Taking a Cue from the Past

Last night I was doing some much needed spring cleaning in the office. I was going through that box in the closet. You know the one? The one that has been sitting there for years and you say every year you are going to get to it!

I was going through this box and it was like going down memory lane, but one of the items I came across just floored me. Back in my early days of trading the Forex market I use to write out cue cards of areas I was struggling with adjusting to the new market. Prior to driving into currencies I traded the stocks and options entirely on end-of-day trading, and jumping into the hustle and bustle of the Forex market brought a new level of emotional intelligence.

I thought you might enjoy excerpts from my cue cards. I still use them, now they are just internalized!

Cue Card #1: Daily Check List, Set up charts, review economic calendar and news, review the big picture, are the charts reversing or retracing, acceptable reward -risk ratio, why not take the trade, pull the@#$% trigger! An finally, journal results

Cue Card #2

#1 - ALWAYS REVIEW AND PREPARE

#2 - ENTRY DECISIONS ON COMPLETED CANDLES ONLY!!

#3 - SET STOPS CAREFULLY

#4 - DO NOT TRADE AGAINST THE TREND

#5 – RISK LESS IF SECOND RETRACEMENT OF MOVE

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Commodity Channel Index (CCI)

Developed by Donald Lambert, the Commodity Channel Index (CCI) was designed to identify cyclical turns in commodities. The assumption behind the indicator is that commodities (or stocks or bonds) move in cycles, with highs and lows coming at periodic intervals. Lambert recommended using 1/3 of a complete cycle (low to low or high to high) as a time frame for the CCI. (Note: Determination of the cycle's length is independent of the CCI.) If the cycle runs 60 days (a low about every 60 days), then a 20-day CCI would be recommended. For the purpose of this example, a 20-day CCI is used.

For scaling purposes, Lambert set the constant at .015 to ensure that approximately 70 to 80 percent of CCI values would fall between -100 and +100. The CCI fluctuates above and below zero. The percentage of CCI values that fall between +100 and -100 will depend on the number of periods used. A shorter CCI will be more volatile with a smaller percentage of values between +100 and -100. Conversely, the more periods used to calculate the CCI, the higher the percentage of values between +100 and -100.

Lambert's trading guidelines for the CCI focused on movements above +100 and below -100 to generate buy and sell signals. Because about 70 to 80 percent of the CCI values are between +100 and -100, a buy or sell signal will be in force only 20 to 30 percent of the time. When the CCI moves above +100, a security is considered to be entering into a strong uptrend and a buy signal is given. The position should be closed when the CCI moves back below +100. When the CCI moves below -100, the security is considered to be in a strong downtrend and a sell signal is given. The position should be closed when the CCI moves back above -100.

Since Lambert's original guidelines, traders have also found the CCI valuable for identifying reversals. The CCI is a versatile indicator capable of producing a wide array of buy and sell signals.

CCI can be used to identify overbought and oversold levels. A security would be deemed oversold when the CCI dips below -100 and overbought when it exceeds +100. From oversold levels, a buy signal might be given when the CCI moves back above -100. From overbought levels, a sell signal might be given when the CCI moved back below +100.
As with most oscillators, divergences can also be applied to increase the robustness of signals. A positive divergence below -100 would increase the robustness of a signal based on a move back above -100. A negative divergence above +100 would increase the robustness of a signal based on a move back below +100.
Trend line breaks can be used to generate signals. Trend lines can be drawn connecting the peaks and troughs. From oversold levels, an advance above -100 and trend line breakout could be considered bullish. From overbought levels, a decline below +100 and a trend line break could be considered bearish.
Traders and investors use the CCI to help identify price reversals, price extremes and trend strength. As with most indicators, the CCI should be used in conjunction with other aspects of technical analysis. CCI fits into the momentum category of oscillators. In addition to momentum, volume indicators and the price chart may also influence a technical assessment.

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Marketiva is playing games

Time and time again I have noticed that Marketiva is playing the stop loss hunting game. I have 2 exact trade on Marketiva and Northfinance and Marketiva will always hit Stop Loss. One would expect the difference of spread would be the factor here but consider this. Marketiva will always show difference in price between 2-5 pips compared to North Finance and considering the difference in spread is only 1 pip its ..... better let u people decide. Anyway my trade in Marketiva is small. Just playing it for the egold.

Yesterday position still good for now. Added another short of GJ @ 238.50. Target have changed due to low volume of the market. Below are new targets for today.

EJ target: 162.63, 162.23
UJ Target: 120.10, 119.87
AU Target: 0.8305, 0.8290
GJ Target: 237.80, 237.45

Trade at your own risk.

Forex Strategy: Self Awareness

Trading the Forex market I have found to be a great analogy of life. We trade as we live, with our strengths and weaknesses. Our feeling about ourselves, our cultural views on money and abundance, and especially our perception of wealth creep into every aspect of our trading. This is the reason I place such a heavy emphasis on personal self-mastery. Becoming aware of whom we are as an individual, our strengths and weaknesses, and our perspective on life will determine how well we can deploy the correct principals of strategy and risk management and remove the mask of mental poverty in our trading.

Self-mastery is taught within the context of Forex trading, but in reality it is all about identifying who we are as a person. What drives us and what holds us back. Each aspect can help or hinder us from becoming successful traders. Identifying our personal traits is so critical to our trading that it should be brought from the back pages (usually under the last chapters of “trading psychology”) to the first page of our Forex education curriculum.

Mastery of yourself not only will lead to success in the Forex market, but also success in whatever venture one decides to pursue. Forex Journey is my journey and from personal experience I have found that to experience success trading this market you will come to know yourself. This is the primary reason why we teach life and mind skills to our gold and platinum members at Forex Journey. The 90% that don’t succeed fail because they did not acknowledge who they are as a person, which determines who they are as a trader.

Trading currency is hard, but not because of complex strategies or risk management models. Forex is hard because the market is comprised of living, breathing emotional beings that can think and act both independently and as a group. It’s the human element that makes the market what it is. Know the psychology of the market through fundamentals is mandatory, but what most people ignore is that they themselves are the other half of the equation.

It all starts with becoming aware of who you are as a person to fully understand the strength and weakness you will bring to the table as a trader. Becoming aware will lead to an understanding which in turn will lead to overcoming.

Success in the Forex market cannot be borrowed or outsourced. It must be earned piece by piece and the first piece is starts with you.

Happy Trading!!

Free Forex Signal 14 May 2007 6:48pm

Eur/Jpy
Short EJ @ 163.00 or better
SL +30
Target: 162.00, 161.50

Usd/Jpy
Short UJ @ 120.38 or better
SL +30
Target: 119.62, 119.63

Aud/Usd
Short AU @ 0.8350
SL +30
Target: 0.8290, 0.8250

Trade at your own risk

FXEgypt Forex Contest

Been busy for this few weeks and dont have time to trade. At the moment my contest account in up by 1k. Hopefully next week onwards I can concentrate on trading. Currently the highest profit maker is up almost 5x and from Malaysia. Wish I can see him trade. He is good. Up 5x in 10 days.