Here we are on the Monday right after the British Pound dove off a steep cliff. In addition, London’s time changed so that London open does not correspond with the normal London open for US traders, that goes back to normal Sunday when US times change as well. After such a massive move, we found ourselves in a bit of a range, playing ping pong between support and resistance throughout the first trading day of the week. Likely the best approach for extracting pips during this London session was going to be taking shots right off the tops and bottoms of these definable ranges using shorter term time frame clues ‘Around’ these zones, such as higher low’s or lower high’s. In this video I highlight one such trade plan that we executed in the room together involving the GBP/JPY. We identified a good deal of overlapping resistance around the 150.00 area on multiple time frames, then simply planned a low risk high reward short trade plan if and only IF we got a lower high to work with off this area, using a short term chart to zoom in. Sure enough it presented itself on a 2minute chart, a Lower High, with just 15 pips or so risk (very low risk on GBP/JPY), and a reward likely of 60-70 pips it was too hard to resist. As it were this trade dropped to around 40ish pip profit before pulling back near to entry for one final chance to get in or reload it, then fell for the remainder of the range/scalp trade right to our rising trend line. Hey take what you can get, we were ‘Scraping’ for our pips today, so a 60 pip trade was considered a Monster! =). Hopefully NY will kick it up a notch. FXBootcamp London Currency Coach- Christian Stephens
FOREX VIDEO - London Session Review - October 26, 2009
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