Chinook's EUR/USD (E/$)Mumblings

As expected today is turning out to be a slow day. I've done two profitable short trades. Probably this is it for me today.

By the way, I've been trying to figure out how to display the "custom icons" in my IE favorites especially the links bar. This thing is so intermittent. For instance, ET has this new little icon for the last 4-5 days. However, it disappeared and got replaced by the standard IE icon. It turns out that IE saves these icons in temp cache files and they get deleted after a while. I found this utility prog "FavOrg 1.2" which digs out the special icons from web sites and saves them in a permanent folder.

http://www.dothan.k12.al.us/vault/

You can also use it to weed out the dead links in your IE favorites.
 
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By the way, I've been trying to figure out how to display the "custom icons" in my IE favorites especially the links bar. This thing is so intermittent. For instance, ET has this new little icon for the last 4-5 days. However, it disappeared and got replaced by the standard IE icon. It turns out that IE saves these icons in temp cache files and they get deleted after a while. I found this utility prog "FavOrg 1.2" which digs out the special icons from web sites and saves them in a permanent folder.

http://www.dothan.k12.al.us/vault/

You can also use it to weed out the dead links in your IE favorites.
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I found that I had to resave the ET links in my favorites to get the little ET icon to show up. Once I did that the little icons stayed.

Cheers,

TRADERguy

P.S. Have fun for the rest of the week. I'll be out of the game because I'm moving. It's time for me to put the computers and monitors in boxes.
 
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I found that I had to resave the ET links in my favorites to get the little ET icon to show up. Once I did that the little icons stayed.

Cheers,

TRADERguy

P.S. Have fun for the rest of the week. I'll be out of the game because I'm moving. It's time for me to put the computers and monitors in boxes.
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I resaved mine too but it vanished after couple of days. For some sites like Yahoo and Amazon, I wasn't able to see their custom icons for a while.

Good luck moving!
 
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As expected today is turning out to be a slow day. I've done two profitable short trades. Probably this is it for me today.

By the way, I've been trying to figure out how to display the "custom icons" in my IE favorites especially the links bar. This thing is so intermittent. For instance, ET has this new little icon for the last 4-5 days. However, it disappeared and got replaced by the standard IE icon. It turns out that IE saves these icons in temp cache files and they get deleted after a while. I found this utility prog "FavOrg 1.2" which digs out the special icons from web sites and saves them in a permanent folder.

http://www.dothan.k12.al.us/vault/

You can also use it to weed out the dead links in your IE favorites.
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Did you try Firefox before? Version 1.0 is due 11/9, but you can use the 1.0 Preview Release for now, it works perfectly:

http://www.getfirefox.com/
 
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I haven't used it before. I'm overall happy with IE now that it has a built in pop up blocker.
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You should try Firefox. You can even install it and use it next to IE. Once you tried Firefox, you don't want to go back to IE, I know.
 
I too was quite surprised that it moved so easily through 1.2350-ish level, but on the back of the disappointing german data and the US tax-reform rumours I guess we can try and rationalize about it.

Yesterday was a good day for me, as I managed to get the range extremes two times, but today I'm more hesitant and have only made two very short scalps. I'm not looking for any big moves in today's market either, although yesterday it was seemingly pegged to the moves in QM a little while.

Leading indicators will probably get more into focus as the year rounds up and popular talk about possible US recession again starts to surface on the radar.
 
What's up with IB EURUSD spot? It's 10 ticks lower than the market!

Edit: It looks like it's stuck but the quotes changed little bit couple of minutes ago.
 
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What's up with IB EURUSD spot? It's 10 ticks lower than the market!

Edit: It looks like it's stuck but the quotes changed little bit couple of minutes ago.
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Yes, I've also noticed that. It was on target yesterday though, so there's something amiss.

Today was a rather slow day with a bit too much trading for my taste, but I was able to get away with 8-9 ticks after commission, so fairly ok anyway. I still got a long bias, but was impressed with some of the calls of wizardtrader - esp. the last trade he made. I got in 1 tick after him on the last one, but took profits after 5 ticks.

I'm having trouble concentrating today, as my programming is getting ahead of me and won't keep out of my head. So much to do - so little time. :)

I think very positively about the growing popularity and changes coming to the EuroFX and the other CME currencies, and I am a very happy camper with no plans for index futures for the foreseeable future. I think the large backing in the spot FX system and the macroeconomic, political environment just suits me perfectly.

Soon we have the presidental election, and I look forward to trading it during the ballot count ... :D
 
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