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Having difficulties deciding short term right now, but for the day it still seems probable of lower lows for EURUSD, higher for USDJPY. Running some big ones on USD daily "strength" would seem interesting, but like things look now - range trading and chop seems like the theme. USDJPY at high...

All the hot air ran out of the JPYUSD after the Big One . The effect on the EuroFX is seemingly range trading as well.

6JH5 ... wow .. 1520+ contract on 0.009593 .. That's a little big! :) edit: and it got hit with around 800 ... !!!! edit2: taken 1000 now ... all gone .. wow.

Two scalps and I'm slightly positive +2 ticks. The first was "accidental" and although it gave a profit at first, I had to do some other stuff and did not set the adaptive stop to profit .. yuck, got stopped at a loss aftert that - but it of course went inte what would have been a profit again...

The charts looks great, but I don't have the right "feel" for any trade right now. I need some more time staring at the book, tape and signals. :) It seems like a down EURUSD day, but we're in a range for now; toggling that 1.3300.

Toggling the 1.3300 .. I should have pinned a medal to my chest - no shirt - already .. I was relaxing, so no good moves - just got that one right too for now. I will begin my telekinetic excercises now. :D (ps. I'm trying to move the earth a little farther from the sun so that I can get...

350+ cap at 0.009597 on 6JZ4 - but not on the 6JH5 .. that goes to show how some play tough today.

I think it will be some 1.3300 toggling - but that is just ... well, not too scientific - it might still be sub 1.3300 by day's end. I'm a EURUSD bear today.

It didn't actually calm my head seeing that I picked the extreme correctly two times in a row ... Now I'm so full that I need another rest, because now I will have to really be calm before trading. :) With this belly full of jalapeños I'm not even contemplating the mountaintop panoramic...

Yes, I'm pretty convinced that the EURUSD will go up some from 60s here ... but that's pretty simplistic - based on JPYUSD charts and EURUSD charts. It does seem like a little range - and some caution, exhaustion after big moves and european close. edit: 60s mentioned here are on 6EH5 -...

That is how the trading bug races through the pants ... uneasy trading and uneasy losses; wretched uncertainties. Indiscriminate trading on back of previous results is bad, I cut the last trade very quickly because I got an incomplete fill - that made me annoyed and I just got out at "first...

I think a reverse is here at mid-low 60s .. I got in for a measly 3 ticks .. it then went a little higher still - of course. I think 60s is a low because of USDJPY correlation. That is in the short-short term of things of course. I couldn't stay away for long - especially when it added insult...

When a move that started off very good only gave +7 and could have given +30 ... that's when the urge to go blasting in reversing again gets flowing through the veins like some trading drug. That's a good sign to take a little break from the screen again, getting tired at watching a lot.

Mostly seconds and minutes on my scalps, then hours on slower times .. day only if I go on some perceived very good position entry.

I watch for short-short term differences - it's like tape-reading with double input - double clues. The single contract is less noisy itself as frequent trades are spread out on both contracts - making direction perhaps be more intelligble. I do this for 6J, not the 6E right now. With 6E, I...

Yes, and that would of course help in judging the performance of the system - the seeding bit I think. Just now I think there are a lot of nice long USD again - I just shorted on high EURUSD. It's a scalp for now - with profitable adaptive tight stops. Contrarian scalper as always. :D...

How about "seeding" the system with directional bias ? As far as I can remember you have had a correct directional bias more often than not. :) Directional bias is quite difficult to get right at any given point of the day. Also, the currencies have a lot of "events" that are even more...

It would be interesting to hear what kind of money management you have set up for this mechanical trading. Is it possible to override, and would you set limits on numbers of trades as well as monetary/percentage limits ?

Anyone want to voice some short-term direction opinions ? I think the dip down to below 1.32 was stop running and panicky - but it also opened up for rounding up a lot of big prizes like the 1.3300 was annihilated. QM has eased some more as has ZG. A little correction is most welcome, as...

Heh, an independent trader from the Merc interviewed on Bloomberg just now said traders were confused about if there was some european intervention. We have seen no signs, nor substantial rumours of this. Funny with rumours - he also said the 5-yr treasury auction would be closely watched -...