Friday, 5 February 2010

NFP DAY

A quick look at the charts and not a great deal has changed. AB CD measured moves have mostly been met in all pairs with Eur/Usd reaching the 1.3645 and the Usd/Chf through the 1.0730 level. Stocks and commodities  are still sliding as further concerns over the Eurozone economies emerge with Finland the latest country to be called out.

NFP is always a ridiculous day to trade given that the numbers are an absolute lotto, and after yesterdays chaos its going  to  be  even  harder today. Main plan of action will be to manage what we have. So far we have banked 1/2 profit on all trades and I will  look to possibly  close another 1/4 on an unfavourable NFP outcome. Technically, great damage has been done, so for  the  moment I will stay with the trend and allow  the  last 1/4 to run.

Overnight  just to add  to  yesterdays fun we had our ol mates  at  the  SNB  finally  show  up  after being antagonised when traders  pushed the  pair  under 1.4600 triggering  stops. Although I did not mention it here yesterday, I did leave a limit order to buy at 1.4575 ( which was the level of the first intervention in March of last yesr) with a 1.4525 stop. the pair jumped to as high as 1.4870  before  falling  back toward 1.4700. I will  take 1/2 off  at 1.4750 with  the  stop  at  1.4620.

More  a  lil  later as we get closer to the  number

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yeah, buying eur chf there was a must spinner