Published in January 29th, 2010
I have received a few e-mails that show the writers believe I am now long the S&P.
This is not the case. I am awaiting for an entry bar and certain conditions before taking a long trade. The details are posted in the Forum-Twitter Free service.
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Published in January 29th, 2010
BarroMetrics Views: Intuition and the Trader
In my first Forum/Twitter post today, I wrote a short note on the strong feelings I have been experiencing since last night’s price action in the S&P and US$ Index.
Whenever such strong feelings occur, I take time away from the market: the reason for this is because I have […]
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Published in January 29th, 2010
The instruments I trade have been keying off the inverse correlation of the S&P and US $ (I use the DX as a proxy for the US$ crosses).
Yesterday the S&P provided a variety of buy signals and on my Barros Swings is still in an 18-day (monthly trend) uptrend. The DX setup as a potential […]
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Published in January 26th, 2010
BarroMetrics Views: An Answer to the Question from Julie
Julie asked:
I would be glad if you could answer me a question, when will your nr. 3 happen?
U.S. Government has pumped soo great amounts of money into bank market and banks still don’t want to release their money into circulation, so without that economy won’t be able […]
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Published in January 25th, 2010
BarroMetrics Views: Change of Behaviour
Today I received a number of e-mails following a successful presentation on the weekend sponsored by CMC. I normally ask for a critique of my talk - looking for negative feedback as a tool to improve the next time I give one.
Basically the e-mails revolved around one theme: how can I […]
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Published in January 22nd, 2010
BarroMetrics Views: The US$ 2010-01-21 (II)
Today, I am looking at the DX (US$ Index) from the technical perspective.
Figure 1 is a Monthly chart (Nearest Futures Month) of the DX (US$ Index). My preferred view is the DX is in process of completing either:
A 4-wave continuation triangle or
A 5-wave change in trend triangle.
If (1) is correct […]
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Published in January 22nd, 2010
BarroMetrics Views: The US$ 2010-01-21
Before we get into the blog, let me apologise for the haphazard updates this week. My new project is taking up inordinate amounts of time and with the travelling, I manage to throw out my schedule. I should be back to posting on a Mon to Fri basis next week.
Today I […]
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Published in January 20th, 2010
BarroMetrics Views: Do I Regret EURUSD Exit?
I received an e-mail just now asking if I regretted exiting the EURUSD at 1.4414 - given that it is at 1.4192 and I have not re-entered the trade.
Well at some level, I am sure there is some regret. But not enough for me to change my approach.
The fact […]
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Published in January 19th, 2010
BarroMetrics Views: Subjective Risk Management
In preparing for my talk on Risk Management sponsored by CMC Markets (see attachment: Art of Trading.pdf), it struck how important a role the subjective aspects are for Risk Management.
Our Vision and Goals set the scene for the driver of our Trading Rules (of which Trade Management forms a part; Trade […]
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Published in January 19th, 2010
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