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I will be looking to short the EUR next week. Central bank interventions tend to do little to correct fundamental issues and big market players are well aware of this.
I've added a short GBPUSD and USDJPY positions. I have a small long AUDJPY position. Lastly, I have a short ETF index position I am still holding from a couple of weeks ago.
Markets have been largely uneventful today. If current trends persist I should clean up pretty well.
Charts look oversold, but market is driven by panic about fundamentals. The panic is well justified as it is becoming more and more apparent that western economic rebound is solely due to government spending. Business credit and public lending is as tight as it has ever been. We could be headed for a double dip. If there is a double dip, the amount of spending governments will have to do will be much larger than the first time around. There will be alot of political resistance and indecision about further government subsidies. This could lead to another depression.
People are taking some profits off the table here, which is understandable, BUT I am still a big USD bull.
The markets have not had a single back to back positive days in a couple of weeks. The Eurozone is as screwed up as ever. As the New York Times reported today 1 out of every 5.5 $ paid to workers comes from government as opposed to private industry. The US is fukced and I am going to exploit it as much as I can. Does destruction of society in US mean that stocks can't rally and make new all time highs? Oh no. What this means is that the US market will have more and more seizures (those lovely 3 sigma moves) while the US consumer becomes irrelevant to world economic growth. The only worrisome part is that the US may not go down peacefully like the USSR, but with a big bang.
Enough babbling: Down to business. Yesterday I was short GBPUSD and USDJPY and future indices while and long AUDJPY. I was fortunate enough to have my GBPUSD and USDJPY positions hit their targets. The markets have retraced since the over night lows. This has caused me to enter a short on the GBPUSD again. The USDJPY barely reached its target on the short side so for the time being I am not planning on reopening a position in that pair. Instead, I have gone long USDCHF. I don't know where or when the retracement will end, but the larger the retracement the more I expect to buy USD and short european currencies.
I had a pending order to go long AUDJPY off the lows but was now triggered by a few pips. That was a mistake, but I am still holding onto my small AUDJPY position which is acting as a partial hedge to my index position.
Here is a link to a sub account I have which tracks my performance trade by trade:
Click on it several times if you get an error at first. There is some some of problem with myfxbook.
The equity curve does not include trades taken on EFT indices since those trades I execute with a non MT4 broker which myfxbook does not track.
Lastly, note that the drawdown is irrelevant here since this is a highly leveraged account. I goal is to keep the maximum break to valley NAV drawdown on my overall portfolio to less than 20%. So far the NAV max peak to valley drawdown of my portfolio has been around 10%.
Not a big change in the FX market. As mentioned yesterday, the market "rally" has indeed turned out to be just some profit taking. As I write, the EUR is slipping and will likely go to around 1.2 over night.
Same fundamental problems persist.
I still don't have a direct EURUSD position because of potential central bank interventions and currency manipulation. I have the exact same positions as yesterday and I am going to add a long JPY position soon as I see the flight to safety theme continuing.
I was closing my index ETF short position today, but when I saw that the market wasn't able to hold the gains when it opened, I decided to stay put and wait. Turned out to be the right decision.
What a day... Bad economic news (GDP, Unemployment claims) yet the market is able to rally 300+ points. Bahahahaha.
I closed my EFT index position with profit (was much bigger yesterday!). My short GBPUSD and USDCHF positions were stopped out as well as a short USDJPY position I had. The good news is that I was able to go long GBPUSD this morning and my AUDJPY hit its target, so while over all I lost money today, it was much less than it could have been given my positioning...(around 2%).
I am going to consider going long ETFs (nasdaq) maybe on monday. I will also be going short the EUR if it raise a bit further since I strongly believe the EUR will sooner or later continue its down trend.
I will start closing down FX positions I have because I don't want any exposure to gaps over the weekend. The EUR shorting will have to wait until next week (unless we see a large spike up during the asian session today in which case I will probably just not be able to resist shorting the hell out of the EUR).
Longs
Monthly summary for first four months of the year (jan through april) for longs only account attached below. Note that this is for long trades only and as you can see the first four months of the year have not been particularly good to go long on any currency pair. None the less, I have managed to keep the account pretty flat even after taking a very large number of long trades.
Shorts
Same as above except for short trades only. The last four months have been paradise for shorting anything in FX. That's where I have grown the account mostly.
Oanda will make similar reports available for May on Tuesday of next week. I will be sure to post those results as well. I'll give you a little hint though .. the results have been spectacular this month.
InteractiveBrokers Report
This is the last post containing the third and last account I have with which I trade everything _except_ forex.
The equity curve toward the end shows the decrease in realized profit I had to take today because I was wrong about the market having had enough of a bounce on Wednesday since it had given back all of the pre-market gains. Can't always get it right I guess (unless you are one of the 6 biggest banks in which case you don't have a single losing day all quarter because you have license to pick people's pockets!)... still May has been an exceptional month.
Not much to report today. My long GBPUSD closed with profit which exactly offset the loss I took on the USDJPY, so a flat day.
Not an easy market today. I am just glad I did not lose money. I have no open positions on any of my three accounts.
Let's see what next week brings.
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The FX account is composed of two sub accounts. One for long trades only, the other for short trades only.
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