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Just an FYI/Reminder, I start classes this Thurs, Sept 8th, 2011 (in a few days :( so sad, summer is coming to an end..)

Courseload isn’t that heavy (I hope?) Advanced micro economics (4th yr course), ancient mythology (1st yr intro course, need it for a humnaities credit), linear algebra part 2 (2nd yr course) and multi-variable calculus (2nd yr course). I should be TAing as well, waiting for my prof to get back to me on that.

School is bordered by the commutes (colored in black), the rest is time at home which will be spent on homework problems or trading. I’ll be adjusting my sleeping cycles to accommodate waking up early to trade london session. It’s only a tentative schedule, I need to confirm what my hours will be for TAing the office hours and seminars. Also to determine the courseload, to adjust how much time I need for homework/reading.

The most likely scenario that will happen once school starts. I won’t be posting trades (if I even make them) on a daily basis, they will come at the end of the week with the FX weekly analysis. Also, I don’t know if I’ll be able to cope with school and trading at ths same time since in the past, my marks usually drop a few % if I’m stressed from trading.

September 3rd, 2011 – FX Weekly Analysis

Don’t really have any status updates to state as I said most of it in the Part 2 analysis posted 2 days ago. Monthly forecasts will no longer be done. It’ll just be weekly FX analysis from now on. I’m thinking of cutting H1 charts out of it as well, because WTF does H1 have to do with the week. Only reason why I like to show H1 sometimes is to show how it closed on Friday IF it’s near a S/R or TL, like AUD/USD is right now, it’s sitting on the weekly and daily TL.

Here is the updated results for this week’s forecast along with next week’s forecast.

Mixed – Monthly Chart

Mixed – Weekly Chart

Mixed – Daily Chart

Mixed – H4 Chart

Mixed – H1 Chart

Commentary on this week’s Price Action

USD/CAD – Like AUD/USD, not sure if it USD was strengthening or not. Consolidated for most of the week until Friday when it bounced off the bottom TL of the flag. I googled flag formations and it appeared that I drew them wrong previously, it’s a flag pole with the flag formed using 2 parallel lines as the flag, not a pennant which I previously drew.

AUD/USD – Always surprising me, USD strengthened this week or.. maybe it was just EUR weakening, not sure. Might’ve been EUR since all the EURs went down. But this one didn’t follow suit, I need to start figuring out the fundamentals on Australia’s economy to figure out the relationship with USD and the world.

GBP/USD – This pair as seen with the 3 EUR pairs all tanked thru out the week.

EUR/USD – Finally broke the upward TL on H4, forming a new downward TL. So going to be riding this down until it breaks the TL or meets some heavy support/demand. Which will likely be the case given the past monthly candles.

EUR/GBP – I thought the upward channel would be formed, which it did except it’s just a little wider than anticipated. I should’ve followed previous channel formations. After breaking up, it pulled back to where it currently is, which is still higher than the low.

EUR/JPY – Surprising again, I guess the middle TL that I previously drew is irrelevant now. Also, like EUR/USD the H4 upward TL is broken and new downward TL formed.

Both EUR/GBP and EUR/JPY should’ve just been correlated with EUR/USD and followed the same direction, if not EUR/GBP then at least EUR/JPY shou

Technical Forecast

USD/CAD [Long] – Given that I’ve drawn the proper bullish flag formation now, I like this going long especially after Friday’s breakout off the bottom TL of the flag.

AUD/USD [Unsure] – It’s sitting on weekly and daily TL right now, so I’m not sure and don’t want to forecast this pair this week.

GBP/USD [Short] – Continuing the previous trend and we’re going down, correlating play this week.

EUR/USD [Short] – Following the newly formed H4 downward TL until it breaks.

EUR/GBP [Long] – This is one EUR pair that likes to go opposite, and with the previous bounces, this should go up, might go down to support levels though that’s always a possibility.

EUR/JPY [Short] – Following the newly formed H4 downward TL until it breaks. Or at least till we get to the bottom daily TL of this downward channel and either bounce or hug it.

That’s all for this week, it’s a long weekend by the way. Monday is Labour Day for the US and Canada so US and CAD banks will be closed + markets are closed on Monday in North America. So I wouldn’t expect any good trending till Tuesday. Expect some sideways or manipulated bullshit until the holiday is over. But once the week starts, take note that everyone is coming back this week. Since the summer holidays are over, I’d expect liquidity to increase in the coming months since all those hedge fund managers are back from vacation and ready to hit it off. Also, last quarter of the year usually results in people trying to end their year in a profit. So expect aggressive plays.

End of Week Trading Results – Aug 28th – Sept 2nd, 2011

From Day 1, ground zero of my very first trade in binary options on StartOptions back last yr on Oct 20th, just a few days before my Birthday too lol. I won that trade too by fluke. Back then I didn’t even trade FX I had no idea how FX worked and what binary options were. Pretty simple concept though, call and put options. Except back then, I was trading hourly expiries. From Oct 20th, 2010 to Sept 1st, 2011, almost a full year of exposure to binaries you’d think I’d be an active pro by now. But in that time period, I only traded a total of 55 days. This is my excuse for not profiting beside the pro’s in Binary Options. Quite a few people I know profit a couple thousand everyday. But they’ve been actively trading everyday for at least 6 months consecutively and constantly tweaking their strategies. I complained about my inactivity to one of them and they noted something, I’m a student! I’m not supposed to be active, hence I shouldn’t be pressuring myself to catch up to their footsteps.

If within 10 months, I only traded 55 days, that’s an average of 5.5 days a month. Which is basically 1 week of trading per month. Which means, a strategy may work this week, then next month, diff liquidity issues in the market or whatever, requires a diff strategy. It’s hard to say. Something I may be looking to develop in the future is a system. A system is a systematic list of things to go thru before making a trade. Whereas, I currently employ a strategy which is.. “look for this set up, and you should be fine”, basically, relies more on myself than actual indicators/non-biased things.

Anyways, just wanted to talk about that briefly since I’ll be going back to school on Sept 8th, and from that point onwards, I will be inactive again. But, the FX weekly forecasts will continue to come + any trades that I make. Onto my P/L for this week:

BBinary
Win Ratio = 7/14 = 50%
P/L =-$35.75

TradeRush
Win Ratio = 38/71 = 53.52%
P/L =-$16.75

Since Thursday was pretty shitty in binaries and since I wasn’t home on Friday, no new trades were made since Thursday’s Live Trades update, I just compiled the stats for the week and posted them now.