This is a video summary of the Live Forex Trading Room session on October 19, 2007.

Today’s Summary, by Sunil Mangwani:

Just one confirmed trade taken today, but a few interesting points for discussion. Fundamentals are beginning to affect the forex market on a longer term basis - yen crosses, carry trades, interest rates, etc. The Dow Jones is having an effect on the yen crosses, the equity markets getting correlated… All these things have to be kept in a deeper perspective.

But we are technical traders - as soon as we find a setup, and it confirms our technical analysis, we go into a trade. More often than not, this works. We look for higher probability trades, with a greater chance of success.

On the GBP/JPY intraday, one of the favorites among the carry trades, we had a technical pattern of a Bullish Divergence, with price making a low and a lower low, Stochastics making initial low below the 20 level. When your second lower low on the price takes place, your stochastics do not have the momentum to carry forward to the oversold zone. This is a very aggressive divergence, signifying that a change of trend is due and a significant reversal could take place. (more…)