Adrian Forrest / Profil

New Trading.

I missed the NZ Interest Rate Decision due to travel commitments and have just had opportunity to check now.

I have marked up on a chart how trading up to 2 hours after the Interest Rate Decision using Fibonacci Retracement for a "Sell" entry level and stop loss would have still given 60 - 85 Pips with a 30 Pip Stop Loss.

If you like News Trading it's a very simple technique and its works time after time.
Any questions message me. Adrian

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Have taken my EA back to the drawing board to do some revising. It appears to be working & ok according to plan but I think I can do much better with it..
Basically it places Buy & Sell trades initially and then places trades according to price action (This still needs work).

Attached is a Back Test since 29/12/14 to last weekend on EURUSD M1 Chart which is promising.
Maximum Draw Down is 58% but that's very hard to see as all trades close out together and the biggest loss (Group of closed trades- Buy & Sell) has been 8% of initial deposit. The green equity line is the line that tells the story as every movement up or down represents closure of all trades.

Any ideas on how to improve are welcome, please PM me your thoughts.

ASIC launches investigation into suspect Australian dollar trading ahead of interest rate announcements

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-04/australian-dollar-asic-investigation-interest-rates/6280886

Trading since monday on an ea I put together over Christmas/New Years. Its up around 35% since 12/01/2015.

I close out all open trades around 15 minutes before trading ceases at week end.

It's a live account only trading EURUSD

Roboforex (RHS) has kicked the week off with big fat spreads.

What do you look for when choosing a FX Broker?

FXCM is not the only currency broker slammed by the dramatic Swiss move.

Interactive Brokers (IBKR), an electronic broker that deals with stocks along with currencies, said several customers suffered losses in excess of their deposits with the firm. Interactive said such debits amount to about $120 million, or 2.5% of the company's net worth.

Global Brokers, a New Zealand firm, also said its capital had been wiped out. The U.K.'s Alpari said it's unable to cover client losses and is now insolvent.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/16/investing/swiss-currency-fxcm/index.html?iid=EL


I wonder how many more.

http://www.alpari.com/company-news/posts/2015/january/important-announcement/

Probably old news, but new to me.

What a wild ride, my account just grew 13% in a matter of minutes.
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When i wrote this i was only looking at EURUSD as this is the only pair I'm trading at the moment.