The ACD Method

Quote from running_bare:

Holy fk, the volatility was incredible at 14:00 (FOMC)

With the head fake, a lot of a/cs got cleaned out esp those with stop losses

For sure, if you have a hard stop loss, it's getting taken out or margin called, only to reverse in your favor when you've been stopped out

Running & gunning those stop losses. LOL

Currencies were tamer then I thought. I'm long GBP/JPY and had bids and offers out trying to catch some wicks and didn't get crap.
 
I took my profits and closed out everything this morning.

The last couple of meetings have been hard on my account, to put it mildly, so I decided to be chicken and play safe this time.
 
Quote from running_bare:

Holy fk, the volatility was incredible at 14:00 (FOMC)

With the head fake, a lot of a/cs got cleaned out esp those with stop losses

For sure, if you have a hard stop loss, it's getting taken out or margin called, only to reverse in your favor when you've been stopped out

Running & gunning those stop losses. LOL

you should use this to your advantage should be selling the wings and look for a reversion trade. I disagree market makers are stop hunting they have to take whatever positions are thrown at them and hedge/offset. They are looking at their aggregate book. I think its the best time to trade personally. :)
 
Quote from kinggyppo:

you should use this to your advantage should be selling the wings and look for a reversion trade. I disagree market makers are stop hunting they have to take whatever positions are thrown at them and hedge/offset. They are looking at their aggregate book. I think its the best time to trade personally. :)

Yeah if you have good core positions this is like free money. I overestimated vol though so my fishing line came up empty. Remember the pendulum I was talking about.
 
Quote from Maverick74:

Yeah if you have good core positions this is like free money. I overestimated vol though so my fishing line came up empty. Remember the pendulum I was talking about.

I think the high volatility is more forgiving, ie you can be wrong by a lot and the vol/movement saves you. You see that over time after getting your ass kicked a few hundred times. Moment of silence for all those short the NQ....:)
 
Quote from kinggyppo:

I think the high volatility is more forgiving, ie you can be wrong by a lot and the vol/movement saves you. You see that over time after getting your ass kicked a few hundred times. Moment of silence for all those short the NQ....:)

Yeah the slow bleed is much worse. Or at least feels that way.
 
Quote from kinggyppo:

where do you think zb will head from here with the 10 billion taper how do you think this will affect zb? selling off here.

Well, I've had a confirmed negative number line for a while so my guess is down!
 
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