“Excuse me … have we met somewhere before?”
We all know the #1 rule of FX, which is “there are no rules”, and those that
have the gold [meaning money] can do whatever the hell they want. And so, we
find ourselves consistently and constantly behind the scumbag LP dealer bank
“eightball”, and whatever doesn’t get ‘em indicted is the way they fly … cuz as
we all know, they go right up to that “red line” each and every day.
And while you can scream at them, tell them they’re thieves, and dress them
down with any and all the four letter words any language has to offer, they
usually just yawn and ignore you, cuz they already know this … “dude, what’s
your point?” … cuz they make the rules … don’t like it? … fine, go trade
futures, or STFU cuz we are the only alternative other than simply going
home.
It might come as a surprise to many who use the MT4 to trade, but in the
“Journal” section, is a detailed “transcript” of each and every trade, including
times of order entry and liquidation … bottom line: you can see the time you
put the order in, and when it was executed by the LP, in a separate journal
entry. Directly below, my last trade of the day, and you can see there are 4
lines.
The bottom line of the four is when I hit the “buy offer” (market) button in the
order box; it shows the date [2018.05.17] and the time I hit the button to buy in
EST, not GMT, cuz my computer is set to NY time; server time add 4 hours
[11:16:19.288]. So, as you can see, time goes to the one thousandth second.
Second line from the bottom, is my fill from the LP, and you can clearly see, I
was filled at time 11:16:19.613; that’s a response time of about 325
milliseconds, which is about average for me, here in the Caribbean … I’ll get
anywhere from 250 milliseconds to as high as 400 milliseconds, depending on a
number of internet factors. And you can see when I liquidated on the third line
from the bottom, my order to sell and liquidate happened at 11:17:08.784, and
on the top line, I was filled at time 11:17:09.103; again, right at 319
milliseconds, not far in terms of time from the initiation of the trade.
Now, let’s go earlier to a trade. Directly below the four lines like above from
“Journal” in the MT4 trading platform.
Bottom line, order to buy initiated at 8:26:36.040 … second line from bottom,
order to buy filled at 8:26:42.848 … “WTF IS THIS HORSESHIT”? … 6.8
SECONDS THEY HAD MY ORDER QUEUED UP … when I initially hit the
buy button, the offer was at 1.35107, and in that 6.808 seconds where I/we
were held up at gunpoint, the market went straight up to 1.35141 and we were
filled at 1.35139 … and during this time, my order box says, “please wait, your
order is being filled”, but all I’m thinkin’ is, “no, it’s not being filled, it’s being
fucked”. Isn’t it an amazing coincidence that on a buy order when nothing is
happening … meaning, no news … that the “deeeeeeeep” liquidity of the so
called 20+ “top tier” banks in the world, which you know are the very best of
the best, and which Turnkey brags “ad infinitum nauseum” about all the time,
can’t seem to fill a 1 lot within 6 seconds … and amazingly, I get filled right at
the top of the M1 as a result, not at the bottom, which is another coincidence
that I’m sure is purely an accident … right?
Well, the next 2 hours are interesting to say the least, cuz as soon as the market
slows down, I’m on the phone and people are hearing about it … bottom line?
“Yes, we understand your anger, and we are opening an investigation, and we’ll
get it figured out”.
This is LP code for, 1) we’ll get back to you between July 4th and Labor Day,
2) we’ll have the HAL9000 give itself a complete rectal examination and get to
the “bottom of it”, and most importantly 3) STFU and keep trading, you only
got clipped for $29!
“Dave? …. Dave? …. We don’t have a problem, do we Dave? I can assure you
that all of my systems are working at 100% peak efficiency, and that your order
was filled flawlessly by the systems algorithm”. From your standpoint, yes it was
“peak efficiency” … if I tried and was allowed to, I couldn’t steal it any better
either.
Of course, getting the $29 bucks + RT commission back is “out of the question”
… “hey, we steal it, we don’t ever give it back, even though you got us red handed
from the MT4 … after a careful, deep, and thorough forensic investigation by
our compliance department, we think it was either aliens or the Hawaiian volcano
that was the problem, and of course, that isn’t our fault … so sorry for the loss,
now STFU and get back to trading so we can steal some more”.
And so it goes … we’ll see what this “investigation” yields besides a whole lot of
bullshit … caught red handed, and they still don’t give a shit … in the
electronic age of trading, with no pits, you get to fight the market, and then you
get to fight with the scumbag LP banks, so they keep the stealing to a minimum
… just another day at the office … yawn, so what else is new?
Turning to today’s GBPUSD market … “seriously, you gonna do this overnight
with a bullshit “Brexit” story”? … Yup, nothing says “planted story” in the off
hours of Australia & New Zealand, where the FX desks are not only
notoriously thin, but manned by baby faced 20 somethings out of grad school,
better than some “muscle & money” to blast Cable up 50 - 60 PIPS on vapors
… “gosh, don’t ya just love honest markets”?
And all this leads to this mornings early confusion when the U.K Telegraph &
Reuters get into a pissing match over “Brexit” … “our story is right … no, it
isn’t; here’s the real story … no, you’re wrong … bullshit, we’re right”. It got so
bad bouncing markets, that finally PM May stepped to the British cameras and
settled it … Reuters was right. Well, by then, the scumbag dealers had already
taken it to the moon and back, so what’s left? What’s left is what is usually left
after volatile periods where both sides of the order book get destroyed … “not a
damn thing” … and as you can see below, not a helluva lot happened in the last
8 hours of our day, inside an approximate 30 PIP range of nothing but mystery
ticks, bullshit fills, and traders left scratching their heads cuz nothing has any
follow through whatsoever after any initial blast either up or down … “it’s
freight train city and … crickets”. Directly below, first the GBPUSD M5
algorithm, followed by the daily candlestick. “Oh look, another day stuck in
f-ing mud! … how exciting”!
Four trades today … PAMM up slightly, collectively about $22.
And I’m sitting here early on, watching this stuff rally and break viciously, and
every time it rallies/breaks I’m thinkin’, “Ok, on the correction I’ll get long/short
on the algo signal turnaround, and then another news headline hits RE “Brexit”,
and it just keeps going the wrong way on strong momentum … and when you
notice the goofs at the Telegraph & Reuters trying to outdo each other with
contradictory headlines, you quickly realize that “nothing” is the optimal strategy,
except if you want to lose money, cuz “shoes are dropping” all over the place”.
This afternoon’s action really was very disappointing … crude oil broke down
about $1 per barrel and even hit a new low for the day, and all Cable could do
is rally about 10 - 15 PIPS tops … and as oil backs off, any uptick sees a vicious
and quick move lower in Cable below 1.35000. And again, they rally it on
bullshit “Brexit” rumors, and then can’t do “Mr. Jack Squat” the entire rest of
the day from the early Asia highs … action like this is a strong indication of
more to come on the downside.
And now that we’re in the New York mid afternoon, expect anything &
everything scumbag New York banks can throw at a market to see who can
puke the hardest … “well, that escalated quickly to the downside in one minute,
didn’t it”? I’m sure more “Brexit” rumor news hit from an FX desk
somewhere, and don’t worry, your sell stop filled at the bottom of the 16 PIP
downdraft, only to see it come fully back in under 2 minutes … “yea, fair fill &
thanks for playing”!
Another day inside the range of the last 10 days, and about the only thing
positive about today is that we’re up money … shoulda been more, but I guess
it was our turn to get robbed at the 7-11, and contribute to the “head honcho’s”
daughter getting either a new pony or ballet lessons … “happy dancing honey”!
All told, though, I’m very pleased with the algorithm’s response to these
challenging markets of the last 11 days … what looks “good as gold” and the
algo says don’t do it, turns out the algo is right very quickly. One glance at the
daily candlestick in GBPUSD, and you’re left wondering, “when does this shit
end, cuz I don’t see anything like the last 11 days going back many years”?
Wouldn’t it be nice [Beach Boys (1960’s) … uh oh, did I just “age” myself?] if
that end came tomorrow? … and with that, I think the dog deserves some
bacon [he’s nodding “hell yes man”!] … I’m outta here … until tomorrow mi
amigos … Onward & Upward!!
PAMM spreadsheet directly below.
Have a great day everybody!
-vegas
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