I am scalping Crude but I like to have a trade on that I passively manage with resting orders. So, about a month ago I started scale down buying the Yen futures.
Looks like it will take longer to take off as I thought but it has been very profitable because it had so many small gyrations.
I am a buyer every 25 pts down and seller every 25 pts up. Sometimes I let and extra one go or put in a lower scale of buy orders in then the one was let go on the small spikes up (Friday's was a classic).
As a result of this I have a small core position at an average price that is below the market.
I realize that it would have taken less capital to do the opposite, but that is hindsight.
As I read more about the Carry trade I sense that there are enough jumpy shorts or an occasional Yen-positive news to give Yen a little boost and I am confident that this is for the time being is a two sided market with a lower bias short term and higher bias intermediate and long term.
GC
Looks like it will take longer to take off as I thought but it has been very profitable because it had so many small gyrations.
I am a buyer every 25 pts down and seller every 25 pts up. Sometimes I let and extra one go or put in a lower scale of buy orders in then the one was let go on the small spikes up (Friday's was a classic).
As a result of this I have a small core position at an average price that is below the market.
I realize that it would have taken less capital to do the opposite, but that is hindsight.
As I read more about the Carry trade I sense that there are enough jumpy shorts or an occasional Yen-positive news to give Yen a little boost and I am confident that this is for the time being is a two sided market with a lower bias short term and higher bias intermediate and long term.
GC