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& will ya lookie here...the short gby/jpn has finally turned posi for me......should prolly bail now while I have the chance....& now if gold would only come back down I'll be doin much better.....still tho, so far, best month ever for me.
& Daiello....that there is a real nice double ya got there.
Seems the newbie's tend to do quite well eh....good goin!!
What do we have here.....another Raider fan?
Kewl!!!
I just prolly threw away some dough but I just took'em on a few bets this wknd vs the winless fish.....straight up +4
& a 2 pk parlay....Oak ML @ +185 w/the over @ 41.5...pays 4.44.
I'm thinken the parlay prolly wont hit so I'm really bankin on them coverin the 4 pts....I put 50% more on the +4 so if that covers & the parlay don't I'll still be up a few bux.
If you are ever in town & wanna go to a game let me know....been holdin season tix since they moved back home....1st deck behind their bench on about the 40....row 29....which is just in front of the 2nd deck overhang....so if it rains...we do get a lil wet.
Well the good news is gbp/jpy is comin back down here for me......BUT gold decided ta run away at the same time.....Grrrrr.
& yes, I survived all my calls from last night.....& actually made a few $$$ thx to gold.....so I got extra cocky today & decided ta short gold & go back to my original call on Sun nite.
Gotta run...just wanted to do quick post & run here....I may try & take up some bandwith here later on tonight if time allows.
Cheers!!
MG's aint too bad....at least that's my 2 pennies worth.
I best tone it down here so I have a few posts left for manana....I forgot about my 9p pst IHUB posting curfew...lol
Looks as if after this 1 I have 9 left for manana.
OK...sign'n off for the nite....& when I awake manana....somethin is tellin me I'll be under the demo bridge lookin for some 4x breakfast scraps :0
Ni Tzzzzzzz Gentz...& of course to any gentettes if they exist on this board? Don't think I've yet to run across any around these parts? In my fantasy 4X mind I am always of the belief that there's at least a few lady lurkers out there....but then I always seem 2 awaken to a buncha scrapy bearded 5 o'clock shadowed 4X Warriors....& pls no 1 tell me u r in your underwear....that's just simmply waaaay 2 much 4 me 2 handle :0
Cheers!!
yeah but if Jester is right & the "Fix" is on....SMA's schmessMA's ;)~
On a serious note....I'm tendin to agree w/u there....my gut is still sayin b4 the Fri close we'll be seein a correction based purely on the technicals......as always tho....all bets r off pending any fundi related anouncements.
Aint there already windows based 4x platforms? I could swear I've been asked that option b4 (java or windows) when playin around on various platforms....I think MG has a Windows option if I aint mistaken.
Well if my 1st hunch on the week is remotely close (gold being overbought & due for a downard correction) we'll both get margined out...& indeed it very well maybe yours truly who gets that dubious honor b4 u....I can't stop usin whatever margin I get back ASAP....& it's all goin right there to the L gold.....goin w/my gut & doin the opposite...works well for me at both the roulette & baccarat tables so y not 4X? :0
Keepin it in the fam as the ol' sayin goes....can't help but wonder if Gates has any Southern roots? :0
& apologies in advance 2 any Southerner's out there who may have taken offense to that 1....jus playin 'round witchya's.
Billy's answer to Buffets Bear Stearn's move.....keepin up w/the Jones'
& u can add a lil more gbp/jpn short @ 233.008...jus usin what I'm gettin back at this pt.....at this rate I'll be bust w/in an hr or 2 @ the most.....either that or every1 above me is goin down ;)~
W/jus 2 days left on the month I'm officially closin my serious mentality & now goin for broke. I'm pleased w/how it's been goin for me over the last 3-4 mos...think my monthly ave roi is around 17-20%...not bad for bein a rook if I say so myself.
So all I'm doin now is removin all sl's...so lookout below...lol
Here's what I still got runnin (all under water)
L USD/CHF @ 1.17145
L gold (yes, I said L gold...lol) @ 728.420
S gbp/jpy @ 232.393 & 232.953
& when I wake up manana....depending on how things have progressed (or the lack thereof) I'll simply lay it all on the line w/1 or 2 of the best lookin pix at the time....assuming of course I have any ammo left :0.....aww never mind...screw it...I just margined myself out w/77 more units of gold.....y not...peddle 2 da the metal baby....lol
& Quasi.....I hear ya w/re to Oanda....I pretty much forced myself to get as cozy as I can w/it.....wasn't e z...but at least now I feel as if I have 1/2 a clue w/it...lol I still think there's many other platforms out there that are far superior.....guess it's all relative tho to whose on the other end of screen....2 each his own as the sayin goes.
BOL 2 all over the final 48 hrs....may the best Hack win ;)~
Quasi...are you in this boards contest this month? If so, what handle r u goin by if ya dont mind me askin?
TIA!
That one is a lil tougher to call....especially after hearing Greenspan's comments on 60 mins last Sun about it.
But again, looking @ all the dollar pairs, one has gotta be thinken that at least a modest correction is coming due...& if not, then the US economy is gonna be in for a harsh Q4 imo.
I did just short the Aus/USD @ 8725 & now down there 11+ pips so pls take what I say w/the smallest grain of salt :0
As for me, I think from here on out what I'm gonna do for the rest of the month is try & short a few of the more popular pairs vs the dollar placing very tight sl's on'em all the while hoping to hit a few big moves. Now how dumb was that....divulging my strat w/jus a few days left for the monthly comp....guess I want an excuse if I aint able to gain some ground.....lol
It's all good ;)~
& BOL 2 u on that euro short...if not for Greeny's comments, I would be more positive on the short side there....it's just real tough to make a call against him knowing what he knows & the sources of info he's privy to.
Cheers!!
The Aus goin nuts vs the dollar.....from approx 5a pst til now it's spiked 100+
Damn if I dont wanna short that now as well.....will watch it for a spell 4 some weakness...& jump on it for a short if it looks like it wants to begin a retrace.
I'll take a stab @ it.....aint it typically that Tue & Wed are known as being the busiest days for all the various reports to be released? Of course not that all reports come out on these 2 days....jus the lions share thus making it decent days to play those events.
Also, does not the volume (& volitility) tend to increase on these 2 days...more so than Mon, Thurs & Fri's? Having said that, I'm now wondering if Tue & Wed combined have more volume & volitility than Mon, Thu & Fri combined?
Would be an interesting thing ta look up.
OK...that 1 sure dint work...sl'd out w/1G loss....lets try it again :0
I think itza great short on the high end of each channel these days.
& wadda ya know....both my positions last night ended up closin in the green....long usd/cad for a few pips....& I feel lucky to have gotten oudda that 1 as I did. & the gold short brought it home for me too.
& as mentioned, I think that gold chart looks all set for another short right here @ 728.750....just took it. might try & hold it for the rest of the week if I can manage to hold it thru any possible run-up's.
& does any1 here claim 2 know Berudu & or Pigtrader? Just wanna know cuz I think it'd be nice to hear what strat(s) it is that they've been usin. Both of'em have been pretty consistent thru the month ranking high up there all throughout.
& the CAD sure looks as if it wants ta sl me out & fast....only a matter of time me thinks....bad trade Worn...bad trade!!
Now I think I'll go make another mistake by letting anger get ahold of me.....gonna go short gold overnite here & put my demo $$$ where my demo mouth is :0
OK...lights out....really!! lol
Ni TZzzzzzzzzz
'n now I think I just made a bad call for my overnite pick....went long USD/CAD @ 1.00395 & wouldn't ya know it...after watchin for over 20 mins channel in a 3-4 pip range...the moment I enter the trade it tanks on me by approx 15 pips w/in 1-2 mins...lol
It's come back some for me here but me thinks I may get sl'd out on that 1 @ 1.0016...my tp is @ 1.0046...it was 1.0060 but after reevaluating it b4 I turn in I fugure I best get out if the opp presents itself.....11 pips away from the tp & 20 away from the sl here @ 1.0035.
Oh well...if I get sl'd it'll wipe out approx 50% of gains on the day.....e z demo come, e z demo go...lol
Catch up w/ya's manana.
Cheers!!
Berudu & Pig.....
(so who r those dudes n e ways?)
knock knock!!
Display Name Number of Trades Volume of Trades (USD) Maximum Drawdown Sharpe Ratio Portfolio Return (%)
berudu 396 240,100,922 -22.10 0.21 68.90
pigtrader 121 71,647,674 -16.38 0.31 50.13
raiderdad 76 13,854,338 -2.37 0.59 32.08
daiello 93 78,644,849 -18.57 0.11 27.34
Anderl 27 290,178 -9.02 0.23 26.27
fx-blackjacktrader 1431 173,583,224 -18.54 0.09 10.95
Capitalist 6 4 0.00 -0.11 0.32
surveybeta 4 4,001 -0.19 -0.05 0.25
TexasRedGT 19 4,935,839 -20.52 0.01 0.10
sterlingrolls 8 247,778 -0.56 -0.21 -0.31
twister95 451 77,839,876 -1.02 -0.37 -1.47
jjshah 20 4,927,279 -2.47 -0.18 -1.93
turbokaos 186 86,193,301 -6.91 -0.07 -5.33
FXWiz 88 200,853,330 -86.38 -0.15 -9.29
ryjo2 0 0 -16.94 -0.05 -10.69
Jester_Vandalay 744 26,972,092 -41.25 -0.02 -20.44
edgardo rivera 604 30,281,487 -7.75 -0.51 -23.44
amminemma 105 11,638,279 -34.08 -0.16 -23.91
zozem 652 196,620,053 -15.47 -0.57 -38.93
Relentless 4 4,997,727 -27.00 -0.41 -70.52
hc_cheung 3042 962,881,683 -129.96 0.08 -73.96
AtaGlance2 80 13,623,237 -46.54 -0.21 -81.08
*Statistics reflect account status as of September-25-2007 00:00
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Was just lookin at that 1.....I gotta say I'm leanin to the other side of that call. Even tho the trading week aint much more than 1 day old now (& putting aisde the early legs it showed on the open) the trend has been down. As mentioned on Sun before the open, I base this call on nothing more than the technicals. Since mid August it's gone ballistic & one has ta think it's overdue for a correction here.....it has simply gotten way ahead of itself here imo.
There's another part of me that's hopin it'll settle back down just so it'll help to restore a lil more confidence in the US economy....which the latest figures are reporting a modest rise in consumer confidence. Guess that can be attributed to the 1/2 pt cut & along w/the belief that there'll be more to follow by the eoy.
If it don't retrace here as I'm kinda hopin (no trades on the books yet....tho I did channel trade it today fairly well on both sides) then it may be an early warning sign that we Yankee Doodles may be arriving sooner rather than later to that dredded destination in our collective handbaskets :0
BOL 2 u on that 1....but I hope u wont mind if I aint rootin 4 ya....lol
& in closing....in general, I think the greenback is due for a lil rally here vs all the pr's...not that I'm a dollar Bull long term these days.....I just think it's been oversold the last month + & we're due for a correction. But pls, don't ask me how much & or how long it'll take....I've been known ta blow a priddy mean smoke stack dontcha know ;)~
Ni TZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Gold....
lookin @ da weekly (30 min) & speakin purely from a t/a viewpoint....is it not lookin as if it shoud retest the 710-708 level or thereabouts? Pretty much where it opened a week ago.
If we continue to see follow thru w/$$$ flowin into the markets post rate cut me thinks gold is in for a retrace here.
Of course all bets are off pending other fundi developments...looks like we have a few varoious r/e #'s being reported on this week.
& to those who plan on payin the price today....welcome to PYPS (hey...that's damn close to the accronym for Pip...lol).
As for me....a lil R'n R watchin some MLB & Pigskin.
GO TEAM!!
Cheers!!
It's gotta be pretty damn hard havin ta sit there squeezin soo hard w/out even havin a lid to help support yourself with....& w/such the large shell to contend with ta boot...guess that's why u like readin the paper there....it's killen 2 birds w/one stone as it appears that it also aids w/your balance. :0
Best of luck there on the b/e goal....hopefully you don't also have a sister who'll be expectin a kiss ;)~
Comin into the Clubhouse turn &
I gotta say....over the last 3-4 months I've yet to see so many folks in the green....now we're talkin...Nice!
Oanda platform FYI in case anyone was wonderin.....
looks like the typical end of market week maintenance.
AndresS
OANDANIAN
Member # 10052
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posted September 19, 2007 11:26 AM
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Nice lil gold retrace this AM.....perhaps Goldilocks is indeed alive 'n well?
So u r sayin Goldilocks is alive 'n well? lol
a Kudlow fan eh? Well FWIW....I think it's the "greatest story never told" ;)~
I'm punchin out til later on tonight.....
& I'll leave ya with
L aus/usd @ 8619
&
L cable @ 2.0096
Cheers!!
No worries....jus yankin your chain....as family tends ta do from X 2 X ;)~
+ repostin newsworthy stuff like that aint such a bad idea.
At times I don't have the time to read the entire board...thus I tend to miss some good informative posts....kinda nice to not feel as if I have ta go diggen thru all of the posts to find the one's that really count. So by all means, keep those echoes comin..comin...comin...comin ;))
I tend to agree w/u there.....& as I was sayin ystrdy....somethin is tellin me that the UAE wont wanna be dissen Uncle Sam too much as they've builden up a storm over the last few yrs (even Da Donald is over there too) & me thinks it may be too much too fast...we shall see just exactly how deep their oil pocekts really are. Having said that, sure as he!! wish we Yanks could try a lil harder to reduce our dependence on that particular commodity...they wanna try & put the squeeze on us....we should push right back just as hard.
Is there a Saudi echo in here?
News so 'good' it's fit ta post twice :0
Or maybe it's the mantra "we shall never forget" ? lol
& taken out hard.....& approx 6-7 hrs ahead of the t/a cycle....wonderin what the overnight news was from across the pond? Somethin had to make it jump like it did....hard to imagine it was all based solely on t/a.
Way ta hang w/it Jester...& I see where you've been rewarded w/1st place for that call.....nice!! Now the ? is.....are ya gonna sit on your thrown or be the workin King? ;)~
I'm still eyein the aus/usd long....actually took a long position last night b4 goin to bed @ 8595 & hit it for 44 pips....$987.55.
It sure looks to me as if it wants to takeout the late July ath.
Other than that...I'm havin a lil trouble tryin ta spot another good opp or 2.....Helicoptor Ben sure has made it tuff w/that buzz cut.
Damn if ya dint hit the 3 hr high w/your entry there ;)~
Bearin any fundi developments w/in the next 12 hrs or so U may have ta wait for the cycle here to complete itself....based soley on t/a itself.
GL w/it....indeed it aint e z bein green.
1st the Saudi's (gee..& I thot they were our "friends") & wadda ya wanna bet a few other middle eastern countries will follow the Saudi strat here?
Could we be seeing a team effort in the making here by the mid-eastern blocks & their allies w/this strat to further weaken the greenback? Not a bad idea when ya think about the lines being drawn in the sand these days w/re to nukes in that region.
Not so sure tho the rest of the mid east contingent has enuff power/clout to pull this off? Are not the Saudi's the strongest player in this region w/the rest being nothing more than a adolescent nat on a camels back...so to speak ;)~
I always was suspect of the idea of the Saudi's being thot of as our friends/allies. & this is the thanks we get for having their backs in the day of papa Bush....the ONLY reason they were friendly w/Uncle Sam was simply for our thirst of oil..plain 'n simple....wadda joke.
& I did think it was awesome of Guiliani to not accept the 10 billion (it was billion & not million if memory recalls) they wanted to give him for the 9/11 coffer.....he spit it right back in their face....nice!!! & I betcha that move sure as hell surprised all dem sheiks as well...after all, if someone were to offer them that kinda dough under ANY circumstances you'd think they refuse it?? NOT!!!
& as a footnote to this thread....anyone think that The UAE may be seein some pain for all their massive infrastructure expansion (over the last 5 yrs or so) if they dont continue to get support from Uncle Sam? The Saudi's best tread lightly on their new fiscal policy as it relates to the US dollar.
OK.....steppin off my mid east soap box......don't get me started.....tphhhffft!!
Sitten here waiten for gold ta make up its' mind....& for a few others to blow their recent gains ;)~
Since the effects of Helicoptor Ben's haircut gold's been doin the slow bleed thing....which was to be expected I guess.
& the euro sure be 1 stingy lil beach in the 1.39870 neighborhood....1.4 seems like a few days away in the absence of any concrete fundi's. Dont look 2 much like t/a alone is gonna do it here.
& apologies for the lil board regression from faxedreceipts...I feel as if I need to apologize for his sorry arse since I know he wont do that himself. Even though I can't control his antics, I kinda feel partly responsible for him comin over here....some folks know no boundries....startin ta think he may not be as old as he says he is...by approx 30 yrs :0
Seems this clown wants to follow me around for no apparent reason other than to yap his OT smak....for which I refuse to go along with. I aint gonna play that game here...I respect you guys too much to allow that 2 happen. One of the main reasons I gave up on the stock boards....Moron's like he who haven't a clue & can't seem to let it go...but I digress no'mo....back 2 da biz @ hand.
Cheers!!
PS
lookin at going L on aus/usd...kinda hard to do here but to me she's screaming for a return to the ATH neighborhood.
Seems lotza folks played the rate haircut well....& we have a new leader...so Daiello.....u best get off your duff now...lol
& here I thought I was gonna be movin up....instead I feel lucky to not have moved down so much :0
berudu 305 140,586,770 -22.10 0.19 41.91
daiello 88 72,342,990 -18.57 0.18 40.92
pigtrader 82 43,919,703 -16.38 0.26 31.82
Jester_Vandalay 722 17,105,457 -33.10 0.13 30.63
Anderl 25 276,131 -1.85 0.31 24.83
raiderdad 54 9,352,719 -2.37 0.53 21.66
TexasRedGT 13 3,714,467 -20.52 0.10 19.50
fx-blackjacktrader 1403 169,154,809 -18.54 0.09 1.71
turbokaos 132 60,816,581 -4.36 0.04 1.29
ryjo2 0 0 -16.94 0.00 1.07
surveybeta 4 4,001 -0.19 0.05 0.30
Capitalist 6 4 0.00 8.47 0.24
sterlingrolls 8 245,969 -0.56 -0.24 -0.37
twister95 382 71,463,939 -1.02 -0.44 -1.55
jjshah 18 3,658,715 -2.47 -0.29 -2.71
edgardo rivera 416 15,781,777 -4.73 -0.39 -11.40
amminemma 103 11,438,519 -34.08 -0.23 -24.59
zozem 566 172,324,288 -15.47 -0.55 -31.21
hc_cheung 1890 873,285,821 -55.20 0.05 -61.63
FXWiz 60 132,374,907 -86.38 -0.15 -70.30
Relentless 4 4,997,727 -27.00 -0.49 -70.55
AtaGlance2 76 12,933,569 -46.54 -0.22 -77.56
*Statistics reflect account status as of September-19-2007 00:00
Hmmm...from Ball-less to Helicopter Ben....
guess it all depends upon which side of the interest ticker 1 resides on? ;)~
& BTW...The Devil's Advocate was an awesome flick......I think that's where your pic came from?
Go D'Blue....l8tr! / eom
But I will leave ya w/this 1 last lil diddy from The Street
"Lehman Says Worst Is Over"
http://www.thestreet.com/_htmlmdb/newsanalysis/wallstreet/10380089.html
Certainly doable...& if not today...w/in the next day or so.
+ Greeny is liken the Euro these days too....& he's gotta pretty good track record.
Gotta run....gonna sit on my 20+% for awhile & hope that Daiello does not do the same...lol
Cheers!!
Whose having the difficulty here? lololololol
Indeed...how low will she go?
I'll bet my sprinkled DQ that we're w/in 10% of the bottom....especially after the beefy 1/2 pt haircut.
Tell ya what tho....it is nice to see that equity line payment go down by more than 10% over the last 2 mos. & they are talkin of more haircuts by the eoy.....all the way back down to the 3.5-4.25% range....gotta like that...especailly if you're a r/e fence sitter....rates can't get much lower than that.
Sure makes that monthly rental cash flow position smile ;))