ANOTHER MANIPULATED DAY

No pic today, cuz apparently Google blogspot didn’t feed the Gerbils running 
their servers … amazing, just like Turnkey Forex ... completely clueless.

All eyes on the ECB today, as Super Mario looks to baffle us with bullshit once 

again, like he does almost every time he gives a presser … if anybody can make 

sense out of anything he blathers on about, please let us know, cuz for any 

ordinary human not indoctrinated in the art of doublespeak bullshit, it can be 

very disorienting … scumbag LP banks, no doubt, have been dialed in already 

and know what he’s gonna say, but that simply means they know what side of 

the fence to sit on when the thieving commences at 8:30 AM EST.

I can only wonder what bullshit they got in mind for gold, cuz over the last 

few days this week we’ve seen nothing short of blatant thievery, shit fills via 

“slippage candy”, mystery spikes from hell both up/down that go nowhere, 

and simply the “scumbaggery” you’ve come to know and expect from the 

world’s biggest crooks … in other words, just another day at the office.  

“Most days, the thieving that goes on in gold, makes the thieving that goes on 

in stock indices weak by comparison … and like yesterday, today is one of those 

days in spades … the bullshit off the ECB announcement, which was widely 

expected and priced into the market, except for easing inflation expectations 

which got some panties bunched up, sees the usual “rape & pillage” of sell 

stops in gold, with the then immediate rally and “raping & pillaging” of buy 

stops so banks can offload longs purchased seconds ago … ho hum”.

And from there? … just the usual set of “slippage candy”, mystery ticks & 

spikes, and running of stops both buy & sell so as not to discriminate, and in 

the end we’re where we were 7, 13, 20, 40, [pick a frickin’ number] hours 

ago.

With the general consensus now on Wall Street that Super Mario caved to 

massive easing, you now got the Aussies, ChiComs, the Japanese, & now the 

Europeans about to embark on throwing money from helicopters … if 

tomorrow’s jobs report is strong and above consensus, gold might get 

clobbered … only if the jobs report shows at least some restraint, has gold 

got any chance of a rebound in here in the 1280 region … granted, massive 

QE is gonna open the money floodgates and eventually cause gold to rise, but 

for now I’m more worried about the 1276 level and what happens if that gets 

taken out … cuz we got a definite problem in EURUSD, which today sees a 

major breakdown in support between 1.1265 - 1.13000, and a move on 

1.12000 which isn’t at all good for gold. Tomorrow could see fireworks with a 

good jobs number.

Today, what we end up with is another $5 & change day in New York [so far], 

with nothing but the “Flying Wedge of Death” [FWD] to show for it, with 

moves off both ends ripping new donkeys along the way … throw in widened 

bid/offer spreads, “slippage candy”, and general “scumbaggery” from the 

Turnkey LP’s, and you got a big problem trying to capture any of it. So, no 

trades today, as gold can’t decide whether to fish or cut bait … a very bad 

trading action day.

Tomorrow sees NFP from the Department of Unicorns & Fairy Tales, so who 

knows what’s gonna happen … it’ll be SHTF to be sure, and after that we’ll 

see how the dust settles, and if there are any algorithm trades to make.

Onto tomorrow mi amigos … Onward & Upward!!
 

Have a great day everybody!

-vegas

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“Where all of the Swamp creatures call home!”

As I said yesterday, correlation traders who thought EURUSD had to go down 

cuz of the Turkish Lira, etc., and all the contagion in the E.U., got mauled  

“bigly & yuuuge” in the last 5 days, thank you politics. Trying to pick the top on 

the way up and not get burned badly almost impossible … so, here we are the 

fifth day in a row to the upside off the yearly low, some 300+ PIPS, and unless 

the stench of D.C. gets worse [hard to imagine], EURUSD is due for a pullback. 

The EURUSD tree especially, doesn’t grow to the sky … and not if but when it 

stops, the “unwind” is usually ugly … that brings us to today, where going 

forward from the blast above 1.16000 and cleaning out some more shorts, is 

more than likely to see some “Thelma & Louise” happening real soon … and 

the thing to keep in mind, is the scumbag LP banks aren’t gonna make the 

process smooth for anybody hitting the sell button … especially if the FED 

minutes due at 2 P.M. EST turn out to be “dollar friendly” … watch the fun 

ensue if longs hit the exit gate.

FED at 2 P.M., and even if there is little if any reaction, there should be some 

attempt at a sell off greater than just the few PIPS we’ve seen in the last 5 days 

… this has made me extremely cautious today, cuz although there have been 

buy signals, what you’re biting off if you take them is a whole lot of potential 

downside in just a few M1’s, that you have no idea where they stop. 

Turning to today’s EURUSD market … “lightning in a bottle then crickets”  

… Asia was quiet, Europe completely dead until mid morning, then things 

heated up as the U.S. entered the day … market needs to correct, and selling 

tops is worse than wrestling a pride of lions, cuz the short covering blasts up 

are vicious and stops filled at the highs of the move no matter what you do. No 

way to make this back if you get caught.

The problem with any buy signal today, before the FED minutes are released, 

isn’t the fact they will work, but work by how much? … Cuz it doesn’t do us 

any good to see us up 2 PIPS over 9 minutes, and then in 10 seconds see 

EURUSD get “tapioca-ed” lower by 12+ PIPS in some kind of sell off, where 

you got no idea if this is the start or end of a break. So, the problem is the scope 

of the red M1’s going down, and until I see some sort of long liquidation with 

sell stops hit off [soon mi amigos, very soon I think], why buy when this stuff 

off yearly lows is up like it is and there has been no real liquidation as of yet?

Intraday volatility today a complete joke … one minute off the charts, then 

minutes later it collapses to levels that remind you of a market that is closed. 

My proprietary “volatility heat map” acts like a sine wave roller coaster … and 

there’s no way I’m taking a trade when EURUSD can’t move 3 PIPS in half an 

hour … “then SHTF, and it’s like TNT went off for a few M1’s, and then it’s back 

to crickets … this isn’t trading, this is roulette … there isn’t any market here, only 

scumbag LP banks front running corporate orders via their offshore IBC prop 

accounts … and then it’s on to the next order to screw. There’s no volume, no 

liquidity, and a market that is solely influenced, at least for today, by politics in 

Washington … welcome to the August shitshow”!

So, trading today very much influenced by very low volatility at times, and the 

FED at 2 P.M. … and as I said before, it doesn’t matter if the buy signal is good 

… how good; a PIP over 10+ minutes? … and then what happens if the next M1 

goes down 5+ PIPS in 5 seconds, like it’s done about 15 times already today? 

And despite all the rush to take EURUSD over 1.16000 today multiple times, 

here we sit as I write, below 1.16000 as the down M1’s were brutal in scope and 

timing … looked and felt like the entire exercise was nothing more than buy 

stops being hit off and faded with passion by the scumbag LP banks. Looking at 

the other side, only complete terror as shorts get mauled in literally seconds by 

spikes from hell … any buy stop of course, filled at the top by the usual 

suspects.

“Well, that escalated quickly didn’t it”? … what a clusterfark … nothing like a 

little sell stop manipulation right before the FED minutes, as if somebody knew 

ahead of time what was coming … “nahhhh, couldn’t be … everybody knows 

financial markets are honest & legit … right”? Add to that the gap pricing from 

the usual New York scumbag LP banks, and somewhere Vito Corleone has 

tears in his eyes. Twelve minutes of “rape & pillage”, and now it’s crickets 

… mission accomplished, now good luck getting this crap to move 2 PIPS in 

your profit direction if you’re long. And as quick as they took it up, it was 

quicker on the way down … see my shocked face.

Ok, well today was a waste, but tomorrow should see some good buy signals on 

long liquidation at some point … it won’t be deep before the buyers come back 

in, but the sell stops below the market will provide the impetus down to get long 

… we’ll see what happens.

Only one trade today … PAMM up slightly, about $30.

The one trade came early, and while the signal was a little lower, I took 

advantage of buy stops on the liquidation … and it’s a good thing I did, cuz I 

was about 1 second away from a “gobsmack” lower … looking at this trade, 

I’m thinking unless we see the market lower later, no way am I buying on 

signals with liquidity this low and “scumbaggery” at DEFCON1 from the 

scumbag LP banks with shit fills. It was a good decision. EURUSD algorithm 

performed brilliantly today, even though I chose to ignore many signals due to 

lack of volatility for about 90% of the day … it prevents us from getting into 

chop, and also prevents the signals from collapsing onto themselves where even 

the tiniest movement is exaggerated … don’t need or want that, so it’s simply a 

pass. Kind of figured today could be slow, with stop hunts dominating, where 

they just come out of nowhere like lightning, and then pass for hours with nada 

… so, not that disappointed in today, simply a day to get to tomorrow’s ECB 

meeting which is always an event with Super Mario … as usual with him, he’s 

more than likely to do something to upset the market … we’ll see. And with 

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

PAMM Spreadsheet will be back soon.

Have a great day everybody!!

-vegas

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SLIPPAGE FEST

 

“No way to sugar coat this … I can’t take this slippage.”

That pic above is me today, and quite frankly, the slippage in the DOW30 is so 

 “off the charts”, with the scumbag LP’s handing out bullshit fills, I’m leaving 

this market … this is bullshit, and every single time I hit the button today, I’m 

getting filled on either the new high tick or the new low tick, which is off the 

market. These scumbags can “kiss my ass”. And while I don’t see anywhere 

near the slippage in any other market, if it turns out the scumbag LP bank’s 

won’t treat us fairly, then I’ll go back and trade EURUSD by default… [time 

for some trader talk, so cover the kid’s ears] … “fuck this shit, I’m tired of 

getting bullshit fills from these assholes, and so I simply say adios to the DOW30  

… you can’t trade this shit when every fucking tick is almost 20 points from the 

last one, and then when I go to liquidate? … good grief, close your eyes for the 

absolute bullshit fill I’m getting here from these DOW30 scumbags”. 

I’ve had worse days on the losing side before to be sure in my career, and 

losing a few hundred bucks isn’t the end of the world and can be recovered, but 

I don’t remember every time I trade of getting screwed royally on fills like 

today … and this has been a very big & growing problem in this market, that I 

have repeatedly raised with Turnkey for some time … “of course we get 

ignored”, so screw ‘em.

No way to sugarcoat today’s “rape & pillage” … PAMM down about 0.7%, or 

around $375 … add up the bullshit slippage, and you’re most likely looking at 

around $500 - $600 … and, if any of the FX scumbag LP’s do the same just 

ONCE [on a par with the DOW30 bullshit], I won’t hesitate to go back to 

EURUSD or one of the other pairs in “The Magnificent Seven” quickly. We’re 

not gonna sit around and take this shit lying down. “Of course, at times, any 

market can have some small slippage, but what is happening in the stock indices, 

sadly reminds me of the gold market [XAUUSD]; a once vibrant market turned to 

complete shit by the FED & their accomplice scumbag LP bank pals, and once 

the volume and liquidity dry up, you’re left with nothing but mystery ticks and 

bogus fills no matter what you do … it shouldn’t be like this, but it is”.

Over the weekend, I’m going to be refocusing my efforts on FX pair GBPJPY, 

and will  trade that come Monday. I have been watching it closely these last 4 

months since I last traded it, and while it has almost the current volatility of 

the stock indices, it doesn’t exhibit anywhere near the slippage and total 

bullshit the DOW30 has. In any event, it should be a better trading 

environment for us, along with the accompanying volatility we need to make 

money. It's a market that I have traded successfully over the last 16 years, and

I know it very, very well and am comfortable trading it. With a current spread

of between 1/2 to 1 PIP, and current volatility with good trading conditions, it's

a great market. Yes, it can be a little psychotic at times, but it pales in 

comparison to the shenanigans pulled every day in the stock indices. Simply

put: it's a good fit. So, on to GBPJPY.

 

Right now, I want to hit something I’m so damn mad … I’ll get over it to be 

sure, cuz the money amount is very small, but it pisses me off when my trade is 

a winner, and I hit the liquidate button and see that it’s a loser cuz the fill got 

“gassed” by 10 - 15+ points, order after order. Well, it ain’t happening again, 

so screw ‘em. Imagine an FX pair, where you consistently got fills 10 - 30+ PIPS 

off the market and there isn’t any news event to speak of … just mystery ticks 

and bogus fills during the day over and over again … who would trade this? 

“Right, and neither am I … I hope those assholes starve to death”!

I’ll have the PAMM spreadsheet updated and posted tomorrow … right now 

isn’t a good time, cuz as you might have noticed, I’m just a tad “sour”,  and 

I’m apt to throw the computer into the ocean when looking at the bullshit fills. 

“My cupcake is definitely frosted at the moment”. I need a drink … I’m outta 

here … until Monday mi amigos … Onward & Upward!! 

Have a great weekend everybody!

-vegas

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