THE BRENT TORNADO

 

“What’s it like trading Brent? … stand in the middle of this!”

In all my years of trading, both on & off the floor, I’ve never seen anything 

move so fast, with such viciousness, and then end just as quickly and reverse, as 

Brent Crude Oil … “this stuff is insane, and only knows three states to exist in; 

1) freight train running higher, 2) freight train running lower, and 3) dead in the 

water ready to literally explode one way or the other”.

Yes, quite frankly I have told people for eons, that one of the keys to success as a 

trader, is not looking back or second guessing yourself, but when it comes to 

Brent, everything you know about other markets and how markets trade 

becomes moot … this stuff defies all logic, runs faster & farther than anyone 

can imagine in time frames that blow your mind, and then reverses quicker than 

any other market on the planet … throw in some serious stop hunts, and of 

course scumbag LP bank “scumbaggery” with new highs and/or new lows, and 

you have a recipe for a serious ass kicking extravaganza on your hands.

It sits doing nothing, and then you blink your eyes, and it explodes up/down 

and the train has left the station … good luck finding a place to get in and not 

paying through the nose for the experience. It matters nothing what WTI is 

doing … “hell, you might as well be trading July/November Soybeans in the 

biggest Midwest drought in history, cuz both contracts can move 1) together, 

2) opposite, or 3) one moves and the other is dead”. You pick your spots to 

liquidate when momentum dies, before the turn in price, and then for maybe 

10 - 90 seconds you look like a genius … then in seconds it explodes higher 

while WTI is going down, and buy stops get hit, and you’re 40 cents away from 

your liquidation price and sitting there asking, “WTF was that”?

I’m gonna say this again, cuz it bears repeating … “in all my decades of trading, 

I’ve never seen a market move like Brent crude oil does on a daily basis [except 

maybe Nat Gas in a winter freeze in October], and I’ve thought up ‘till now, that I 

have seen just about everything there is to be seen … well, not true, cuz this stuff 

rockets, goes “Thelma & Louise”, stops on a dime and reverses, and blows out the 

other end with a vengeance, and literally leaves you with soiled big girl panties, 

while you’re trying to figure out what the hell just happened … well, nothing 

happened, it’s the way the market trades”!

Only one trade today … PAMM up between 0.1% - 0.2%. You have no idea 

how disappointed I am, given today’s range … “no … really ...  you don’t”.

Algorithm performed absolutely beautifully … to bad your dumb ass money 

manager got “to smart by half” and tried to outsmart the market and then got 

left at the train station as the market exploded higher … and of course, price 

never came back to give another buying opportunity for over $1 a barrel 

… “Yup, fucking brilliant … no wonder I’m not qualified to clean up elephant 

shit at the circus, cuz I know better … and yet here I sit, not wanting to get long 

again on the signal after my first trade cuz I “don’t like the action” … the Mrs. 

says, “who cares WTF you think, make the frickin’ trade”!

Even the dog is lookin’ at me funny … in any event, it reminds me of my first 

months trading my original floor trading algorithm … then, it took me about 

3 months to finally make the trades automatically … relax, it ain’t gonna 

happen again; I can take a hint. Quite frankly, though, in my defense I didn’t 

see WTI & Brent trading like a back month pork belly spread … I’m 

somewhat in shock they trade so differently.

It all leaves me tremendously encouraged for the days/weeks/months & years 

ahead, cuz it’s everything you could possibly want from a market, and the 

Brent algorithm 100% totally “nails it”; even with yesterday’s losers from 2

 buy signals, if I had stayed with the third buy signal trade a few minutes 

longer, yesterday would have been a nice winning day. 

All told, today is nothing more than “tuition” ... an “opportunity cost” fine for 

being a dumb ass … I can face it, I can admit it, and I can learn from it and 

move on … it’s water off a duck’s back. I’m outta here, and it’s gonna take 

more than one cold one to cool me down from myself … until tomorrow mi 

amigos … Onward & Upward!!

PAMM Spreadsheet directly below.

 

Have a great day everybody!

-vegas

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CHEAP TUITION

 

“Sometimes, they all come out at once!”

Real moments and ‘reality checks” are important in trading … yesterday was 

one such moment. And quite frankly, even if the scumbag LP banks hadn’t 

ripped EVERY ORDER, but kept it to maybe half the orders, I still would 

have come to the same “come to Jesus” moment with respect to some of these 

markets. What’s changed over the last couple of years more than anything, is 

that the scumbag LP dealer banks, who we are forced to do biz with and have 

no other options, are more brazen, overt, and quick to misprice practically 

every market they got their sticky fingers in, and that’s all of them … and 

nowhere is this more apparent than in stock indices, precious metals, and FX 

crosses. “Cuz if you can sit there, with a straight face and lie to me, and tell me 

that the liquidation sell fill off the market by 7 full PIPS in a rising market, OR 

the 3.9 PIP rip on a buy liquidation, when GBPJPY is on the frickin’ low 

[literally], is “fair & accurate pricing”, then I think you have a career ahead of 

you in politics”. [Choose Libtard Nation, cuz facts just get in the way of the 

official Progressive narrative, and you’ll be right at home.]

And if you’re an experienced trader, you quickly realize the only way to trade 

is the U.S. Dollar pairs … everything else is a complete “illusion” they would 

love you to believe, and the HAL9000 computer system they all use is as dirty 

as they come … the only thing keeping the dollar pairs honest, is all the 

competition from other banks around the world, and if they stray too far off 

the reservation, people & regulators start to notice …”how do you think they 

caught FXCM sandbagging orders, and as a result, kicked them out of the biz”?

The “market tuition” we pay, is that first realization we got “hosed”, but the 

information gained to avoid it in the future far outweighs the money lost if it’s 

small in scope … cuz the dirty little secret is, no matter how many “pony rides” 

you get, every time you click the buy or sell button , they’re gonna take a chunk 

of your hide for themselves … EVERY SINGLE DAMN TIME … heads they 

win, tails you lose. It isn’t about the money, it’s about the business model. “Well 

screw that … I’m not here to donate, I’m here to withdraw … that’s my biz model, 

and when you “stack things” against me, so far out of whack with mystery ticks, 

stop hunts, & slippage, that you need two pony rides a day just to break even, it’s 

time to bid you adios, cuz trading through Vito Corleone, Inc. would be cheaper”.

Turning to today’s GBPUSD market … seriously, this is what you’re handing 

me today? … a multi trip excursion to the high and low, via the “Flying Wedge 

of Death” [FWD], that sees a slightly higher than 35 PIP range over 10 hours? 

… where there is zero order flow, no volume, and even less liquidity. How 

many times today have I seen 4 - 7 PIP spikes, both up & down … “well, way 

too damn many”! Fortunately, I haven’t been the recipient of any of them. 

Tonight sees the BOJ meet on interest rates, and tomorrow morning sees the 

ECB go at it with Super Mario … the next Cable interest rate meeting is 

Thursday, May 10th. Granted, both are holding FX action back, but this is the 

worst day I’ve seen in Cable, action wise, in a very long time … most of the last 

10 hours has seen less than 25 PIPS, with nothing but gaps and stops getting 

clicked off. Everybody holding their collective breath to see what stocks do, and 

whether or not they “Thelma & Louise” this afternoon; so far a rather subdued 

day in the DOW30 & SPP500 … stocks getting “monkey hammered” affects 

Treasury yields, and Treasury yields affect FX … and with every retarded 

kitten in the world watching and reacting to the 3% “Maginot Line” in the 

Treasury 10 YR., it’s a self fulfilling prophecy of “monkey see, monkey do”.

A shipload of trades today … PAMM down slightly, a little over $100.

We are in a new paradigm for trading … gone are the days of making 

minuscule profits, and then getting clipped for $300 - $400 bucks on a bad day. 

Volumes here in Cable are in the 200,000 - 500,000 notional range, and 

generally speaking, the larger the volume, the greater the likelihood of  

“position scaling” on my part, which means winning positions … bottom line: 

the flipping around of the trading model for the PAMM … there are no “bad 

days”, only days like today where there isn’t any action whatsoever and the 

market doesn’t move for the entire day; on days like these, trading is going to 

be very tough. It doesn’t necessarily mean losing trades, but the probability of 

loss is much greater, and again generally it means losses should be very small 

relative to what volumes are being traded. On the other side of the coin, most 

normal trading days should see good profits, and when I say “good profit”, I 

generally mean over $500 - $1,000+ on the plus side. So, people need to keep 

things in perspective going forward, cuz I’m not gonna be able to make 

everybody a millionaire this millennia at $1.98 per day. Tomorrow’s blog 

post, I’ll cover this in much more detail.

And, it’s official … 12 hours of the dullest trading I think I’ve ever witnessed in 

GBPUSD, which outside of a few M1’s where the market went to its extremes 

for the day before snapping back quickly, basically it was 1.3950-ish on the high 

side, and 1.39250 - 1.3930-ish on the low side … a wonderful 20 - 25 PIP range 

that saw more than its fair share of spikes in the 4 - 7 PIP range in a 

millisecond. And if your trading model depends on days like this to make 

money, good luck with that. Fills today good, only one trade saw anything 

more than a tenth of a PIP off the bid/offer, and it wasn’t significantly worse 

than that … so, can’t complain at all in the pricing arena today.

Tonight sees the BOJ meet, and Kuroda will more than likely open the QE 

floodgates once again … I haven’t a clue how FX reacts to this, given his 

dismal track record over the years getting USDJPY higher. ECB comes out 

with their interest rate agenda tomorrow morning at 08:00 EST, and Super 

Mario will talk out of both sides of his mouth and try to please bulls & bears 

and keep EURUSD from rallying … we’ll see how this goes. Tomorrow night 

sees U.K. consumer confidence at 7:01 P.M. EST, right before the Asian open, 

and given the nefarious bullshit in the past that has happened in Cable during 

this time slot, you couldn’t pay me to have a position going into this … Cable 

could react and do anything. And then on Friday, first up is U.K. GDP, and 

then at 10:00 A.M. EST, Carney from the BOE is due to give a speech … oh, 

won’t this be a hoot going into the weekend … expect volatility fireworks on 

Friday mi amigos.

Cable action today remained firmly on the bearish side … any and every short 

covering bounce was solidly met with capital flow & corporate account selling 

by big monied interests … it feels like it wants to go much lower, maybe down 

into the 1.37’s, and my guess is Carney on Friday, along with dismal GDP 

numbers, will be the catalyst to do it … we’ll see, and anything can change in a 

heartbeat, but for the umpteenth million time over the years, Cable gets way 

ahead of the reality of the U.K. economy, and therefore higher interest rates, 

and then gets disappointed “bigly & yuuge”. It could be different this time, but 

why?

Cable is the most volatile of the U.S. Dollar pairs, and I’m drawing the 

“red line” in the sand; I’m staying here, “come hell or high water”, and I’m not 

going to be switching markets again anytime soon … this pair has all we need, 

and the algorithm specifically designed for it [with minor modifications] many 

years ago when it was known on the trading floor as, “The Widow Maker”, is 

still as good as it ever was. Cousin It & Chief of Staff Milton Waddums have 

run all the numbers from the last nine months in GBPUSD, from last August 1, 

2017 up until yesterday, and I got drool all over my chin. This upcoming 

weekend, I’ll publish the GBPUSD algorithm, that was specifically designed for 

it [with very minor modifications] and no other market, along with pertinent 

data. So, fasten your seatbelt and hang in there, cuz this is gonna be fun.

The only thing I’m disappointed in from today’s trading is the action in the 

marketplace … give me 100 days like this over the next 20 years, and I’ll make 

the exact same trades every time … simply cuz I have to if we’re gonna catch 

the “pony rides” the market offers in abundance. So, trade fills were good, 

market action sucked, & I made the trades I had to … it is what it is, and it’s 

the price we pay for nice paydays, so no need to be disappointed cuz I can’t 

make the market move.

Last night I went to update the PAMM, using my spreadsheet program  

“Google Sheets” [online and free], and I can’t get any of my spreadsheets to 

open … contacted Google support, and I got a live chat, here in about an hour, 

with one of their tech support people to get it figured out … so, spreadsheet 

will be updated and posted when the “techies” get the problem solved. Until 

tomorrow mi amigos … I’m outta here … Onward & Upward!!

Have a great day everybody!

-vegas

OUR TURNKEY FOREX “PAMM/MAM” IS NOW OPEN AND

OPERATIONAL; SEE “PAMM/MAM MONEY PROGRAM” IN

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FOR DETAILS [VIEW ONLINE AND/OR DOWNLOAD] AND

START YOUR JOURNEY FROM WHERE YOU ARE AT TO

“ESCAPE TO SUCCESS”!