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A lot of other bloggers who are much more qualified than I am have been writing about their predictions for the markets in 2008. I’m going to as well, mostly so that at the end of the year I can look back and see if I was right or wrong. As I’m not as qualified […]
Filed by Popeye at January 14th, 2008 under Finance, FOREX, Trading
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I’m a little late on the blog posting, though the Automated Trading Championships for 2007 finished just before christmas, I ended up 35th, which I’m actually fairly happy with, my main goal was to be profitable (which I was), and next year maybe I can work on a better EA.
I had a guy ask me […]
Filed by Popeye at January 3rd, 2008 under FOREX, Trading
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I’m patiently waiting for the USDCAD to continue it’s downward spiral, I’m happy enough to wait. There’s a good chance it may still go up beyond the 23.6 retracement, I’m hopeful it doesn’t for my ATC chances.
I’ve looked at some other pairs to trade and have today opened a couple of small positions on EURJPY […]
Filed by Popeye at November 14th, 2007 under Finance, FOREX, Trading
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I recently read a story along the lines of this one, though this one (you might need a free registration, in which case bugmenot is your friend) is much more comprehensive.
It’s about the quants making a mess with subprime mortgages then cashing out of some equity positions to make up for their losses.
Filed by Popeye at November 4th, 2007 under Finance, Trading
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I’m currently taking part in an automated trading competition that is run by MetaQuotes and have been slowly rising up through the ranks, today I finally made it to #1! I’m not under any illusions that I probably won’t last there (still 2 months to go), though I’m quite happy that my EA (Expert Advisor) […]
Filed by Popeye at October 30th, 2007 under Finance, FOREX, Trading
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In a word, UP.
A friend who originally got me started on trading sent me a message about how he thought there was going to be a big AUD retracement when it reaches approx 0.92. I’ve told my wife a couple of times recently that I expect the AUD to get to par with the USD… […]
Filed by Popeye at October 26th, 2007 under Finance, FOREX, Trading
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Via Seeking Alpha, I just read an interesting post by David Merkel about how Governments go about doing currency intervention… I found it to be particularly informative considering the USD isn’t doing so well and they’ll probably intervene soon.
There are rules to effective currency interventions. There may be more than four, but here are […]
Filed by Popeye at October 1st, 2007 under Finance, FOREX, Trading
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It’s been a while so I thought I might post my current trading status.
Simply put, I’m down. I was a LONG way infront though was quite heavily invested (sucks when you can’t stick to your rules heh) and lost it all and more on a pullback above par. I’ve got a short position on USD/CAD […]
Filed by Popeye at September 29th, 2007 under Finance, FOREX, Trading
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You may have noticed that I have written SFA about trading for a while now. My main reason for it is that, well… I haven’t been trading. I got a little side tracked by proper work and after repairing my computer I never got around to setting up my trading accounts on the new system.
I […]
Filed by Popeye at August 19th, 2007 under Finance, FOREX, Trading
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Bollinger bands are pretty cool, however one thing that is hard to judge is the exact historical difference in the width between the bands. Here’s a quick indicator that I created a while back for Metatrader 4 which shows you the distance between the bands. To install it, copy it into experts/indicators, open it in […]
Filed by Popeye at June 20th, 2007 under Finance, FOREX, Trading
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