This is a video summary of the Live Forex Trading Room session on October 29, 2007.

Today’s Summary, by Sunil Mangwani:

Mondays usually are slow days and we wait for the technicals to settle down before we think of following up with the last week’s trades or looking at intraday. But on Mondays we do look forward, as we get the technical setups for Gap Trading.

The gaps are not present on forex as much as other markets, as it is a continuous market, but on Mondays the market can open with a gap, and currencies will give you excellent setups. Gap trading techniques are very effective. Lets have a look at one of the currencies which gave us an excellent one today.

The NZD/USD gave us a gap, though not a very large one - usually the larger the gap, the larger the move. We wait for the market to come back down to fill the gap, and went in Short upon a Bearish Divergence, expecting the price to fill the gap, which it did. The gap turns into a kind of channel, and price found support at this level. A nice Short trade on the NZD/USD, without all that much effort, which is the main advantage of gap trading. (more…)

This is a video summary of the Live Forex Trading Room session on October 18, 2007.

Today’s Summary, by Sunil Mangwani:

There were no trades taken today, as the market was really not conducive to any sort of situations we were comfortable trading in. Instead, lets follow up with some of our previous trades that were in the running.

Lets start with our long term USD/JPY, which has gone wrong for our trade. We had been Long on the daily timeframe, based on the breakout of a Triangle Formation. The price did give us a decent move initially, due to whatever fundamental factors were in place, but has since made a turnaround. It went down and took out our trade. (more…)