Action Insight Mid-Day Report

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Mid-Day Report: Sterling Surges as Sentence Voted for Hike, Canadian Dollar Lower on Retail Sales Disappointment

Sterling rises sharply today as BoE minutes showed that policy Sentence voted for a 25bps hike in last meeting. The minutes revealed that the Committee voted 7-1 to keep the bank rate unchanged at 0.5%. This was the first time in almost 2 years that a rate hike was proposed.

Action Insight Daily Report

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Daily Report: Dollar Maintains Post FOMC Losses

Dollar remains soft in Asian and maintains post-FOMC losses against major currencies. Asian markets are generally higher on news of resignation of Australian's PM Kevin Rudd but gains are mild so far. New Zealand dollar is the better performer in a quiet market today as supported by solid data which showed GDP rose 0.6% qoq, 1.9% yoy in Q1. Other data released today saw Japanese trade surplus narrowed to JPY 416b in May, corporate service price index dropped -0.8% mom in May. Focus will turn to durable goods orders and jobless claims from US.

BIG PLAYERS SEE ONLY BIG NUMBERS

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

I am typing this from my pc. It a bit of a mess now, the new house still needs a little work and I am not feeling well lately. Maybe its the change in climate.

This week I am going to talk about numbers only. Forex is after all based on numbers. Example, I have a long position on GBPUSD @ 1.4700 with a profit of 320 pips at the moment and still holding.

What I am going to say is big players only see big number. The do not see the last 2 digit. The last 2 digit is for scalpers. Big players only see the 1st 3 or 4 digit only. So if a bank wants to buy or hedge a currency they will give an instruction to buy at 1.47. Thats it. Simple yet people fails to see it.

So what happens at 1.47? The price will bounce of or hover around it but things arent always what they appear to be. What happen is price will have a range between 1.46 - 1.48. That is almost 200 pips wide range. Imagine what happen to your 50 or 100 pip SL?? Now you know why people lose money even though they have the right direction.

These big players have big money they dont mind to stand few hundreds negative pips coz in the end they will profit big time. What they do is they will have a standing order to trade at certain level. Because the total amount of order, the market cannot fill the order in 1 transaction and so price will hover or bounce of a certain level. This is where double top or bottom appear. Behind it is the action of filling orders by these big players.

Example EJ currently have a top of 1.34 and a bottom of 1.30. Big players are playing the game here. At the moment EJ is climbing and there is a big possibility that it will reach 1.34 again. I have a standing order to buy EJ at 1.30. If it hits there is a very big chance for 400 pips gain. Only time will tell.



Attach is a chart of GBPUSD. If you look carefully, you can see my actual entry point. I will explain the rest of the chart in due time.