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starting to make a little more sense...i see you have -174.00 in accrued interest, which is what i expected was making up the imbalance... now turn the accrued interest column on under the MARKET VALUE panel i'm guessing you were taking large long USD positions against the EURO? that...

looks to me like you are missing the Accrued interest column under the market value panel. right click on the column lables (where it says currency, cash, etc.) and select configure. check the box that says 'accrued interest' and see if that doesn't make sense of your problem.

i think weat is on the LSE DBA and RJA are a couple of etfs (ns) that can get you some exposure...not sure if there is a pure play other than derrivitaves....anyone?

if this is a critique of technical analysis, its the best one i've ever seen...

i don't pretend to know much about japanese culture, but i think sometimes about how strongly they experience shame... in america you have something like the tech bubble, but the risk taking spirit prevails: americans just pick up the pieces and try again - hence you have a 2 year bear market...

try reading dailyspeculations. neiderhoffer has all kinds of unique ways of looking at the markets...

couldn't resist having a go at getting long YEN against CAD this morning, position is in the money once again for an effective 25 point stop (not great with the vol. of this pair)... must go to work now...will be letting the position work itself out of course...

hi nik, i definitely understand your point about the difficulty of trading a system you don't have faith in, but there is nothing tested here. huge winners are a function of the nature of markets, not any kind of entry or exit parameters. i am completely confident the system can produce...

thanks for the idea mogul. i find chasing the momentum leads to getting stopped out on retracements, so i'm playing more of a top picking game, which is why i am getting stopped out so frequently. i will think about your strategy incase i grow the account and find myself trading multiple lots...

thanks for the reply. i have no hard targets per se. i will cover into any kind of capitulation in my direction once i think the position has run long enough. agreed about regret, but there is nothing easy about this methodology. if i don't take my profits until they are giant and always...

lol, i think your right. what do you suggest? broccoli? or cabbage maybe? stopped out of YEN again btw. am going to wait for risk aversion to return before i try this one again.

okay, managed to work myself into a small winner in the YEN again for an effective 20 pips of risk. lets see if i get stopped out of this one too

hi doli, thanks for the question. i mean that as hyperbole... i do intend to realise profits, but not until they grow very large... so for example i might stop out a dozen times getting long the YEN, or short the YM or whatever position...but when i get into a position thats a...

looking to enter some form of long YEN on the sunday night open - in my experience it is a good time to get into positions that don't retrace too heavily. also looking to go long some SPY puts, but I want to wait until we complete a nice bullish pattern to suck in some more buyers.

i'm sure this has been touched on before, but can't find a good thread w/ search. whats the deal with open tick? is the data reliable? whats in it for them? etc.?

you have cut your losses at levels that do insignificant damage to your account and you have >90% winners... care to share which instrument your following? i don't think i've found that one yet...

needless to say, took a small hit again trying to get short the YM. trying again with the YEN tonight...my conviction is still strong that this market is headed lower. will keep trying to nail it with small stops until i hit the big one or blow out trying. death by 1000 stops.

Stopped out at the Tokyo open. Trying again with the YM. 10 point stop. Also marginally in the money for a +/- 20 point stop. If i stop out of this one, calling it quits for the night, will try to get one sold in the AM.

okay, short USD/JPY here (long yen) at 106.25. 10 pip stop at 106.35. position is 10 pips in the money, so effective 20 pip stop at this point. i had been wanting to sell the FED rally for days, but was at work when it happened :( don't want to chase YM short here, because i'm worried...

more likely that the news was already factored into the price...or there is some other underlying reason people aren't buying...if a stock (or market) fails to rally on good news, you might consider it a short imho