by Rafael Rosa on August 4, 2010
Your humble blogger has a post up at the Stocktwits FX Blog. Check it out! Euromesia: Decoupling is mainstream, again. The post talks about the recent Euro-US dollar rally. Technorati Tags: Currency Trading, decoupling, dollar crisis, eur/usd, euro rally
by Rafael Rosa on April 26, 2010
Last week was a great week. I racked up 619 pips (highest tracked-week yet) on light trading. Some of the profits came from short Yen positions held over the weekend. A substantial part of profits also came from positions on the Canadian Dollar. Mid week I had recommended looking at the Canadian crosses for possible [...]
by Rafael Rosa on April 15, 2010
Yes, mistakes were made. On a realized basis, I’m roughly flat for the week. While my recent trades have worked out well, the EUR/USD and EUR/JPY (x2) trades that were held over the weekend just killed me. As mentioned in the last intraday weekly review, it was the wrong decision to keep them. The short [...]
by Rafael Rosa on April 13, 2010
Alright, I made a bad decision in keeping my EUR/USD and EUR/JPY shorts over the weekend. The odds of an “agreement” on the Greek bailout was big and I knew it. The only reason I kept the positions is because they were very small (And we’ve been told this before). Nevertheless, I could have put [...]
by Rafael Rosa on April 9, 2010
The Yen is all over the place these days. The Greece issue has created quite some volatility as risk-aversion snaps back and forth from the market. All in all, more volatility means more trade opportunities. The massive selling of the EUR/JPY and GBP/JPY crosses (and the other Yen crosses too) took a pause during the [...]