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nzvik
(Auckland, New Zealand)
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nzvik
Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 225
14 years ago
Dec 1, 2009 21:07
Asad, I am happy being a trader, will leave you to play the Soros part. whatever works for you. Hopefully, we will still see you at this forum once you have made your billions.
arbitrage is a different game and to really benefit you need to be able to spot the gaps before others and play big positions, as these gaps close pretty quickly once others figure it out.
Shorting into strength is for deep pockets or the .....
nzvik
Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 225
14 years ago
Dec 1, 2009 9:46
u will be surprised how many trend fighters exist here - a lot of people seem to love shorting against the trend - not only oil - but gold, indices - it seems that anything that rises has to to be shorted.
nzvik
Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 225
14 years ago
Nov 27, 2009 8:21
where's Asad ? he must be laughing all the way to the bank !
nzvik
Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 225
14 years ago
Nov 27, 2009 3:29
thanks Radu, trust me it has taken a lot of hard work, study, research, discipline, and focus to make money from the markets. Stops are very important and I think, more important is to not trade if the market is crazy such as today and from what Ashraf says, possibly tomorrow. It is like a casino before monday.

nzvik
Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 225
14 years ago
Nov 27, 2009 1:01
Radu,

I never enter a trade without a stop. But also never trade on such crazy days

time to go and hit the tennis courts

see u later
nzvik
Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 225
14 years ago
Nov 27, 2009 0:08
Radu

crazy swings all over in yen crosses - down 200 up 100 pips all within a 30 minute time frame. will not be trading till monday - as this thin volume trading looks like will continue to have wild swings and will mess up quite a few charts and eat up stops.

good luck.
nzvik
Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 225
14 years ago
Nov 26, 2009 18:31
Asad,

If oil is at 77 or 76, then the market believes that is the right price for the time being. Your theory around weaker economies in general is not trade able for me in the short to medium term. Then one would have been short the S&P for the last 6 months
Its all relative - are we better off than 12 months back - of course things are in better shape, and I can't judge whether the current economy merits oil at 77 or 65 or 95 or 130 - and as a trader I don't really care.
Ashraf - the FTSE drop could be the start of our cyclical month end correction - as money goes off the table bfore the NFP

good luck

nzvik
Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 225
14 years ago
Nov 26, 2009 1:17
Asad

As per Ashraf's chart - this is normal - it is still playing in the range. If you want to play oil - u must play it both ways, just tighten your stops when price is close to range tops and bottoms.

I am just waiting for it break out of this range - will follow it whichever direction it goes.

And fundamentally - I don't think world economies are getting hammered. In fact - most are recovering nicely and oil consumption will simply go up - more so in the coming holiday season.

Good Luck.
nzvik
Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 225
14 years ago
Nov 20, 2009 20:41
Ashraf,
The FTSE 100 had its largest volume day since May 7 - over 2 billion shares of the FTSE100 stocks were transacted today. The day is only marginally down, but what would you read into this ? more downside to come ?
The 5 minute period from 10.20 am saw 300million shares transacted and the FTSE100 moved just 1 point. a lot of shares got transacted without moving the market.

thanks
Vik
nzvik
Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 225
14 years ago
Nov 19, 2009 19:09
LionK - we touched 1130.4 today - hope you got out. If not you might get another chance in the Asian session.