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It's been a choppy session for me. Overnight short trade turned out to be loser and got chopped up couple times during the session. Unfortunately, I realized the underlying structure of the dat too late but I had two winners towards end of the session that reduced my losses. It was a small loss...

You might find out that the futures prices react faster than the retail FX broker's quotes. This short is local with 12-15 pips stop. I might set a bracket trade and go to bed soon. Good luck. Chinook

Hi Steve, I only trade EUR/USD in FX market and ES/NQ once in a while. I'm relatively new to FX trading so I just want to concentrate on one pair right now. I trade the FX futures and EUR/USD has usually tight spread. Chinook

No, I don't have a retail account. But I also follow the FX spot quotes through Tradestation. From what I read the FX retail firms are like wild west. Futures are all transparent backed by CME. Check this out : http://equivalents.cme.com:443/index.html Chinook

I use Tradestation for charting and IB for brokerage. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/php/main.php Chinook

I shorted at 1.2334 (futures). We'll see what happens. The market depth is showing selling pressure now. Chinook

It's a warm nite in Portland and to cool off, I decided to have some cocktails. My favorite mixed drink (I'm a big time wine drinker) is whiskey+diet coke. I ended up having about 4 stiff drinks--I almost finished half bottle of whiskey. My stress level is back to normal. Luckily Euro is not...

Neal, That's good volume about 1000 FX futures contracts each way. Maybe one day, I'll be able to do such volume for my own account :) About the oil, I meant the intraday short-term trends. Any time there was a spike up/down in oil Euro responded to it. Chinook

I got into some good short trades during the last couple of days. But waiting/hoping for a downward slide, cost me good # of pips. Time to go to the gym and recharge batteries. Tomorrow morning, we should see some more action. Chinook

It's funny I feel the same way. Sometimes I think it's Friday but actually it's Tueday! Good luck to you too. Chinook

trade-ya1, Is it my imagination or do you also think too oil is effecting Euro strongly last couple of days? Chinook

trade-ya1, If the Euro bottom would have fallen out, your average exit price would have been excellent. There was so much turbulence for a while--were you creating these :) I think right now at 1.2330, the market's at its equilibrium. At least for the rest of the day, we should see some...

I get up at 5am. If the market makes a good move and then starts going sideways, I'll stop trading around 9-10 am. Otherwise, I'll continue until 11-noon. Then I take about 2-4 hours of nap. Usually, I don't trade during the Japanese open. If we're around swing levels , I'll put in small...

I completely missed your question--effects of too little sleep. I'm in Portland, OR. Not a good timezone for FX trading! What about you? Chinook

I'm trading from 1.2305. I gave up ~20 pips profit and then now I'm in red. Anyway, what about you? Did you cover? Chinook

Things are not going according to the plan! Euro is making a nice reversal. I kept on pushing up my stop. Turned a reasonable winner into a loser. Oh well *hit happens. Still holding on to shorts... Chinook

Hopefully, we'll see that level today. There's a nice lower highs trendline on today's 1-minute chart! Chinook

Thanks. Do they also give you names? Let us know when the big orders come in Do you have any Eur/$ positions now? Chinook

Do you have some kind of "insider" information? Chinook