I'll take that as a no. LOL. Guys, the selloff in risk is not going to be in equity land, it's going to be in these emerging currencies. WATCH THEM!
The Peso is breaking down. Turkey is getting slammed. Aussie is tied to China. South Africa is taking it on the chin.
So, the update in FX land is, we have confirmations to the upside on USD/MXN, GBP/AUD, USD/TRY and we just last week got the neg confirm on USD/JPY.
Mav, I must confess one weakness I have is not identifying trading opportunities from the vast amount of news I consume. Definitely need to work on that.
Two questions. Firstly, do you think the move still has legs? I think the poster child of developing countries currency issues related to tapering has been the Indian Rupee, going back to the time that Raghuram Rajan was appointed Governor of the RBI, so have we missed the boat here?
Secondly, any reasons for choosing MXN and the Rand? I know you have been following USD/TRY, for some time, but why these 2 and not, say, IDR or the like. For example THB is down some 15% from its high of 28+. I didn't have the Oanda account then and IB did not offer it unfortunately.
60 cents...
It depends on the product. For stocks, I use the ATR from the low to high. For futures it's the 24 hour period.
Here's how I have understood it and seen some really good results. This is for futures only.
I calculate the previous 10, 20 and 30 days average daily range (24 hour session). Then I take the min and max of those 3 values and discard the middle one. Then for the current day, add those 2 values to the current price to get the ADR high limit and subtract from the current price to get the ADR low limit for the day. As price makes new intraday highs/lows, the "ADR limits", as I call them, move closer to each other. When we have a confirmed A, the ADR limit almost always gets hit.
See attached chart for today's CL action. Just happened to be a confirmed intraday A up in CL today.
Hope this helps:
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