/q 1.5% 1.7%
2:00pm CAD BOC Rate Statement
2:00pm CAD Overnight Rate 1.00% 1.00%
 
Pat494 said:
Can't all be geniuses can we ? ( as Dell might have said )

No disrespect to the other guys but wouldn't it be safer to paper trade the new ideas ?
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No pain, no gain....

I'm making changes too - so I'm very focused and wont be posting trades for a few weeks.

I keep going short into a level I want to go long and getting very little for my efforts. I must stop that, well - I THINK I must stop it. Don't know till you try...
 
DionysusToast said:
No pain, no gain....

I'm making changes too - so I'm very focused and wont be posting trades for a few weeks.

I keep going short into a level I want to go long and getting very little for my efforts. I must stop that, well - I THINK I must stop it. Don't know till you try...
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Indeed. I'm finding my European open trades aren't doing quite as well as they were on sim. Normal afternoon stuff is a little below par but nothing untoward. Afternoon discretionary is coming in fits and starts. I too am not posting up that many trades at the moment.
 
September 5th

Asia down slightly, Europe mixed
8:30 – non farm productivity, labor costs

Last month 1349.25 – 1424.24

In respect or Robster:

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As before – this is the 4th week in this range. The of the left most arrow is 1394.25 and yesterdays low was 1394.50
Next low down is 1387.25…

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Set to open in the middle of yesterdays range, so a rotational day likely.

1387.25 also an LVN below value. If we drop from here down to that level, I’ll still be looking for a pop up. Basically, we are still rangebound and will be looking to fade the extremes. Of course, the usual ‘mechanical’ levels are in play.

Shorts – 1424.75, 1422.75, 1416.75, 1413, 1409.25 (YH), 1406.00-.50
Longs – 1397.25 (ONL), 1394.50 (YL), 1387.75 (LVN), 1383 (LVN)

Still don’t like that 1394.50 area though…
 
You know some days when you are watching it very, very intensely and something goes click?

That just happened.
 
Thu Sep 6

2:30am AUD Employment Change -8.8K 5.1K 11.7K
2:30am AUD Unemployment Rate 5.1% 5.3% 5.2%
4:40am JPY BOJ Gov Shirakawa Speaks
8:00am GBP Halifax HPI m/m -0.4% 0.3% -0.7%
10:00am EUR Revised GDP q/q -0.2% -0.2%
Tentative EUR French 10-y Bond Auction 2.53|1.9
11:00am EUR German Factory Orders m/m 0.3% -1.7%
12:00pm GBP Asset Purchase Facility 375B 375B
12:00pm GBP Official Bank Rate 0.50% 0.50%
Tentative GBP MPC Rate Statement
12:30pm USD Challenger Job Cuts y/y -44.5%
12:45pm EUR Minimum Bid Rate 0.75% 0.75%
1:15pm USD ADP Non-Farm Employment Change 142K 163K
1:30pm EUR ECB Press Conference
1:30pm USD Unemployment Claims 369K 374B
3:00pm USD ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI 52.5 52.6
3:30pm USD Natural Gas Storage 40B 66B
4:00pm USD Crude Oil Inventories -4.9M 3.8M
5:30pm EUR ECB President Draghi Speaks
 
Some big announcements today
but a bigger one tomorrow - non farm payrolls
 
6th September

Well Hurrah - we actually look set to open out of yesterdays range.

Which means....

....a bit of opportunity

Well - potentially.

No time for pre-market analysis 2day as the lovely Zoe is suffering after a vaccination and wants daddy.

I will try to sneak back & trade though.
 
Anyone manage to get on? I could have jumped on NQ just under 2800 but I held back out of nervousness. I've got too used to extreme caution being the best approach, I think.
 
Did OK - built positions on the way up to 1430 - took some profits & then added on.

Figured I could diverge from the balance play because the break thru the yearly high should see us to 1430.

On the way up, had a platform failure so ended up exiting everything before getting back in.

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Not a normal day by any means.....
 
The Leopard said:
Anyone manage to get on? I could have jumped on NQ just under 2800 but I held back out of nervousness. I've got too used to extreme caution being the best approach, I think.
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In 20.25 to 22.75 NVPOC after the news dropped. Waited to see the base building and a little confirmation before hopping on the bus. TBH, it looked like a trend day when Europe pushed through quite aggressively to 1412 area before 9am. What with Draghi hinting he is going to eb the saviour of europe without giving specific details, NFP tomorrow and mysterious tagging of 1407 area shortly before 1pm for no reasons it was always going to be like this today.
 
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