Any FOREX retail traders still alive after 3/18

...maybe the inclusion of treasury buying was to masturbate the Chinese dick after all. Dont think China loves to see their debt investments devalued by this USD selloff. I make this point because this all will definitely slow down the hunger to continue agressively investing in US debt by foreigners which should give you a clear direction where USD is heading...


Quote from Martinghoul:

Yep, was reading something today along these lines, which suggested that, almost by construction, the rest of the world is massively long downside gamma on USD. Basically, the argument goes that if you have lots of external USD-denominated debt, every time the dollar falls you have less real demand for USD that you need to service the debt.

Now I am trying to think of whether this is a positive or negative for USD here.
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CRAZY MARKETS, THEY SHOPULD REALLY GO BACK TO FIXED EXCHANGE RATES, THESE GYRATIONS ARE SICKENING FOR EVERYBODY. IN THE MEANTIME I AM FORCED TO SPECULATE IN CURRENCIES AND THANKFULLY WAS LONG EURO AND AUSSIE , BUT AFTER BEING SHAKEN OUT OF A BIG CHUNK OF MY POSITION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MONTH
 
Quote from IluvVol:

...maybe the inclusion of treasury buying was to masturbate the Chinese dick after all. Dont think China loves to see their debt investments devalued by this USD selloff. I make this point because this all will definitely slow down the hunger to continue agressively investing in US debt by foreigners which should give you a clear direction where USD is heading...
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Possible, indeed, but the political dynamic is becoming tres complicated. Imagine if you're the Chinese, you got a whole lotsa USTs and there's a bullet bid out there. There's truly a possibility that (unless, of course, this was all properly arranged with them) the Fed really does run into a proper Chinese wall of money getting out of UST and into real assets. I sure hope that it doesn't happen, 'cause the one thing that we don't need right now is the US Trsy not being able to fund itself.
 
I wasn't even watching the market during the time personally but I'm curious to those who were on the wrong side with a S/L. How much slippage did you see?
 
i was at school talking to a buddy of mine and i notice the price upticked by 100 pips im like WTFFFFFFFFF, i try to sell and i cant it kept on saying rates changed, it kept on saying rates changed until i was down 350 pips it was insane. luckly i was able to make it all back today that was by going long in the EURo right after taking that loss.
 
Quote from ivanbaj:

If your alive just say moooola.

There must have been some real carnage yesterday in the FOREX corner.
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I am new to forex, so i was just messing around trying to place a breakout trade (long EUR). For some reason I got confused with forex leverage and operated under the assumption that the leverage 1/20 instead of 20/1.

Next thing I know my 100K account becomes 140K account while I was gone to the bathroom! God bless the Fed! Beginner's luck finally happened to me!
 
Quote from shortie:

I am new to forex, so i was just messing around trying to place a breakout trade (long EUR). For some reason I got confused with forex leverage and operated under the assumption that the leverage 1/20 instead of 20/1.

Next thing I know my 100K account becomes 140K account while I was gone to the bathroom! God bless the Fed! Beginner's luck finally happened to me!
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You put $100k into a trading account without even knowing the basics?
 
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