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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

HAS THE INVESTMENT/TRADING WORLD GONE INSANE?

“The end result of financial markets & POLS … see what the cat did!?”

Worldwide “Plunge Protection Team” [PPT], iteration # 2,985,301 … “can Pols 
just shut the hell up and leave markets alone? … to ask the question is to answer 
it, of course, and we’re way past the point of no return, cuz they all use financial 
markets now as “policy tools” to venerate their idiotic policies … and I’m not 
just talkin’ about President Trump tweets either, cuz the whole world is in on it, 
and they all do it, all day every day”.

“What’s a little “haircut” on the Hang Seng open”? … sure, it’s a 750 point 
mugging, where the positioned specs get dutifully stopped out, and/or sell the 
first rally, and then watch as the PPT steps in for the kill … specs sell, banks 
buy, and 2 hours later and 400+ points higher, and it’s the same painful lesson 
traders get to learn all over again about trading, which is, “trading is all about 
big money getting small money to give them their money willingly, without ever 
knowing or thinking they’ve been manipulated worse than Pavlov’s dog”! And 
there’s no shortage of willing participants who show up, year after year, and 
somehow think “fun-der-mentals” is the key to profitable success, and get 
shown “the door” back to the “Pudding Business” rather quickly.

We are in our second week of trading the Hang Seng, and there is no question 
in my mind the “Hang Seng Explosion Algorithm” is on the proper track for 
consistent, non stop, daily profits. In the last couple of blog posts, I’ve tried to 
lay out some of the intricacies involving the math behind everything … it’s the 
“tip of the iceberg” folks, and as I’ve said, “it all depends on what questions you 
ask, cuz literally nothing can be assumed … an exact answer for an exact 
question”.

As I get more and more answers, and the questions then become more market 
specific, we ultimately end up in an “optimal” trading environment, that’s 
backed up with the math and lends itself to larger volumes and better trades. 
From where we started a couple of weeks ago, we’re about twentyfold farther 
along than where we started. And what’s becoming increasingly clear as each 
day goes into the next, is that the “10 & 5” levels of the red line RSI indicator 
are too small and need to be slightly adjusted upward … we’re simply missing 
way too many trading opportunities that lend themselves to a better initial red 
line threshold. Therefore, I’m altering the parameters to red lines at  
“13.3 & 8”, as the new trade threshold … which by the way increases our 
trading signals by approximately 77.84%! … and while I don’t have the exact 
number at my fingertips today [I’ll have it by the end of the weekend], it 
doesn’t appear our “risk profile” goes up significantly; maybe around 2% - 3% 
at first glance, but I haven’t taken into consideration the three [3]  
“false positive” scenarios I wrote about yesterday, that negate more highly 
probable potential losing trades and keep us out of trouble … that’s gonna take 
a few days to calculate with any precision … but, I know it will be a  
“net positive” for us, it just depends on by what degree.

I want to reiterate, and try and make clear to everyone, just how important it is 
to pay attention to the three [3] major types of “false positive” trade signals 
[which I highlighted yesterday] you’re gonna get when the aqua RSI line goes 
under 13.3, and then back out the top for a potential long trade … while they 
will never be 100% of these specific three [3] types, you’re gonna be hard 
pressed to find another scenario that doesn’t fall into one of these categories 
… bottom line is this: “if in doubt, pass on the trade and wait for the next signal 
… Lord knows, we’re gonna get plenty of signals, and it’s not like it’s gonna be 
the only one today”. They’re pretty easy to remember, but to summarize, they 
are 1) not much of a decline in terms of scope of the move down, meaning very 
gradual and not steep, 2) the bottom red M1 having too large of a “tail” at the 
close, followed by a new M1 that attempts to go higher first, and not lower, and 
3) the “one hit wonder” M1’s, where a majority of the decline in price comes 
from the current M1.

Turning to today’s Hang Seng market … “well, nothing like a coordinated PPT 
operation worldwide at the same time … gee, if I wasn’t such a skeptic of 
scumbag LP banks & central bankers, I’d say they set the markets up pretty good, 
for a good old fashioned “shake down” at traders expense … nahhhh, they 
wouldn’t do that, would they”!? File this under “knock me over with a feather”, 
not a single VALID buy signal the entire day in the Hang Seng … from a few 
minutes after the open, to the close of the night session … after opening 750+ 
points lower on tariffs news … in other words, after the ass kicking at the open, 
no real sell pressure the entire day … “tell me again about market 
“fun-der-mentals” and how all that works out”. [The three [3] buy signals about 
an hour from the close, all “false positives”, cuz either the decline is only about 
30 - 40 points respectively for the first two, and the third is in the last 15 
minutes of the day, where we never make any trades … and sure enough, both 
of the first two [2] trades would have been losers if taken … “THE SETUP 
MATTERS!” … otherwise, it’s nothing but a big whoop. Don’t let your appetite 
for a trade, lead you to a loser … all that matters is winning!]

Specifically, for those “false positive” potential trades that fall under  
“not enough of a decline”, I’m looking for at LEAST a 70 point move lower 
from the most recent top … the bigger the decline the better, and the more  
“buy fuel” unleashed when it recovers and moves higher … anything less than 
70 points, and you take the very real risk of 1) not much of a bounce, and 
2) a further meltdown in price to its interim bottom.

No trades today in the PAMM, simply cuz we got no signals until the last hour 
of trading, and all three [3] were “false positives” under the algo criteria for 
trades. “Whaddaya gonna do”?

With tomorrow’s open, the PAMM will be trading the new parameter levels in 
the algo … and if by chance going forward, we have days with no trades, it’ll 
only be cuz intraday volatility has collapsed and there isn’t anything to do 
anyway. But overall, we will see increased trading volumes, along with better 
profits. 

Staff & I are diligently working on new algo signal history, starting 
April 1, 2018 … I’m hoping we can get it done and catalogued by the end of the 
weekend, cuz I think it will be an invaluable resource for everybody, that you’ll 
continually check with over time. Each month is going to be broken down into 3 
sub-sections: 1) profitable trades given the algo guidelines, 2) losing trades 
given the algo guidelines, and 3) “false positive” trade signals. Depending on 
what you want to look at, you can go right to the section and find what you 
need without having to search the whole month filled with other criteria … and 
as we go along, accompanying the historical charts, a spreadsheet to keep track 
of the results. 

A disappointing day on many levels, not the least of which is massive 
government PPT buying on every major world stock index at exactly the same 
time … “we simply can’t have significantly lower stock prices on any kind of 
trade or tariffs panic that might upset investors and cause a lack of confidence in 
central bankers ability to smooth things over”. In a sane world, we’d all be 
laughing ourselves silly at the hubris of these Twits, but when you got the 
“CNTRL-P” button at your disposal, and you can “muscle” anybody and 
everybody into submission, at the end of the day it ends up working, simply cuz 
the brave pioneers who’ve taken on the central bankers in the past are all dead! 
… “Money talks, bullshit walks … what else do you need to know”?

And with that, I’m outta here … until tomorrow mi amigos … “I need bigger & 
darker shades, the future’s so damn bright”! … we’ll be there again tomorrow 
when it opens … opportunity awaits! Onward & Upward!!

PAMM Spreadsheet directly below.


Have a great day everybody!!

-vegas

OUR TURNKEY FOREX “PAMM/MAM” IS NOW OPEN AND
OPERATIONAL; SEE “PAMM/MAM MONEY PROGRAM” IN
“DOWNLOAD LINKS” SECTION IN RIGHT HAND COLUMN
FOR DETAILS [VIEW ONLINE AND/OR DOWNLOAD] AND
START YOUR JOURNEY FROM WHERE YOU ARE AT TO
“ESCAPE TO SUCCESS”!



 


















Wednesday, May 23, 2018

THE FX “YO-YO”

“Do it right, or you might as well do this!”

A short post today, cuz it’s another U.K. “data dump”, and the FED Minutes 
this afternoon at 2 P.M. EST … and who knows what the Twits at the Eccles 
Building are gonna come up with.

From today’s action, it appears the range “drought” might be over … today’s 
range a little deceiving, cuz 40 - 45 PIPS came from early Asia, and 2 M1’s 
where the first went down 20 PIPS in less than a second, and the second M1, the 
release of disappointing U.K. inflation numbers and the market dumped 40 
PIPS in a millisecond … that being the case, the “so far” range today of 137 
PIPS sees about 100 PIPS of that being untradeable … “it isn’t as great as it 
first appears, although the intraday action is much better than previous days, and 
the market has some “flow” to it that it has noticeably lacked recently … so, I’m 
hopeful this “PIP drought” is over, and Cable can get back to normal”.

As is usually the case, the FED ruins the early afternoon trade with their 
minutes release, so now it’s just a matter of waiting for that … we’ll see if there 
are any surprises. Minutes out ...  a nothing burger; a little short covering in 
Cable due to the fact no news of surprise hawkish interest rate increases, and 
that’s giving some heartburn to those who decided to stay short into the 
release.

Tomorrow sees BOE Chief Honcho Carney speaking at 4 A.M. EST, followed 
quickly at 4:30 A.M. EST by retail sales numbers, and if we can keep the  
“mojo” going, we in all likelihood can have another decent day of trading 
activity.

Two short trades today … PAMM up a few bucks north of 0.1%.

I’m a little surprised the inflation numbers “tanked” the market … they would 
have beat the consensus forecast, if not for lower airline ticket prices, and even 
the clueless math whiz kids at the Bureau of Unicorns & Fairy Tales U.K, admit 
it’s a seasonal decline every year when Easter comes early … so, it is what it is, 
but it could be the source of the large retracement seen since it came out.

As we’ve seen lately, being long this market can get you decapitated quickly 
without warning … some of the spikes down off rallies were particularly 
vicious, but I would remind traders, “nothing grows to the sky and nothing goes 
to zero either … and what that means, is somewhere in here [tomorrow, Friday, or 
early next week … a good bet would be the Monday Memorial Day Holiday in the 
U.S.], coming off a low, this stuff is due for one hell of a move higher … I dunno 
what the “news” catalyst will be to light this “dry Christmas tree”, but this market 
is due for a "clean out" on the upside that has some temporary legs lasting longer 
than 10 minutes … however, it’s gonna have to come off a low, and any “open 
higher go higher” scenario early isn’t gonna work … the ‘setup” here is key, and 
it has to catch shorts napping and trap them viciously … so, be very careful about 
remaining short for too long and just assuming it’s moving lower”.

We’ll see what kind of action tomorrow brings, but I was concentrating today 
on watching the “flow” of price as it moved … and noting that it was 10 times 
better than in the last couple of weeks … that’s what we need to see for larger 
intraday ranges, and more importantly better trading opportunities. Again, 
“news” releases dominate the range, and that’s always unfortunate but 
something we simply live with and accept … it isn’t so much the morning stuff 
from the U.K., but the afternoon things from the FED that really distort 
trading on days they are the market’s focus. With the better trading conditions 
comes better trades, and today saw 2, although the first didn’t add much 
… tomorrow should continue that trend. 

All told, let’s hope we’ve seen the last of the “doji” family for a good long while 
… today’s range almost the entire high close to low close range of the previous 
15 trading days! … think about this for a second, and it’s a head shaker! … and 
with that, I’m outta here … until tomorrow mi amigos … Onward & Upward!!

PAMM Spreadsheet directly below.


Have a great day everybody!

-vegas

OUR TURNKEY FOREX “PAMM/MAM” IS NOW OPEN AND
OPERATIONAL; SEE “PAMM/MAM MONEY PROGRAM” IN
“DOWNLOAD LINKS” SECTION IN RIGHT HAND COLUMN
FOR DETAILS [VIEW ONLINE AND/OR DOWNLOAD] AND
START YOUR JOURNEY FROM WHERE YOU ARE AT TO
“ESCAPE TO SUCCESS”!