“Do
not trade FX in the Asian session! WHY?”
I hadn’t even gone for dinner yet last
night, when the “stupid shit” brigade out of Japan went for GBPUSD with the FX
equivalent of nuclear weapons. Although not quite the magnitude of the “Swiss
Debacle” in January 2015, it was damn close. “Nothing to see here Sheeple … move along … just a little accident is
all … everything is fine.” Except of course when it isn’t.
And so, I’m calling on world governments
to immediately enact a world Holiday on the first Friday of October of every
year, to be called “Stupid Shit Day”; plenty of festivities in places like
Davos, Switzerland and Aspen, Colorado where LP executives can give speeches,
wine can get consumed, and hookers can make a living. Oh, the humanity!
I get up this morning and the entire
financial trading world is abuzz over the “shocking” developments in Cable;
except for me. I find this “rape” of Cable in the minutes before the Asian open
too convenient for a scumbag dealer community that maybe … just maybe … had to
get their greedy little fingers on some quick capital to make up for losses in
gold and government bonds from clients “all of a sudden” under water. Presto!! “Hey, I got an idea; let’s run a few yards
[billions] of Cable into stops and see what happens!”
When I think of the dealers and
liquidity providers in the Pacific Rim, and by default the Asian session, my
first thoughts are of the bar scene in the original ‘Star Wars’ movie.
QUESTION: “How many of these guys do you really trust?” SHORT ANSWER: “Not a damn one of ‘em.”
And lest you think the move in Cable was
bad enough in and of itself, let’s take a look at what the LP at ASSETS FX did
to the client base, shall we? First, the M1 showing the GBPUSD debacle.
Now, the institutional side of the
“coin” from Zero Hedge”.
Well, looky here, and ain’t this
interesting; a 620 PIP difference between the low BIDS, with of course, clients
at ASSETS FX getting the short end of the proverbial stick. Nice job LP, of
fucking over clients, to the tune of over 600 PIPS, for your own enrichment and
benefit. When the revolution eventually comes, I hope these guys swing from the
highest tree.
I’ve been saying for years, “don’t trade the Asian session”, and now
last night you got a pretty good preview of what can go wrong when the crooks
at the bar are running the show. Please, brokerage house managers and LP’s,
don’t insult my intelligence with “deep
liquidity” and “institutional
pricing” or my two favorites “tight
spreads & ECN STP [straight through processing]”. Just another reason
why I have practically given up trading anything in the FX arena since the
“blow ups” in USDCHF & NZDUSD before last night. There simply is no way you
can adjust your risk to avoid these FX train wrecks if you actively trade;
sooner or later, that bullet has your name on it, and it is an account killer
if you are on the wrong side; stops most likely always filled at the extreme by
the LP for their own benefit.
Remember, this is the same LP in GBPUSD
[Standard Financial which is Citibank] who refused to fill my limit sell order
in EURJPY, back in March, at my limit price of 121.175 when the market went to
121.270 BID within seconds from 121.120 before falling back to 121.08; I got
filled at 121.08. The response from the LP? “We
did our best; deal with it.” My response to the LP? “Fuck you if you ever think I’m trading through you again. Did your
best? How’s that possible when I see 121.27 BID as a high, then several other
bids before 121.08, and then ‘magically’ I get my fill at the bottom BID? You’re
either negligent, incompetent, or complete thieves, neither of which is
acceptable to me, so fuck off.” And that’s the last time I traded FX at
ASSETS FX in my own account. For managed money, at that time as some might
remember, we got the same treatment from the LP in GBPJPY in early April, and
that’s when I realized FX simply can’t be traded anymore; literally everything
is stacked against you.
Which brings us to today’s other shoe to
drop; the NFP stupidity. Nothing like a $10 per Oz. melt up screw job on a
nothing “fairy tale” report to make you want to turn the machines off.
Quite
frankly, I feel like Al Bundy and want no part of this shit today and could care less where they take
it; anything I attempt to do has been skewed to pieces by the FX GBPUSD debacle and the idiotic NFP report and I have no idea where my probabilities of success are. Instead, I’ve decided to celebrate “Stupid Shit Day” at the beach with the dog, and
of course the appropriate Vitamin C therapy. I’m sooooo outta here.
Have a great weekend everybody!
-vegas
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